Global Head of Lab Systems & Automation
Company: GlaxoSmithKline
Location: Cambridge
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
Site Name: USA - Massachusetts - Cambridge, Belgium-Rixensart,
Italy - SienaPosted Date: Aug 20 2024This role could be based in
Rixensart Belgium, Siena Italy or Cambridge, MA US and requires a 3
day minimum on-site presence.The Global Head of Lab Systems &
Automation is accountable for the strategy and global end-to-end
lifecycle management of Vaccines R&D laboratory computerized
systems, including robotics and automation solutions. This role
provides strong leadership, strategic direction, and focus to
implement and maintain automated and/or computerized systems &
applications in an ever-changing environment in terms of GSK
Vaccines' growth profile, laboratory science innovation, regulatory
requirements, and quality/EHS standards.The Global Head of Lab
Systems & Automation plays a pivotal role in supporting the
organization in generating high quality structured data to drive
our R&D projects forward. This role is focused on strong
collaboration between Tech, Digital & Data, and Quality - applying
business acumen, deep technical experience in laboratory
instrumentation & automation, and process knowledge to drive
innovative, pragmatic solutions for Vaccines R&D Scientists.The
Global Head of Lab Systems & Automation will act as the Operational
Technology (OT) Officer for Vaccines R&D ensuring that OT risk
is appropriately assessed, prioritized, and mitigated across
Vaccines R&D. This role will ensure that centrally defined OT
security standards and controls are appropriately considered and
adopted / adapted in the labs and is accountable for OT
cybersecurity controls and compliance.Key Responsibilities:This
role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to
progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the
following.Leadership
- With strategic vision, guides the Lab Systems & Automation
organization, partners, and customers to deliver innovative
solutions for Vaccines R&D's Scientists. Promote advancement of
automation systems through a focus on automation innovation to
drive scientific/business process improvement and the generation of
high-quality structured data.
- Leads country-based Lab Systems and Automation teams ensuring
business-as-usual lifecycle management support for Vaccines R&D
lab systems; appropriate planning, resourcing, and successful
execution of multiple operational/innovation projects conducted in
parallel with business-as-usual operations.
- Drive employee engagement within the global Lab Systems &
Automation team with emphasis on people development, enriching
roles, effective recognition, and open & honest conversations.
- Play a leadership role to ensure standards, policies, and
procedures are fit-for-purpose (e.g. Computer System Validation,
Data Integrity, OT design / cybersecurity risk assessments &
mitigations).Stakeholder Management
- Work in partnership with a broad range of stakeholder groups
including the R&D scientific functions as well as Tech,
Computer System Validation, and Quality to define and implement
fit-for-purpose system solutions to optimize the value of lab
equipment and the productivity of Scientists.
- Proactively define lab automation technology standards,
identify process improvement/cost saving opportunities, and
accelerate generation of scientific results.
- Application of agile methodology to quickly respond and deliver
in a fast pace changing environment.
- Manage, coordinate, supervise external partners throughput the
entire systems lifecycle.
- Maximizing investment value for GSK while negotiating with
external partners.
- Liaise with other GSK sites / orgs as well as external
companies on benchmarks and best practices.
- Liaises with stakeholders across the Vaccines R&D sites
(Belgium, Italy, US) and with Pharma R&D to promote leveraging
of technology, systems/applications, and automated solutions
between functions and sites.OT Officer responsibilities
- Vaccines R&D representative at the R&D OT Operations
Forum and Data Governance Risk Council
- OT Cybersecurity Risk Assessment and Compensation Process:
- Responsible for carrying out risk assessments with respect to
OT cybersecurity across the business area and managing the risk
compensation process.
- Understand new threats, the potential for business impact and
how GSK will respond via our cybersecurity standards and
controls.
- Appropriate risk escalation of any issues and exceptions in
accordance with the R&D OT Cybersecurity escalation process
- Risk Mitigation:
- Feed critical deliverables into VxRD Digital and Data Strategy
to drive investment
- Collaborate with R&D Digital & Tech and Central Tech,
including the Cybersecurity Office (CSO), and Global Products &
Technology (GP&T) stakeholders to ensure the controls proposed
to mitigate risks are appropriate for the business area, correctly
implemented and adopted consistently.
- Review and approval of Firewall (FW) rules, reference
architecture, VLAN strategy and high-level strategy for local
deployment.
- Understand and action on OT vulnerabilities and crisis
management, OT alerts, OT responses and recovery processes
- Cybersecurity Technical expertise and Business Analysis:
- Actively participate in and provide business input into the
design, documentation, implementation and continued support of OT
cybersecurity standards and associated tools (e.g., access
management tool) and controls, including maintenance of the
controls and their associated documentation post deployment.
- In collaboration with GSK Tech, input into the design and
documentation for Network Segmentation for the business area.
- Application of GSK's cybersecurity standards is maintained
across the laboratory environment (e.g. robust system inventory
maintenance) and critical risks are escalated for remediation to
the Risk Management Board and the Capital Allocation process.
- Liaise with business line leaders, science, and engineering
SMEs within the business area, in making cybersecurity
decisions.
- The role holder will play an active role in the OT Change
Advisory Board (CAB) ensuring the business area's requirements and
deliverables are adequately represented. This includes
responsibility for review and approval of firewall (FW) rules, OT
architecture, VLAN strategy and local deployment strategy.Why
you?Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with
these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Science, Engineering,
Information Technology or related discipline
- 7+ years operational experience managing lab systems in
validated and non-validated environments
- 3+ years line manager experience leading large multi-site and
global teams
- Experience with Stakeholder management - applying technical
knowledge and lab systems
- Experience partnering with the Tech organization to drive
fit-for-purpose system solutions and reliable provision of service
to Vaccines R&DPreferred Qualifications:If you have the
following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Masters, PhD or MBA, or post-graduate professional
qualification in Business or Science, Engineering, Information
Technology related discipline
- Ability to think strategically and act with a high level of
integrity to establish effective plans of action to deal with
conflicting issues in a manner consistent with GSK's global
requirements
- Ability to work with an agile methodology to quickly respond
and deliver in a dynamic environment.
- Change management strategies and implementation
- Large technical program implementation experience
- Demonstrated ability, when working under pressure, to
decisively adjust a course of action in a rapidly changing and
highly uncertain environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication with strong
presentation skills
- Problem solving abilities suitable for handling the highly
complex issues associated with cross organizational boundaries
- Decision making and application of risk management
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