Job Description

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Individual Human Data (IHD) Governance Leader
The Individual Human Data (IHD) Governance Leader will play a pivotal role in shaping and advancing robust enterprise-wide governance frameworks to facilitate compliant, efficient, and scalable access to individual human data (IHD) across R&D. This position is responsible for embedding automated & adaptive governance within data workflows, ensuring the highest privacy, legal, and ethical standards are consistently met, whilst accelerating the availability of data to drive research and innovation. The successful candidate will harness advanced governance technologies and translate complex regulatory requirements into practical, actionable solutions. By safeguarding data integrity and building trust, the IHD Governance Leader will underpin GSK's strategic priorities, ensuring responsible, audit-ready data use at scale and supporting timely, informed decision-making across all therapeutic areas.
In this role you will:

• Lead the development and evolution of enterprise-wide governance frameworks aligning data use with business strategy, regulatory requirements, and technology capabilities.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across R&D, Legal, and Tech to embed governance-by-design into data workflows and platforms.
• Coordinate the implementation of advanced governance technologies to enable scalable, compliant access to individual human data (IHD).
• Support strategic decision-making by ensuring data governance practices enable timely, trusted, and ethical data use across therapeutic areas.
• Lead audit readiness and risk mitigation efforts by ensuring data workflows are transparent, traceable, and aligned with global standards.
• Champion data stewardship principles by embedding privacy, ethics, and quality into enterprise data workflows and platforms.

Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Management, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience as a strategic and innovative leader in automated and adaptive data governance, with a deep understanding of the complexities of IHD in a regulated R&D environment.
• Strong track record of collaborating with senior stakeholders across Legal, Tech, and R&D to embed governance-by-design into data workflows and platforms.
• Experience leading or supporting the implementation of advanced governance technologies to enable scalable, compliant access to IHD.
• Proven ability to drive audit readiness and risk mitigation, ensuring transparency, traceability, and alignment with global standards.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Knowledge of, and experience with, agile workflow.
• Demonstrated ability of managing cross-function stakeholders across seniority levels.

Closing Date for Applications - 10th November (midnight GMT)
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At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people's lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients' needs and have the highest probability of success. We're uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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