Director, Data Policy – Standard Procedures Lead
GSK
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Waltham • Massachusetts • Pennsylvania • United States
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Salary
💰 $174,900 - $291,500 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Set the vision for data policy and standards as a core governance product that underpins R&D digital transformation, grounded in regulatory rigor (GxP, GDPR, HIPAA) and designed for usability and scale.
- Own the end‑to‑end policy lifecycle, from user research and design through codification, automation, rollout, and continuous improvement.
- Modernise policy delivery by operationalising policy‑as‑code and embedding standards directly into platforms, workflows, and decision points across R&D.
- Act as the central policy hub within a federated (hub‑and‑spoke) governance model—setting guardrails, patterns, and assurance while enabling domains to move fast locally.
- Champion user‑centric policy design, partnering with data owners, stewards, engineers, and scientists to reduce ambiguity and friction in real‑world usage.
- Prioritise and manage a transparent policy backlog, applying product management techniques (value vs effort, MVPs, user stories) to deliver the highest impact first.
- Ensure compliance, ethics, and risk management by proactively identifying gaps, addressing inconsistencies, and escalating issues where needed.
- Measure and communicate impact, defining KPIs for adoption, effectiveness, and risk reduction, and translating governance outcomes into business value.
- Continuously scan for innovation, bringing emerging best practices in governance, knowledge management, and automation into the policy ecosystem.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Management, Mathematics, Statistics, Biostatistics, or a related field.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities.
- Strong leadership, team management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to drive continuous improvement, innovation and manage complex data projects.
- Broad experience in clinical development processes and R&D data lifecycle.
- Proven experience of policy lifecycle management and governance operating models
- Demonstrated experience operating in matrix (hub and spoke) organizational structures, working with policy development, quality systems or standards frameworks within regulated environments
- Proven capability to translate complex technical or regulatory requirements into clear and actionable policies or procedures
- Proven experience of GxP, data privacy, and regulatory compliance requirements (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
Benefits
- health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
- retirement benefits
- paid holidays
- vacation
- paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data policypolicy lifecycle managementpolicy-as-codedata managementregulatory compliancecontinuous improvementdata projectsclinical development processesgovernance operating modelsKPI definition
Soft Skills
communicationstakeholder engagementleadershipteam managementinnovationuser-centric designtransparencyproblem-solvingcollaborationproject management