# Associate Director - Product Owner, Engineering, EHS & Sustainability

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Location**: Bengaluru, Luxor North Tower
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK's internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.

The Associate Director - Product Owner, Engineering, EHS & Sustainability is responsible for maximising the value of a specific Product by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the product lifecycle.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs, refine requirements, and define product outcomes that support business priorities.

- Co-create the product vision and roadmap with the business and own the value case.

- Own and manage the Product backlog, ensuring requirements are well-defined and supported by minimum data inputs.

- Make prioritisation decisions for the Product backlog based on value, cost, risk, business continuity, and resource capacity.

- Lead the Product team's delivery activities, guiding Product Analysts and working with Engineers, Architects, and Testers.

- Drive operational readiness by applying a delivery readiness checklist.

- Define and maintain the Product performance dashboard, tracking adoption, cycle time/throughput, stability/defects, UX signals, and support effort.

- Ensure product changes follow required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes.

- Shape design trade-offs with Solution Architects, and scout emerging capability on the product platforms.

- Act as an escalation point for the Product team and business users on functional product issues.

- Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product.

- Own and prioritise the AI product backlog, translating Engineering, EHS and Sustainability needs into clear AI use cases.

- Define the business value and success measures for AI use cases.

- Lead AI-enabled product delivery across business stakeholders, engineers, architects, data specialists, security, quality and third-party providers.

- Ensure responsible and compliant use of AI.

- Monitor AI product performance after release, using operational metrics, user feedback and evaluation results to identify improvement priorities.

**Basic qualifications:**

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Information Technology, or Engineering), or equivalent experience.

- Typically 5+ years of experience working in product delivery, digital solutions, business systems, or process-led technology roles.

- Proven experience defining and prioritising functional requirements and managing a product backlog.

- Experience working directly with business stakeholders to translate needs into feasible, value-led technology changes.

- Demonstrated ability to make prioritisation decisions based on business value, process impact, risk, cost, and technology constraints.

- Experience leading delivery teams or analysts through the product lifecycle.

- Familiarity with enterprise governance requirements.

- Exposure to continuous improvement approaches.

- Experience working within agile delivery environments.

- Experience owning or delivering an AI, Generative AI, advanced analytics or intelligent automation product.

**Preferred qualifications:**

- Strong communication and influencing skills.

- Skilled in coaching and guiding Product Analysts and delivery team members.

- Able to interpret business processes, user feedback, and operational data.

- Comfortable working within structured governance, security, and data protection requirements.

- Strong analytical mindset.

- AI product management.

- Generative AI understanding.

- AI evaluation.

- Responsible AI and risk management.

- Stakeholder communication.

## Skills

### Required
- Agile Methodology
- Backlogs
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Process Diagrams
- Product Strategies
- Project Management
- Requirements Gathering
- Services Management
- Software Development
- User Experience (UX)
- User Research
- User Story

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