# Associate Director, Product Owner - Development & Integration

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Associate Director, Product Owner - Development & Integration is responsible for maximising the value of their HR Product portfolio by translating business needs into a prioritised backlog and leading delivery across the HR product lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

- Partner with business stakeholders to understand functional needs and define product outcomes

- 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 Engineers, Architects, and Testers to ensure solutions are fit-for-purpose, secure, compliant, supportable, and aligned to architectural standards

- 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 required security controls, risk assessments, data handling policies, and regulated change processes

- Support Solution Architects to assess design options and manage cross-Product dependencies

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

- Contribute to the improvement of delivery practices within the Product

- Lead your team in using approved AI tools to improve productivity and ways of working

Required Skills & Qualifications:

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

- 15 to 19 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 and using iterative planning, delivery, and release practices

This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2–3 days per week in the office.

## Skills

### Required
- Automation
- Cross-Functional Teamwork
- Design Thinking
- Enterprise Application
- Enterprise Systems Integration
- Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)
- Integration Engineering
- Microarchitecture
- Microservices Architecture
- Phenom (Platform)
- Product Strategies
- SAP SuccessFactors
- Services Management
- Technical Designs
- Workday Extend Development
- Workday HCM

### Nice to have
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Skilled in coaching and guiding Associate Product Owners 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

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