# Head of Data and Technology Strategy

**Company**: ViiV Healthcare (GSK)
**Location**: Durham, NC
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ViiV Healthcare, a global specialty HIV company, is seeking a Head of Data and Technology Strategy. This senior strategic leadership role is accountable for defining how data, technology, AI, and automation will accelerate ViiV R&D priorities across Discovery, Development, Regulatory, CMC, and portfolio decision-making.

The successful candidate will be able to operate through ambiguity, connect scientific and technical perspectives, simplify complex choices, and build alignment across senior stakeholders while maintaining clear ownership, pace, governance, and accountability.

Responsibilities include:

- Setting, reviewing, and owning the prioritization of the ViiV R&D data, technology, AI, and automation portfolio

- Leading the development and execution of an integrated ViiV R&D capability, portfolio, and investment strategy for data, technology, AI, and automation

- Translating R&D priorities into a sequenced, multi-year capability and investment roadmap

- Partnering with R&D leaders to identify and prioritize opportunities for technology to improve speed, quality, productivity, or decision-making

- Providing strategic sponsorship and integrated portfolio oversight for the R&D technology portfolio

- Representing and advocating for ViiV R&D at portfolio and sponsorship level within GSK R&D technology strategy, governance, and platform investment

- Aligning clear governance and decision rights across ViiV R&D, ViiV Digital & Technology, and GSK R&D and GSK R&D Technology

- Deciding build, buy, partner, or fast-follow pathways on the basis of a jointly governed evaluation

- Securing and allocating funding for the R&D technology portfolio

- Defining the R&D data strategy and business priorities required to improve access to trusted, contextualized, and reusable data

- Ensuring the implementation of the responsible application of AI and advanced analytics across R&D

- Developing KPIs, scorecards, and value-realization measures to track portfolio progress, technology delivery progress, adoption, benefits, risks, and strategic alignment

- Building productive partnerships with internal technology organizations, CROs, external providers, biotechnology companies, and academic collaborators

- Leading, developing, and inspiring a high-performing, lean team and matrixed network

- Creating clear, compelling communications that explain the R&D data and technology strategy, priorities, choices, and value to senior internal and external stakeholders

Requirements:

- Master's degree in Life Sciences, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or Information Technology

- 12+ years' experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare technology, or life-sciences consulting

- Experience in pharmaceutical R&D and the application of data, digital platforms, analytics, AI, and automation across scientific and development workflows

- Experience defining and executing enterprise or business-unit data, digital, technology, or AI strategies and multi-year investment plans

- Experience translating business and scientific priorities to advise on investment choices, prioritization decisions, and measurable outcomes

- Experience collaborating with Technology functions to ensure products and programs shipped reflect technical feasibility

- Experience prioritizing a portfolio under real funding and capacity constraint

- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives across business, scientific, data, and technology organizations in a global matrix

- Experience working with senior stakeholders, establishing governance and decision rights, and mobilizing partners without relying on direct authority

- Experience deciding build, buy, or partner decisions

- Experience with risk assessment and balancing innovation, pace, value, feasibility, and control requirements

- Experience with communicating scientific and technical concepts into decisions, actions, and executive communications

- Experience building teams and developing capabilities across direct reports and matrixed networks

## Skills

### Required
- Life Sciences
- Data Science
- Computer Science
- Engineering
- Information Technology
- pharmaceutical R&D
- data analysis
- digital platforms
- analytics
- AI
- automation

### Nice to have
- PhD
- PharmD
- MBA
- strategic consultancy experience

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