Associate Director - Senior Program Manager (M&A)

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Lead complex M&A carve-out, separation, integration and transformation programmes across multiple functions, translating strategic objectives into clear, measurable outcomes and sustainable business value. Provide end-to-end leadership across pre-deal, sign-to-close and post-close phases, ensuring operational readiness, business continuity, effective execution and delivery of deal value.

Establish integrated transformation plans, governance, priorities and milestones, aligning senior stakeholders around critical value drivers and enabling disciplined decisions on technology, investment and resource allocation. Identify and proactively manage execution risks, dependencies and opportunities across the programme.

Build an agile, collaborative and innovation-led environment that enables teams to navigate ambiguity, adapt rapidly and deliver at pace. Partner with cross-functional leaders to embed new operating models, realise synergies, drive sustainable performance improvements and ensure transformation outcomes are fully integrated into the business.

Lead proactive stakeholder engagement and communications, ensuring clear, timely and consistent messaging on programme objectives, progress, risks, decisions and business impacts.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex M&A carve-out, separation, integration, and transformation programmes across multiple functions.

• Own end-to-end transaction execution from pre-deal through sign-to-close and post-close delivery.

• Develop and execute integrated transformation plans aligned to strategic objectives, milestones and value drivers.

• Drive senior stakeholder alignment and engagement, ensuring accountability, collaboration and informed decision-making.

• Lead programme communications, delivering clear and consistent messaging across executive, functional and broader stakeholder groups.

• Establish robust governance, reporting and decision-making frameworks to maintain delivery momentum and transparency.

• Drive prioritisation, technology and resource allocation to maximise execution and value.

• Proactively manage risks, dependencies and critical issues, protecting business continuity and delivery outcomes.

• Lead operating model, organisational and business change, ensuring effective implementation and adoption.

• Build an agile, high-performing and innovation-led culture capable of delivering through ambiguity and change.

• Embed transformation outcomes into business-as-usual operations, ensuring benefits realisation and long-term sustainability.

• Lead data disposition strategy across structured and unstructured sources including ERP datasets driving data governance, tooling, automation throughout M&A lifecycle.  

 Knowledge / Previous Experience Required

Education & Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Programme management certifications desirable (e.g., Managing Successful Programmes, PMI Program Management Professional, PRINCE2 or SAFe).

Area of Specialisation

• Large-scale technology transformation and merger, acquisition and separation delivery, covering due diligence, Day One readiness and transition arrangements.
• Expertise in enterprise transformation, programme governance, stakeholder management, executive communications & organisational change.

Job-Related Experience

• Minimum 10 years’ relevant professional experience, including significant experience in M&A integration, separation, carve-out, due diligence, data disposition or post-deal value realisation.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience leading complex, multi-workstream programmes, with demonstrated responsibility for governance, risk management, dependencies and delivery.
• Demonstrable experience of managing and influencing senior/executive stakeholders across complex programmes, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated ability to apply structured problem-solving, data disposition and analytics to support business decisions and improve programme outcomes; experience using GenAI or similar emerging technologies is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience working across multiple functions, geographies or distributed teams, with the flexibility to travel in line with business requirements.

Desirable

• Full M&A Lifecycle Experience – Experience across multiple stages of the M&A lifecycle, including due diligence, sign-to-close, Day 1 readiness, integration, carve-out, separation and post-deal value realisation.
• Cross-Functional Integration Experience – Experience delivering complex integration or separation programmes across multiple business functions, including Technology/IT, Finance, HR, R&D, Commercial or Supply Chain.
• TSA & Transition Management – Demonstrated experience in the design, structuring, governance and execution of Transition Service Agreements (TSAs).
• Consulting & Transformation Experience – Previous experience in management consulting, strategy, operations or large-scale business transformation within complex or global organisations.
• Digital, Data & GenAI Capability – Experience using data, analytics, automation or GenAI-enabled tools to improve programme delivery, generate insights and support decision-making.
• 5 or more International M&A deals experience – Experience delivering cross-border transactions, particularly across US and EMEA markets, and working effectively with geographically distributed teams.
• Led data disposition and M&A data strategy across structured, unstructured environments, including ERP datasets, leveraging automation, AI, and technology tooling to accelerate data discovery, classification, governance, retention, separation, and compliant disposal.

 

Skills

Agile Methodology, Agile Project Management, Change Management, Compliance Risk Management, Delivery Management, Financial Budgeting, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), KPI Analysis, Problem Solving, Program Management, Project Management, Resource Management, Shareholder Communications

 

 

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.

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