Associate Director – Business Transformation

We’re looking for agile, high-performing talent with a background and experience in leading large-scale transformation programs in Finance to join our Transformation CoE team based in our new and vibrant Global Capability Centre (GCC) in Bengaluru. This team works with people across our various functions & businesses globally to drive our enterprise initiatives to enable business outcomes, performance, and transformation.

We are looking for proven transformation specialists with the ambition and capability to build a world-class Transformation CoE function.  You will bring your expertise, creativity, and transformation capabilities to solve complex business challenges, and possess strong influencing and people skills to engage and inspire diverse global teams to deliver real business value.

As part of a modern transformation function that delivers world-class service, you’ll have the opportunity to develop your skills to progress in your career while working in a diverse and culturally rich environment with some of the best and brightest in the field.

You will be a trusted advisor to stakeholders. You will be shaping and executing their business transformation agendas. You will help them navigate their largest strategic initiatives and most critical problems at the intersection of business and technology, including digital disruption, enterprise transformation and innovation, global operating models, sustainability, value management, and more

This role will allow YOU to deliver business outcomes to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following.

• Understanding the business landscape and priorities to define critical strengths and improvement areas.
• Framing complex problems and developing recommendations based on our business knowledge and analysis.
• Ownership in translating recommendations into actionable roadmaps.
• Build strong credibility and relationships at senior levels based on exceptional outcomes, effective communication, compelling storylines, and a positive impact
• Responsible for assessing requirements, detailed planning and delivery of the program activities and outcomes, reporting progress against plan, and managing risks and issues in close collaboration with the assigned Program lead and broader project team.
• Creating and executing the program-related action plan
• Managing a complex stakeholder landscape, where stakeholders are engaged effectively to ensure understanding, buying and a smooth path for project delivery; engagement requirements may include third-party vendors and business services hubs
• Ensuring that the centrally defined transformation methodology and tools are applied appropriately across the programs and/or are modified as appropriate
• Executing business readiness activities to ensure timely go-lives
• Guide project teams in selecting appropriate technology and frameworks
• Identify potential project risks related to implementation and develop mitigation strategies.
• Monitor and address issues that could impact project timelines or outcomes
• Implement governance reviews and quality assurance

We are looking for professionals with these skills to achieve our goals. If you have them, we would like to speak to you.

• 15 to 20 years of relevant work experience
• Bachelor's Degree required; MBA from Tier 1 preferred
• Preference will be given to candidates with prior client-facing global consulting experience in Big4s or MBBs
• Proven track record of delivering transformational change on multiple large-scale programmes in Finance
• Brings fine leadership skills to deliver business impact while ensuring teams are fully motivated and engaged
• Proven ability to adapt to the ever-changing needs of the business by fearlessly tackling complex problems and partnering to run portfolios, all at the same time
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management, (e.g., influence without authority)
• Proven problem-solving and negotiation capabilities along with a process-focused perspective.
• Problem-solving mindset with impactful storylining and presentation skills
• Comfortable working in a matrix hybrid environment, dealing with ambiguity

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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