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We are seeking an exceptional and ambitious scientific leader to serve as Senior Director of Translational Data Sciences. This individual will define and drive our translational data strategy across the continuum from disease biology to clinical readout, integrating multi-omics platforms with AI-driven analytics to bridge the gap between mechanistic discovery and therapeutic decision-making.
Job Responsibility:
Scientific Strategy: Develop and execute the Translational Data Sciences strategy, with accountability for portfolio-level outcomes across multiple therapeutic areas including respiratory, renal, hepatology, and immune-mediated disease
Data Sciences and AI: Leverage the potential of data sciences for pipeline progress through team leadership, collaboration across Translational & Developmental Sciences and application across therapy areas and the broader organisations across GSK including R&D Technologies and AIML
Partnership & Alliance Leadership: Establish and maintain high-value partnerships with leading academic laboratories, companies, and international consortia
Translational Integration: Work directly with R&D leadership to align computational strategy with clinical development priorities
Team Leadership: Build and mentor an interdisciplinary team of computational biologists, AI/ML engineers, and clinician-scientists and wet-lab scientists
Scientific Visibility: Contribute to the organisation's external positioning through publications, conference presentations, and academic collaborations
Requirements:
Physical sciences (Maths, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering etc) or Biological sciences (Biology, Biochemistry, Bioengineering etc) undergraduate degree or Medical degree
PhD in data science, computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics, or a closely related discipline
Extensive experience spanning academic and industrial drug discovery environments, with a demonstrable record of leading high-impact computational biology programmes from conception through to application to drug discovery or development challenges
Prior line management experience and experience building and leading interdisciplinary teams across computational, experimental, and translational disciplines in both academic and industrial settings
Demonstrated experience structuring and managing strategic partnerships with academic institutions and companies, including contribution to alliance governance
Familiarity with the translational interface between target biology and clinical development
experience with adaptive clinical trial design and biomarker-driven patient stratification is highly desirable
Experience presenting to executive leadership, external partners, and international scientific audiences
Nice to have:
Expert command of spatial transcriptomics platforms and single-cell multi-omics analysis
Deep expertise across the full spectrum of modern ML for biology: graph neural networks, Bayesian causal inference, topological data analysis, deep generative models (VAEs, diffusion models, GANs), and reinforcement learning, applied to biological discovery problems
Proven ability to design and deliver agentic AI systems integrating large language model APIs, generative AI frameworks, and analysis workflows for automated biological insight generation