Director, Onyx Enablement - Boston - 1925 GlaxoSmithKline LLC

    1925 GlaxoSmithKline LLC
    1925 GlaxoSmithKline LLC Boston

    5 hours ago

    Full time
    Description

    Director, Onyx Enablement

    Business Introduction

    At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Tech organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and tech delivery leadership, application and data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

  • Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on "data mechanics"

  • Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent

  • Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

  • Building data and prediction powered ways of working that accelerate GSK Research team's ability to find new drugs and vaccines

    • Position Summary

    We are looking for a Director, Onyx Enablement who will report to the Senior Director, Onyx Portfolio Management in a Chief-of-Staff capacity to enable operational discipline within the Onyx organization. This role is for a credible leader who is expected to build strong relationships with the Onyx Engineering, Product, Program, and Quality leads, R&D stakeholders, and Enterprise partners such as Recruitment, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, RD&DT Portfolio, Real Estate & Facilities, and others.

    An excellent candidate should combine their strong operational leadership with exceptional cross-functional coordination skills, and be capable of building and running the core operational backbone of a complex engineering organization. This individual should have deep experience in procurement and vendor management, financial planning and forecasting, recruiting operations, and facilities coordination, with a demonstrated ability to establish scalable processes and governance structures. They must excel at navigating senior stakeholders, managing organizational cadences, and translating strategic objectives into actionable operational plans. The ideal candidate brings a track record of driving clarity, predictability, and efficiency across diverse teams, supported by strong analytical skills and a disciplined, metrics-driven approach to organizational performance.

    Key Responsibilities
    This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

  • Develop and manage a comprehensive enablement and operational framework for Onyx, ensuring it is consistenly applied across all Onyx teams.

  • Partner with Procurement to drive procurement operations, including vendor selection, procurement strategy, contract execution, contract lifecycle management, and vendor performance tracking and reporting.

  • Partner with Recruiting to manage hiring pipelines, coordinate interview logistics, accelerate onboarding, and ensure staffing plans align with organizational needs.

  • Collaborate closely with Tech and R&D Finance to manage budgets, track and forecast spend, provide financial visibility, and ensure alignment to annual and quarterly budget targets (both OPEX and CAPEX).

  • Coordinate with Real Estate and Facilities to manage Onyx's physical office footprint, including space allocation, operational readiness, and ongoing site support.

  • Serve as the primary liaison to the central RDDT Portfolio team, managing intake, routing, prioritization, and follow-up on organizational requests.

  • Lead and orchestrate organization-wide cadences and governance, including Townhalls, quarterly business reviews, stakeholder updates, and cross-functional planning cycles.

  • Establish and track organization-level objectives, KPIs, and operational metrics; create reporting mechanisms and dashboards to measure operational performance, health, and delivery effectiveness.

  • Identify and drive continuous improvement opportunities across operational workflows to enhance efficiency, predictability, and organizational scalability.


    • Why You?

    Qualification, Skills & Experience:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

  • Strong job-related experience with an established track record of Enablement, Strategy or Operations for technology teams.

  • Experience with an Engineering Organization is highly preferred.

  • Strong communication and concise language skills. Self-starter biased towards action. Proven ability to manage upwards and influence senior stakeholders.

  • Change agent with strong leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead without authority, motivate, challenge the status quo, and deliver sustainable business improvements. 

  • Flexible thinking, ability to manage complexity and interpret strategy into pragmatic best practice deliverables

  • Familiarity with project and risk management principles.

  • Ability to adapt, work under uncertainty and accommodate flexible work demands.

  • Global perspective; cultural sensitivity

  • Ability to withstand pressure, self-motivated with sense of urgency.

    • We want to hear from you. Please submit your CV and a short cover letter describing a project where your enablement work improved performance. Tell us what you delivered, how you measured success and what you learned. We look forward to learning about you.

    Closing Date: 17th February 2026

    This role is hybrid with a min of 2/3 days a week onsite.

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    • If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $159,225 to $265,375.

    • If you are based in another US location, the annual base salary range is $144,750 to $241,250.

    The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

    If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

    Please visit to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

    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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