Senior Director, Translational Genetics

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative individual to join us as a Senior Director in Translational Genetics, which is part of the broader GSK R&D Translational Sciences organization. The successful candidate will lead a team of translational genetics scientists, providing strategic leadership combined with deep analytical expertise and working within a dynamic and highly collaborative environment to identify, develop and deliver a portfolio of translational data-driven work to positively impact and accelerate delivery of the GSK portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to set the direction of your team with a focus on identifying and delivering key translational activities alongside ensuring continued alignment with evolving organizational priorities and working to committed timelines.
• Utilize deep expertise in genetic analysis and the integration of genetics with genomic (including proteomics) and clinical phenotypic data to address targeted translational scientific questions and generate disease-relevant at-scale insights.
• Provide hands-on analytical expertise to accelerate the delivery of work packages that impact the GSK drug development pipeline.
• Work within and lead cross-functional GSK project teams as appropriate, with an emphasis on respiratory, hepatology, neurodegeneration, immunology and/or renal disease.
• Identify, set up and oversee external strategically aligned scientific collaborations.
• Highly effective communication of analysis findings, with expert interpretation, to project teams and senior leaders.
• Work with focus and agility to deliver personal and team deliverables against objectives, demonstrating strong statistical, analytic and critical thinking skills with understanding of the translational context of your work.
• Stay up to date regarding advances and emerging technologies and methodologies in translational genetics and, in particular, the integration of genetics with genomics to address translational questions.
• Lead a team of direct reports and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous professional learning within the team.

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• PhD or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant scientific discipline (e.g. statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, biomedical statistics, computational sciences, bioinformatics or machine learning) with a history of impactful scientific publications and/or presentations.
• Experienced in genetics and conducting analyses that integrate genetics, genomics and/or clinical phenotypic data to address scientific questions relevant to drug discovery and development.
• Experienced in working effectively in multidisciplinary teams involving stakeholders from across functions.
• Experienced and adept in effective communication of complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences.
• Advanced expertise in understanding the key scientific question and identifying, developing and delivering innovative analytical solutions to comprehensively address the specific question.
• Experienced in driving the development and implementation of new methodologies and approaches to integrate genetics and genomics to answer translational questions in drug discovery and development.
• Experienced in setting up and overseeing external collaborations, ensuring delivery of impact for all parties.
• Experienced and skilled at dynamic prioritization of resources and working effectively and flexibly to ensure work undertaken remains tightly aligned with organizational priorities to maximize delivery of impactful work.
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a high-performance team.
• Strong proficiency in at least one of R and Python, with a track record of writing reproducible and scalable code that abides to FAIR principles.
• Demonstrable understanding of the stages of drug discovery and development.