UKCollaborationsLead

Collaborating with external academic partners is central to GSK’s ambition to accelerate the development of transformative medicines for patients. Harnessing cutting-edge science and technology from world-class research institutes and commercial partnerships is critical to strengthening our innovation pipeline and expanding R&D capability to benefit patients. If you are motivated by building and delivering high-impact partnerships, operating entrepreneurially within a complex ecosystem, and influencing across boundaries to help translate scientific excellence into patient value, the UK Collaborations Lead role offers a unique leadership opportunity. As UK Collaborations Lead, you will play a pivotal role within GSK’s Strategic Partnerships team, working with colleagues within the Research Externalisation and Operations Group in establishing and leading high-quality strategic partnerships with cutting-edge global research institutions and commercial partners. Working across a multidisciplinary matrix, you will establish and manage partnerships that connect external innovation with internal scientific and business priorities, ensuring collaborations are structured to deliver differentiated science, sustainable value, and long-term impact for GSK and its partners. This role provides the opportunity to lead key enterprise-level activities, including: * Accountable for delivery of key UK strategic collaborations (e.g. Cambridge-GSK Translational Immunology Collaboration). * Develop and nurture trust-based relationships with internal and external partners and other key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with GSK values and long-term vision. This is an enterprise role which requires working across a complex matrix. * Shape the development, evolution and delivery of a network of partnerships, science and portfolios to maximize the value to GSK * Establish, implement, and optimize GSK and collaborative scientific research activities, in partnership with collaborators. * Drive