Senior Product Owner - Veeva QMS

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.
 

This role is positioned within the Enterprise Veeva Quality Product Team, responsible for contributing to the technical solution design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Veeva Quality Suite with specific alignment to the Quality, Audit & Risk business processes.

The Veeva Quality Senior Product Expert will have advanced experience in Veeva QMS/ Veeva QualityDocs Vault configuration and be able to provide subject matter expertise to fellow team members.

• Manage advanced configuration change requests on lifecycles, workflows, atomic security settings, objects, reports, etc.

• Responsible for documenting technical changes following GSK’s Internal framework.

• Participate in Test Authoring of any development work to support Validation activities, utilising HP Quality Center.

• Participate in Veeva Quarterly Releases for Impact analysis and enabling functionality.

• Ability to work with core business leads to streamline legacy processes using Veeva functionality and drive user efficiency.

• Expertise in the life sciences industry, especially regarding Quality, Audit & Risk business processes and technology landscapes. Knowledge of GxP.

• Strong communication skills.

• Experience of being part of an Agile team, working with cross-functional teams, managing customer expectations, and helping to drive best practices

• Ensure that the GSK Standard Processes are applied and adhered to including embedding and adopting standard ways of working in accordance with Quality Risk and Compliance and Validation policies.

• Leading the end to end process redesign and projects VQMS implementation from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Provide Product expertise in Veeva Quality suite as a certified Vault platform administrator and VQD & QMS system administrator and configuration specialist.

• Manage configuration changes for VQD/QMS per agreed priority backlog items in JIRA.

• Participate in impact assessment activities, reviewing proposed changes and ensuring impact understood across QMS and QualityDocs.

• Deliver product enhancements through agreed backlog process to ensure Veeva QMS evolves to meet business needs

• Ensure Quality Vault remains compliant as a Validated Solution through supporting testing and re-validation efforts

• Collaborate with Veeva Enterprise Managed Services on product features

• Collaborate with VQD/QMS Business resources across Pharma Supply Chain, R&D, Vaccines and the GSK Support Functions.

• Manage and maintain meta data in Quality Vault (picklists, organizational data, etc)

Basic Qualification

• 6+ year of Veeva Vault Quality experience and particularly desirable is QMS experience

• Ideally a Veeva Vault QMS implementation project completed in a configuration specialist type capacity and ideally with agile experience.

Skills

Agile Methodology, Backlogs, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Design Thinking, DevOps, Process Diagrams, Product Strategies, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Services Management, Software Development, User Experience (UX), User Research, User Story

 

 

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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