Associate Director Product Management - NPI & Direct Procurement

Overview

Lead product management for Supply Chain NPI, Direct Procurement and related capability areas within GSK's Enterprise Systems, setting product vision, roadmap and investment plan.

What you'll do

• Partner with Business Process Owners, functional leaders and users to understand strategic priorities, process pain points and unmet needs, and translate these into clear product outcomes.
• Define and maintain the product vision, strategy and roadmap for assigned products and capabilities, aligned to domain strategy, enterprise technology direction, portfolio priorities and measurable business value.
• Develop outcome-based investment proposals and contribute to business cases by defining value hypotheses, costs, benefits, risks, assumptions, dependencies, total cost of ownership and measures of success.
• Set prioritisation guardrails for Product Owners and make roadmap trade-offs based on value, cost, urgency, launch criticality, risk, compliance, operational continuity, capacity and technical dependencies.
• Guide Product Owners and delivery teams so that epics, features and releases remain aligned to product outcomes and do not become disconnected collections of requirements.
• Coach Product Owners in discovery, backlog and value-measurement practice.
• Partner with Solution, Enterprise, Data and Security Architects to assess solution options and ensure designs are secure, integrated, scalable and supportable, technology-agnostic where appropriate, and aligned with architecture, data and AI standards.
• Establish and review product performance measures covering adoption, process outcomes, launch cycle time, right-first-time data, stability, service effort, user experience, delivery flow, risk reduction and benefit realisation; use insights to adjust priorities.
• Ensure product initiatives comply with required governance for cyber security, data protection, quality, validation, change control, service readiness, continuity, records management, Responsible AI and human accountability in regulated operations.
• Use approved AI tools in day-to-day work and lead the team in using them to improve productivity and ways of working, including discovery, backlog refinement and requirement drafting, and record the review of AI-assisted outputs before acceptance.
• Lead product-level vendor, platform and solution evaluations using transparent, capability-led criteria and contribute to commercial decisions, supplier performance reviews, lifecycle planning and exit or transition decisions.
• Manage product risks, technical debt, dependencies, adoption and operational readiness, ensuring business change, training, support models, documentation, release communications, onboarding needs, decisions and escalations are addressed through the appropriate governance forums.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or master's degree in supply chain, Procurement, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Business, Life Sciences or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Digital products and portfolio management experience in complex global environments.
• Experience in Supply Chain NPI, product lifecycle data, master data, supply risk, or Direct Procurement processes.
• Product strategy, roadmap development, investment planning, lifecycle management, and benefits realisation.
• Agile, iterative, user-centred and data-led delivery.
• Enterprise technology, ERP, data, integration, security, service management and principles for regulated operations.
• Responsible application of AI, analytics and automation to business processes.
• Typically 7+ years in product management, supply chain or procurement technology, digital transformation, business systems or a related discipline.
• Proven ownership of product vision, roadmap and investment choices for a product, platform or capability portfolio.
• Experience spanning at least two of: NPI or launch management, PLM, PDLM, enterprise master data, supply chain risk management, Direct Procurement, procurement planning or data and insight products.
• Experience translating business strategy and user needs into measurable outcomes, product choices and delivery priorities.
• Experience improving personal and team productivity through approved AI tools, including use in discovery, backlog refinement or requirement drafting, with demonstrated responsible use within Responsible AI, privacy and security requirements, including review of AI-assisted outputs before acceptance.
• Experience leading Product Owners and cross-functional teams through discovery, design, delivery, adoption, operation and lifecycle decisions.
• Experience integrating products across ERP, data, workflow, supplier and supply chain platforms in a complex enterprise landscape.
• Experience defining measures and using adoption, process, data-quality, stability, service and user insights to improve outcomes.
• Experience with business cases, financial forecasting, benefits tracking, supplier evaluation and commercial decisions.
• Experience operating within governance for architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, quality, validation, change control, service readiness and auditability.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and resolving competing priorities in a global matrix organization.

Nice to have

• Product management, agile, supply chain, procurement, business acumen, change leadership, project management or portfolio management certifications.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India (Luxor North Tower).