Senior Manager, Product Owner - MES

Position Summary This role leads the MES platform for clinical manufacturing, ensuring the roadmap, priorities, and delivery model support business needs across Vaccines and Pharma. You will work across manufacturing, quality, and technology teams to deliver compliant, scalable, and sustainable digital capabilities. Key Responsibilities Own the MES product roadmap and backlog, ensuring priorities are aligned to business value and delivery capacity. Lead cross‑functional collaboration across Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, and Digital & Technology teams. Ensure the product remains compliant, validated, and operationally sustainable. Support a high‑performing product team through clear prioritization, planning, and stakeholder alignment. Maintain the MES platform strategy and roadmap in line with clinical manufacturing priorities. Prioritize demand and manage the product backlog, including key Epics and Features. Oversee PI readiness, delivery planning, and cross‑functional dependencies across connected platforms. Ensure compliant lifecycle management across development, testing, validation, release, and support. Lead the successful planning and delivery of product releases, ensuring readiness across business, quality, and technology teams. Monitor product performance, incidents, and improvement actions to support reliable operations and business adoption. Basic Qualifications Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years relevant experience in product management or digital delivery within regulated manufacturing or similarly complex environments. Experience with MES, electronic batch record, or related digital manufacturing products. Experience delivering technology solutions within highly regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environments, with a solid understanding of GxP requirements, validation processes, compliance standards, risk management, and operational governance. Experience with product lifecycle management in agile ways of working across matrix organizations and international teams. Preferred Qualifications Advanced Degree. Ability to shape product priorities and drive delivery across cross‑functional stakeholders. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Familiarity with manufacturing integrations such as automation, historians, ERP, or connected equipment. Team leadership experience with the ability to coach and develop others. Working Pattern This is a hybrid role. Exact on‑site days will be agreed with the hiring manager. Salary Range (Belgium) EUR 80,250 to EUR 133,750 gross base annually. May include an annual bonus and eligibility for share‑based long‑term incentive programmes. Equal Opportunity Statement GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. #J-18808-Ljbffr GlaxoSmithKline