Director, Product Manager - Legal

About the Team:   Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.         Legal, Compliance & WREF Digital & Tech delivers digital solutions that support Legal & Compliance and Workplace Real Estate & Facilities (WREF). This team drives product roadmaps and manages platforms that safeguard GSK’s integrity and reputation globally. By joining this team, you’ll help shape systems that support thousands of employees worldwide, driving innovation and reliability in the tools that keep GSK moving forward.   Job Purpose:   The Director, Product Manager - Legal leads a group of Legal Technology Products – spanning Legal Operations and Intellectual Property (IP) within the Legal, Compliance & WREF Digital & Tech Domain, ensuring they deliver measurable value, support business processes, and are continuously improved. They work closely with the SD, Legal, Compliance & WREF Digital & Tech to translate functional goals into product roadmaps and provide direction to Product Owners on prioritisation, delivery focus, and product performance. The Director, Legal Product Manager ensures that Legal & Compliance products are usable, compliant, secure, and efficient to operate, while fostering a culture of agile delivery, value realisation, and continuous improvement across their Product group. This role operates under GSK's "Performance with Choice" hybrid working approach, typically expecting 2–3 days per week in the office, with the specific pattern agreed between the successful candidate and their manager based on role and team needs.   Key Responsibilities:   • Translate functional strategies provided by the SD, Legal, Compliance & WREF Digital & Tech into actionable product roadmaps and delivery priorities across the Legal product group – covering Legal Operations and Intellectual Property as well as the Legal AI Platform products. • Provide leadership, direction and coaching to Product Owners, ensuring requirements are well-defined, business cases for investment are robust, backlogs are prioritised to support business goals, architectural guidance, compliance needs, data-driven decisions, FinOps considerations, and domain ecosystem dependencies through cross-functional partnering. • Partner with business stakeholders to understand pain points, process challenges, and improvement needs, shaping product enhancements and technology-enabled opportunities. • Oversee delivery execution across the Legal product group, ensuring the quality, usability, stability, and supportability of released features and services. • Promote agile and iterative delivery practices (e.g. SaFe, Scrum), supporting incremental value release, transparency of priorities, and improved collaboration with business users. Being comfortable providing product leadership to multiple delivery initiatives at one time. • Act as the escalation point for critical product performance, delivery issues, and dependency conflicts, addressing risks and facilitating decisions. • Champion the adoption of user-centred improvements, Legal business process optimisation, and automation/AI opportunities that reduce cycle time and enhance user experience. • Ensure effective, defensible, risk, security, and compliance management (e.g. ISO controls, GDPR, legal privilege, Information governance requirements) across the Legal product group, embedding relevant controls in partnership with Security, Risk, Legal and Compliance SMEs. • Support Solution Architec