Site Name: Istanbul River Plaza
Posted Date: Oct 6 2025

Cluster Director, MEA and Russia

Business Introduction

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.

Position Summary

The Cluster Director leads WREF EMEA site operations across multiple sites, ensuring all facilities services comply with GSK and local regulations. This role provides strategic leadership for facilities management, oversees site operations personnel, and manages relationships with senior GSK leaders and external authoritiespartners. The Cluster Director is responsible for business continuity, risk management, and compliance, especially for sites with critical business functions or high security risks. Key duties include managing contract partners, driving operational performance, delivering capital projects, and supporting sustainability initiatives. The role also involves coordinating cross-functional teams, integrating services for a cohesive employee experience, and adapting to the evolving needs of the GSK business.

Responsibilities

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  Supervise strategy, standards, and relevant policy to site improvements (including minor works, infrastructure, business driven and energy projects). Partner with local assigned EHS lead to ensure workplace is managed and services are delivered in accordance with internal GSK policies, standards, procedures, alerts, and relevant external regulations with respect to Quality, Engineering, Statutory and Environmental Health & Safety requirements.

• Specifically, he/she is responsible to ensure the delivery of all WREF contract provisions and its ongoing development across a portfolio of sites or a “cluster” of sites.

• Setting the performance expectations and standards of WREF activities in the MEA Cluster. Ensuring measurement systems, mindset and behaviors are in place and in use that drive continuous improvement.

• Financial Governance: Accountable for the development of cluster capital and operating budgets and governance/delivery of same

• Ensuring all WREF activities and service partner staff in the ‘’cluster’’ operate in full compliance with the local statutory instruments and GSK regulations/policies.

• Team Leadership: Accountable for the development and delivery of a world class Real Estate and Facilities function within their cluster through performance management, indirect people development & talent management, organizational capability & culture development and change leadership. Work closely with key internal stakeholders (e.g., HR, Tech, procurement etc.) to ensure WREF’s services are integrated as a part of a joined up, cohesive approach to employee experience.

• Internal Customer Relationship Management: Primary point of contact for senior GSK Business Unit customers in Market i.e., VP, SVP, country and regional GM & FD levels of the company.

• Facilities/Workplace/Estate Planning: Ensure the development and delivery of the cluster and site service offering through business strategy alignment in the region. Gathering and understanding business occupancy and real estate needs, facilities infrastructure & workspace investment, the delivery of site upgrades, regional and local transport strategies, accessibility and sustainability programmes, business occupancy & real estate needs, space utilization analysis and the engagement of specialist consultants as required from time to time.

• Facilities Management Services: Accountability for the delivery of the regional operations strategy that aligns to and enables the overarching WREF strategy. Role holder is the controller of cluster delivery for all operational services: direct oversight and contract governance of local third-party supplier/partner delivery, risk & compliance management, crisis & continuity management, service benchmark & unit cost analysis & optimization, service standards implementation, as well as innovation, improvement and process simplification.

• Role will ensure fleet contract administration including identifying interface as appropriate with regional SME and operating as service partner points of contact to ensure appropriate service delivery in all applicable sites within cluster

Qualifications/Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Management, or a related field.

• Commercial acumen – ability to manage OPEX & CAPEX budgets

• Strategic and learning agility

• Critical thinking and decision-making skills

• Expert communication (written and oral) and presentation skills

• Influence without authority.

• Demonstrate extensive competence in the operational engineering field. Chartered Engineer status in a relevant discipline is preferred level of education. For Commercial facilities that are Landlord-owned, degree in business, or facilities related discipline is accepted. Safety qualification desired

• A strong background in directing facility operations or real estate services in an operational environment, with specialist knowledge in one or more areas (operations, real estate, fleet, capital projects)

• Broad understanding of all engineering disciplines as they apply to design, operation and maintenance of

• Commercial facilities in the areas of health, safety, environment and quality and how these are impacted by engineering.

• Ability to work on-site in Türkiye, with regional travel as required.

• Excellent interpersonal, presentational, and persuasive skills to successfully interact with managers at all levels with the ability to manage internal relations on a multi-site and international basis.

• Ability to establish high level strategic working relationships with key external contract partners to deliver a portfolio of contracts.

• Strong ability to act as a motivator of change. Ability to drive decisions and actions

• Comprehensive awareness of current political developments and emerging external issues.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strategic planning expertise, with a track record of delivering measurable results.

• Familiarity with regulatory environments across the Middle East, Africa, and Russia.

• Fluency in English; additional language skills relevant to the region are a plus.

Work Location:

This is an on-site role based in Istanbul, Türkiye OR Cairo, Egypt with flexibility for occasional remote work and travel within the region.

Closing Date for Applications: 20th October 2025

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert. When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

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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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