Are you passionate about leading and managing strategic projects that optimize the delivery of life-changing medicines? Do you have the vision and skills to manage a complex and diverse portfolio of projects, if so, we want you to be our Project Management Director, Primary and Small Molecules (PSM).
The role incumbent uses their significant experience and demonstrated success in managing similar projects within GSK or other pharma organizations, ensuring project goals are defined and achieved by applying expertise in project management best practices. The role holder leads the creation, optimization, and execution of ambitious plans with accountability for projects meeting key milestones on schedule and within budget.
Key Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities as follows:
Lead and support project setup, planning, governance, reporting and execution of business and operational projects
Lead team preparation for governance decisions and progress monitoring on schedule, cost, risk and benefits vs agreed project objectives
Identify opportunities to accelerate projects by challenging constraints that impact delivery
Effectively identify and manage project risks and cross-functional management of project issues with timely escalation to leadership as required
Implement program/project tracking and reporting to ensure proactive management, appropriate visibility and clear communication to all relevant stakeholders and partners
Support building a strong culture of project management and governance including building required project management playbooks and forums for best practice exchange across sites
Support sites with strategic analyses and preparation for Business Review Meetings, and site strategies
Engage with change management community at GSK to exchange on/apply best practices at PSM
Support any additional special projects and initiatives at PSM as needed
Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Bachelor’s/Master’s degree, with project management experience
Formal qualifications in Project and/or Programme Management (PMP) required, otherwise experience of having demonstrated project management methodologies on transformation programs and strategic projects of varying complexity
For internal candidates, understanding of GSK project management guidelines and DIA/SPADM
Good understanding of GSK and the pharma industry (GSC experience is a plus, but not mandatory)
Proven ability to project manages programs/projects involving multiple cross-geography and cross-functional stakeholders, with previous similar experience
Extensive experience in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
Proficiency in established PM planning tools
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Critical thinking and problem-solving ability with strong structuring skills
Ability to engage all levels of stakeholders in the business in a matrixed/remote setup; excellent verbal and written communication skills
Proactive, resourceful with good attention to detail
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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