GSK is seeking a motivated and energetic Associate Director, Pipeline Project Manager who will be responsible for the integration of project research and development strategy in the global plan, the optimization of the project critical path, and enabling optimal and efficient execution.

In this position, as an experienced professional, you will provide operational and strategic leadership to the drug or vaccine matrix team by working with functional area partners to deliver robust, fit for purpose plan, and oversee its execution.

The role is responsible for generating scenario planning for the project team, enabling robust data-driven decision-making, and for the oversight and reporting of development program deliverables and objectives. Alongside the technical project management responsibilities, you will use your ‘soft skills’ to keep the matrix team motivated, aligned and focused on delivering the team’s critical path.

You will be assigned to projects belonging to one of our diverse therapeutic areas which include Vaccines, Oncology, Specialty & Primary Care, HIV, and Global Health, and you will have the opportunity to learn and be developed across several of these areas.

We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit, and diverse perspective to our organization.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Influence the strategy, seamlessly integrate it into an endorsed development plan, optimize the critical path, and oversee its execution

• Be accountable to, and work with, the Project Leader (and Project Team) to translate the strategy into a robust, competitive medicines or vaccines development plan, with an optimized critical path and clear go/no go decision points

• Define opportunities for acceleration and manage the assumptions regarding human resources and budget forecast

• Proactively identify and escalate project risks or issues, and consider options to manage and minimize implications on project timelines, budgets, and goals

• Monitor progress against approved project plans, noting deviations and suggesting corrective actions

• Work with all functional lines to create alignment of overarching project development plans with functional area plans

• Ensure source systems reflect the current project plan assumptions to enable integrated planning across the organization, and ability to track performance against baseline and current plan

Drive scenario planning and enable Governance / Decision- Making

• Drive the preparation of strategic scenario analyses to achieve time, value, and budget advantages

• Lead the preparation of documents for key governance meetings

Manage Resource and Budget

• Identify and manage project resource/budget requirements and anticipated variance, and work with the Project Leader and matrix team to ensure estimates are accurate, gaps are addressed, and progress tracked

Manage the Matrix Team

• Provide operational leadership of project team by overseeing the execution of the strategy

• Manage project-level team meetings, ensure they have a structure and are effective

• Document clear decisions/actions (minutes) that are communicated to team members and stakeholders

• Keep the matrix team aligned and focused on the execution of the critical path

• Take action to maintain effective dynamics and creating optimal team environment and performance

Own the Project Communication

• Utilize effective communication skills to facilitate appropriate information exchange between Functional Lines, Project Leader, and senior management; ensuring project information is quickly communicated to the appropriate stakeholders, in an agreed format and cadence, and in compliance with approved standards

Drive continuous development of yourself and the department

• Continuously enhance personal understanding and application of project management tools and methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry

• Participate in process improvement initiatives and bring in external perspective and industry standard practices

• Perform project data analyses and reporting, as needed

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Master's degree in Life Sciences or Business Management area with a minimum 3 years pharmaceutical R&D or related industry experience  

• Direct experience in successful pharmaceutical project management across multiple phases of research and development (discovery to phase 4), with timeline, management, and budgetary responsibility

• 3 years of experience in risk, budget, and resource management

• Background in multi-disciplinary pharmaceutical drug and/or vaccine development required (oncology, vaccines, specialty & primary care, infectious disease) 

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Demonstrated ability to act/think strategically and see “the big picture”

• Entrepreneurial spirit, strong judgement, and strong leadership skills including effective communication, emotional intelligence, influencing skills within a matrix and senior management (e.g. influence without authority), motivate others, and manage conflicts

• Experience with of critical path generation, and a drive to find solutions to meet or exceed expected timelines

• Strong experience with project management tools such as Planisware and/or MS Project, and computer proficiency (advanced knowledge of MS-Office applications required including Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

• Experience effectively managing multiple projects with competing priorities

• Experience fostering a strong collaborative spirit internally and externally• 

• PMP certification

• Agile and distributed decision-making

• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.

• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learnings, both internally and externally.

• Ability to think critically

• Passion for delivering medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat disease  

Why GSK?

We’re combining the power of genetic and genomic insights into what causes disease, with the speed and scale of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to make better predictions about who a treatment might work for, and why. We believe this powerful combination of data and technology holds the key to fundamentally transforming medical discovery for the better, improving R&D success rates and shaping how even the most challenging diseases, like neurological conditions and cancer, can be both prevented and treated.​

In 2021 we delivered four major product approvals: Cabenuva for HIV, Jemperli for endometrial cancer, Xevudy for COVID-19 and Apretude, our new long-acting medicine for HIV prevention.​

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