About the role

Associate Director in Pipeline Project Management driving drug development strategy at GSK. Leading critical planning and execution for optimizing project delivery in the pharmaceutical sector.

Responsibilities

Facilitate and/or contribute to asset strategy and evidence strategy, and lead development of the integrated project plan to ensure feasibility and alignment with TA strategy, prioritization, and pipeline performance objectives.
Own the single integrated plan that builds team commitment to shared goals with schedules and budgets based on clear dependencies and assumptions.
Lead options planning, generate recommendations, alternatives, and tradeoffs to strengthen decision-making and optimize the project strategy.
Lead team preparation for governance decisions and own schedule, risk, and budget inputs.
Identify opportunities to accelerate by challenging constraints that impact critical path and near-critical path activities.
Orchestrate seamless handoffs with focus on the critical path through proactive project plan monitoring, risk management, and cross-functional management of project issues with timely escalation to leadership as required.
Ensure rigor, consistency, and compliance in established systems to drive timely, high-quality data and reporting in and across projects.
Build trusting relationships with the team and stakeholders to encourage transparency and collaboration.
Use strong facilitation skills to lead regular project team meetings and apply consistent best practice for meeting agendas, actions, minutes, and other meeting documentation.
Establish and sustain agreed-upon ways of working for effective team communication, decisions, and conflict resolution.

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in project, engineering, validation, or technical roles in a regulated environment.
Experience in all aspects of project management based on established PM principles and methods (e.g. PMI/PMBOK), including scenario analysis, risk management, planning and execution, critical path management, lessons learned, communication and reporting.
Experience building and maintaining project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (key assumptions, risks, etc.).
Experience preparing for governance interactions to enable funding, resourcing, and strategic and operational project decisions.
Experience leading and facilitating the identification, visualization, and acceleration of the project’s critical path, and the ability to present the critical path activities and dependencies to project stakeholders.