Hybrid Director, Pipeline Project Management – Vaccines

at GSK

• Job title: Director, Pipeline Project Management – Vaccines
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $170,775 - $284,625 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: PMP
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United States

About the role

• Director managing pipeline projects in vaccine development at GSK. Leading multi-project strategies, governance, and team collaboration within a complex life sciences organization.

Responsibilities

• Oversee projects deliverables and guide strategy and governance preparation for direct reports (if appropriate) to ensure outcomes consistent with PPM expectations.
• 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 trade-offs to strengthen decision-making and optimize the project strategy.
• Leads team preparation for governance decisions and owns 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.

Requirements

• BS or BA in life science or business management or related
• Minimum 10 years of project management experience in a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D or related industry
• Minimum 5 years of experience in all aspects of project management based on established PM principles and methods (e.g. PMI/PMBOK)
• Minimum 5 years of experience building and maintaining project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (key assumptions, risks, etc.)
• Minimum 5 years of experience using established PM planning tools (ie: Planisware, MS Project, etc.)
• Project/Program Management Professional (PMP) certificate preferred

Benefits

• health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits
• paid holidays
• vacation
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave