Director of Asset Management and Building Safety

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, GSK House, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
Director, Pipeline Project Management (PPM) - Research
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In GSK, the Pipeline Project Manager (PPM) is expected to act as the ‘COO’ for assigned projects and will partner with project leaders to help teams plot the best course, then accelerate through complexity and uncertainty with no compromise to quality or safety.
Pipeline Project Managers compose a community of drug/vaccine development and commercialization experts applying industry-leading project management practices to plan and deliver pipeline projects with industry-leading performance:
Apply a holistic perspective and broad knowledge of drug/vaccine development to help Research and Development teams test ideas and optimize the strategy.
The Director, PPM Research, has demonstrated longstanding success as a research stage project manager. They are fully capable of applying strategic drug development, leadership, and project management skills to facilitate successful outcomes for Early Development Teams as an assigned project manager and mentor (as required). The Director may serve as a thought leader in project management, who will promote and advocate for Pipeline Project Management best practices.
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.
Lead options planning, generate recommendations, alternatives, and tradeoffs to strengthen decision-making and optimize the project strategy.
Lead team preparation for governance decisions and owns schedule, risk, and budget inputs.
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.
Use strong facilitation skills to lead regular project team meetings and apply consistent best practice for meeting agendas, actions, minutes, and other meeting documentation.
Serve as a visible PM (Project Manager) leader working with other PPM leaders and R&D stakeholders within and across Therapeutic Areas to ensure development of an industry-leading project management capability focused on accelerating pipeline projects.
Bachelor’s degree required; master's degree preferred
Strong experience with Planisware or MS Project is required
Project Management Expertise
Extensive project management knowledge and experience applied to a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D.
Demonstrated expertise in all aspects of project management, based on established PM principles and methods (e.g. Strong experience building and maintaining high-quality networked project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (RACI, communication plans, key assumptions, risk register, etc.).
Expert-level ability to communicate a clear and concise view of project status, critical path, and upcoming work to help the team and functions work in concert.
Experience leading and facilitating the identification, visualization, and acceleration of the project’s critical path, including the ability to explain the critical path activities and dependencies to project stakeholders.
Expertise in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
Expert proficiency in established PM planning tools.
Extensive experience facilitating and documenting effective project team meetings.
Experience leading or contributing to organizational project management capabilities and PM-related improvement initiatives as needed.
Possesses research, development and organizational knowledge to serve as a mentor and thought partner to team members as they validate the operational feasibility of development strategies, challenge project team assumptions, and prompt subject matter experts to consider the impact of portfolio strategy and external landscape (regulatory, commercial, and competitive).
Experience guiding teams to develop recommendations and options inclusive of benefit, cost, and risk trade-offs to realize the project strategy.
Knowledge and success preparing for governance interactions to enable funding, resourcing, and strategic and operational project decisions.
Knowledge of formal high-performance team concepts and e xperience leading or partnering with project leaders to establish and sustain a high-performance team environment.
Demonstrated ability to identify, capture, share, and apply learnings and best practice across projects.
Demonstrated experience proactively collaborating with a wide variety of project, functional, and leadership stakeholders.
Demonstrated leadership in managing partnership and alliance projects is an advantage.
Project Management Professional (PMP) in good standing.
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