Project Management Director

1 day ago


Brentford, Greater London, United Kingdom GlaxoSmithKline Full time
Project Management Director, Primary and Small Molecules

This role will be based in GSK House, UK or in Singapore.

We are seeking a highly experienced Project Management Director to lead multiple strategic projects for Primary and Small Molecules (PSM). The successful candidate will have a proven track record of managing complex projects and will be responsible for ensuring project goals are defined and achieved.

The role incumbent will use 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.

Key Responsibilities:
  1. Manage strategic programs/projects including change management to execute on PSM's strategy
  2. Lead and own project setup, planning, governance, reporting and execution of business and operational projects
  3. Own program/project plans that build team commitment to shared goals with schedules and budgets based on clear dependencies and assumptions.
  4. Lead team preparation for governance decisions and progress monitoring on schedule, cost, risk and benefits vs agreed project objectives
  5. Identify opportunities to accelerate projects by challenging constraints that impact delivery
  6. Conduct impact analyses, assess change readiness and identify key stakeholders to manage the change with actionable deliverables for key change management levers – communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan and resistance management plan
  7. Effectively identify and manage project risks and cross-functional management of project issues with timely escalation to leadership as required
  8. Work closely with Communications teams on rolling out, communicating and monitoring impact of change
  9. Implement program/project tracking and reporting to ensure proactive management, appropriate visibility and clear communication to all relevant stakeholders and partners
  10. Support building a strong culture of project management and governance including building required project management playbooks and forums for best practice exchange across sites
  11. Engage with change management community at GSK to exchange on/apply best practices at PSM
  12. Support any additional special projects and initiatives at PSM as needed
Requirements:
  1. Bachelors' / Master's degree, with significant project management experience
  2. Formal qualifications in Project and/or Programme Management (PMP) preferred, otherwise extensive experience of having demonstrated project management methodologies on transformation programs and strategic projects of varying complexity
  3. Experience of leading change management projects, applying proven methodologies and frameworks; change management certification a bonus
  4. For internal candidates, understanding of GSK project management guidelines and DIA/SPADM
  5. Good understanding of GSK and the pharma industry (GSC experience is a plus, but not mandatory)
  6. Proven ability to project manage programs/projects involving multiple cross-geography and cross-functional stakeholders, with previous similar experience
  7. Extensive experience in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
  8. Proficiency in established PM planning tools and PowerBI skills to build/work with project reporting dashboards
  9. Ability to influence and engage all levels of stakeholders in the business in a matrixed/remote setup

We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

GlaxoSmithKline 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 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).

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles.



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