Associate Director, Pipeline Program Management

Role Overview

• 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.
• 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.
• Actively promote GSK’s Code and values.
• Seek diverse perspectives, cultivate psychological safety, and ensure that all relevant voices are heard to strengthen outcomes and foster broad commitment.
• Work on any assignment as directed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, engineering, project management, or related discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience in a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D or related industry.
• 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 using established PM planning tools. (ie: Planisware, MS Project, etc.)
• Experience facilitating project team meetings.
• 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.
• Expertise in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
• Experience facilitating and documenting effective project team meetings.
• Proficiency in established PM planning tools.
• Experience leading or contributing to organizational project management capabilities and PM-related improvement initiatives as needed.

Benefits

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