Director, Pipeline Project Management - Research

Reference #: 390621

Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, GSK House, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Posted Date: Feb 29 2024Director, Pipeline Project Management (PPM) - ResearchGSK is a place where outstanding people do amazing things. As a science-led global healthcare company, we exist to help people do more, feel better, live longer. Our goal is to be one of the most innovative, best performing, and trusted healthcare companies.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.

Empower teams to challenge convention, manage uncertainty, and accelerate delivery of critical milestones.

Continuously assess progress and clear the way for uninterrupted focus on the critical path.

Build high-performing teams by cultivating trust and outcomes-focused ways of working.

Share learnings and proven practices across PPM so that we learn and grow as an organization.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.Key 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 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.

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.

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.Basi Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred

Strong experience with Planisware or MS Project is requiredProject 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. PMI/PMBOK).

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.Drug Development Experience

Deep experience and understanding for early drug development strategy across multiple disease areas.

Further experience in drug development, specifically in HIV and disease of low-income countries is favorable.

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.Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

Knowledge of formal high-performance team concepts and experience leading or partnering with project leaders to establish and sustain a high-performance team environment.

Demonstrated ability to build trust and strengthen collaborative relationships with matrixed team members across teams, sub-teams, and functions.

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.

Knowledge of established models for critical thinking, innovation, negotiation, and influencing skills, and experience leading teams in the use of those models to achieve positive outcomes.

Demonstrated leadership in managing partnership and alliance projects is an advantage.Preferred Qualifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) in good standing.

Demonstrated understanding of organizational dynamics in a matrix environment preferred.

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