**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre, Italy - Siena
**Posted Date**: Sep 25 2024
**Director, Pipeline Project Management - Vaccines**:
Pipeline Project Management drives decisions and enables teams to choose the best path and deliver medicines to patients faster than ever.
In GSK, the Pipeline Project Manager (PPM) will act as the 'COO' of the asset and will partner with project leads to help teams plot the best course, then accelerate through complexity and uncertainty with no compromise to quality or safety.
- 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 PPM can also operate at program level, as when (for example) a franchise or disease-area team oversees multiple projects under the umbrella of a single program strategy.
**Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to**:
- 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.
- 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.
**_ Why you?_**:
**Basic Qualifications**:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor's degree (equivalent) in life science or business management or related.
- Considerable experience of project management experience in a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D or related industry.
- Extensive experience building and maintaining high-quality project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (key assumptions, risks, etc.).
- Extensive experience guiding teams to develop recommendations and options inclusive of benefit, cost, and risk trade-offs to realize the project strategy.
- Extensive experience preparing for governance interactions to enable funding, resourcing, and strategic and operational project decisions.
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience proactively collaborating with a wide variety of project, functional, and leadership stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to build trust and strengthen collaborative relationships with matrixed team members across teams, sub-teams, and functions.
- Background in multi-disciplinary pharmaceutical vaccine development and infectious disease.
**Preferred Qualifications**:
- If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:_
- Project or Program Management Professional (PMP) Qualification.
- Experience with Planisware, MS Projects, and/or other recognized Project Management tools.
- Experience of leading or partnering with project leaders to establish and sustain a high-performance team environment.
**_ Closing Date for Applications: 9th October 2024 (EOB)_**
**Why GSK?**
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