Hybrid Associate Director – Pipeline Project Management

at GSK

• Job title: Associate Director – Pipeline Project Management
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Upper Providence, United States

About the role

• Associate Director in Pipeline Project Management driving drug development strategy at GSK. Leading critical planning and execution for optimizing project delivery in the pharmaceutical sector.

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 own 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in project, engineering, validation, or technical roles in a regulated environment.
• 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 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.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities