Associate Director, Global Program Management (Oncology)

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Find out more: Our approach to R&D

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.

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 PPM can also operate at program level, as when a commercialization team oversees multiple projects under the umbrella of a single program strategy. The Associate Director demonstrates willingness to learn and brings a track record of success managing R&D pipeline projects within a complex life sciences organization.

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.
• 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 pl...

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