Associate Director, BD Pipeline & Integration

GSK; North East; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Job summary

GSK in the United States (Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; San Francisco, CA) is seeking an Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management for Business Development to lead cross‑functional R&D diligence, contracting, and integration efforts. You will partner with Business Development, Alliance Management and R&D to deliver robust development plans and value realization from BD transactions.

The role demands extensive experience in drug/vaccine development, global PM leadership, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in R&D, drug/vaccine development or related experience.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in a global project or portfolio management role preferably in the pharmaceutical industry (small molecules, biologics, and/or vaccines) with experience managing drug development projects across multiple phases of development and therapeutic areas.
• Two or more years of experience utilizing Planisware, MS project, or similar tools.
• Two or more years of experience assessing risk, budgets, and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Provide R&D project management throughout diligence, contracting, and integration by identifying critical path activities, resource constraints, and execution risks, ensuring issues are actively managed and escalated to Business Development and to enable timely transition to Business As Usual (BAU).
• Develop integrated cross-functional development plans for Business Development opportunities, aligning strategy, timelines, resources, costs, assumptions, dependencies, and key value drivers to support governance and decision making.
• Facilitate cross-functional evaluation of development and integration scenarios by challenging assumptions, facilitating trade-off discussions, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending mitigation and acceleration strategies to maximize deal value and execution success.
• Liaise with BD colleagues to ensure the appropriate subject matter experts (SMEs)/functional leads are included in diligence and knowledge transfer/integration discussions at the appropriate time to ensure adequate planning pre-deal, during contracting, and post-deal while also ensuring BD teams remain right sized, fit for purpose, and agile.
• Support BD as needed in reviewing the contract and ensuring inclusion of information related to tech transfer obligation to support smooth implementation of deals.
• Set expectations and timelines with SMEs and hold them accountable for delivering on their due diligence and knowledgetransfer responsibilities and for adequately transferring knowledge within their line function if team members must transition
• Manage moderately complex R&D integration, separation, and reversion activities across all therapeutic areas and stages of development
• Drive governance readiness through development of high-quality plans, risk assessments, and recommendations that support timely decision making and value realization.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of PPM BD processes, tools, and ways of working while fostering a culture of collaboration, agility, learning, and operational excellence.

Skills

Communication

Cross-Dept Collaboration

Decision Making

Financial Acumen

Innovation

Leadership

Project Controls

Project Management

Governance

Planning

Tracking

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field

Tools

Planisware

MS Project

Job description

GSK in the United States (Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; San Francisco, CA) is seeking an Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management for Business Development to lead cross‑functional R&D diligence, contracting, and integration efforts. You will partner with Business Development, Alliance Management and R&D to deliver robust development plans and value realization from BD transactions.

The role demands extensive experience in drug/vaccine development, global PM leadership, and