Associate Director, Global Program Management (Oncology)

GSK; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 105,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Pension plan

Bonus program

Career development

Job summary

GSK is seeking an Associate Director, Global Program Management (Oncology) to lead integrated plans for complex pipelines, partner across R&D and commercial teams, and drive milestones with governance and risk controls. The role focuses on accelerating asset development while ensuring quality and safety in a matrix environment.

The successful candidate will have 7+ years in pharma PM, experience with Planisware and MS Project, and a track record of leading critical path initiatives within

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required; 7+ years PM experience in a matrix pharmaceutical R&D environment.
• Experience with PM principles (PMBOK), risk, planning, critical path, governance.
• Experience building project plans, budgets, forecasts, and PM documentation.
• Experience with established PM tools (Planisware, MS Project).
• Experience facilitating project team meetings and governance interactions.
• Experience leading critical path visualization and senior stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate asset strategy and develop the integrated plan aligning with TA strategy and milestones.
• Own the integrated plan with schedule and budget dependencies.
• Lead options planning and propose tradeoffs to optimize strategy.
• Lead governance preparation and inputs for funding and resourcing decisions.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate critical path activities.
• Coordinate handoffs with cross-functional teams and manage risks.
• Ensure rigorous data and reporting across projects and maintain transparent communication.
• Build trusted relationships and promote collaborative working practices.
• Lead meeting governance and documentation processes.
• Establish and uphold effective ways of working for team communication and decision making.
• Promote GSK’s Code and values and ensure diverse voices are heard.

Skills

Communication

Cross-Departmental Collaboration

Decision Making

Financial Acumen

Innovation

Leadership

Project Controls

Project Management

Project Management Governance

Project Planning

Project Tracking

Risk Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Leadership

Education

BA/BS degree in a related field

Master’s degree in a related field

PMP Certification

Tools

Planisware

MS Project

Job description

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 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.
• 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.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BS degree in a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of project management experience in a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D or related industry.
• 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 using established PM planning tools. (ie: Planisware, MS Project, etc.)
• Experience facilitating project team meetings.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in a related field.
• PMP Certification.
• Oncology experience
• Understanding of drug development and organizational knowledge to validate the operational feasibility, 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 team to develop recommendations and options inclusive of benefit, cost, and risk trade-offs to realize the project strategy.
• Experience preparing for governance interactions to enable funding, resourcing, and strategic and operational project decisions.

Skills

Communication, Cross-Departmental Collaboration, Decision Making, Financial Acumen, Innovation, Leadership, Project Controls, Project Management, Project Management Governance, Project Planning, Project Tracking, Risk Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Leadership

If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $139,425 to $232,375. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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