Senior Manager, PMO

GlaxoSmithKline plc; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline plc is seeking a Senior Manager, PMO to lead internal projects from initiation to completion within the Cyber Security Office. You will oversee planning, resourcing, budgeting and governance to ensure timely, high-quality outcomes in a regulated environment.

The role requires strong leadership, cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management, with a focus on continuous improvement and delivering value across a global, matrixed organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience planning and managing projects from initiation through completion.
• Experience managing resources, budgets, risks, changes, quality, timelines and delivery outcomes.
• Experience operating in the pharmaceutical industry, research and development, quality control or another highly regulated environment.
• Proven ability to lead, coach and motivate teams and manage performance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, cross-departmental collaboration, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality results against tight deadlines, adapt priorities as business needs change.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the project management team, fostering motivation, accountability and performance.
• Plan and manage projects from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery meets quality, timing and cost requirements.
• Organize collection of business and user needs and coordinate interfaces across users, technical teams, and governance functions.
• Secure and coordinate resources required to deliver approved project outcomes.
• Apply formal project management processes and tools to control scope, plans, resources, budgets, risks and changes.
• Provide project management expertise and challenge delivery and validation approaches with stakeholders in regulated and non-regulated contexts.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement to balance quality, cost, pace and business need.
• Work across organizational boundaries to build trusted stakeholder relationships and resolve delivery challenges.
• Translate strategy into clear plans, objectives and delegated accountabilities, balancing pace, rigor and risk.
• Ensure activities comply with applicable quality, environmental, health and safety, security and governance requirements.

Skills

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Purpose

The Senior Manager, PMO plans, monitors and manages internal projects from initiation through completion. The role leads project planning, resourcing, reporting and troubleshooting, secures required resources, and applies formal processes and tools to manage budgets, risks and changes so that projects meet quality, timing and cost requirements.

About the team

The PMO supports the Cyber Security Office by coordinating business needs, project delivery partners and governance stakeholders across the full project lifecycle. The team provides disciplined planning, resource coordination, financial oversight, risk management, reporting and continuous improvement to enable reliable delivery in a global, matrixed and regulated environment.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Lead, coach and develop the project management team, fostering motivation, accountability, performance and capability through regular feedback, training and communication.
• Plan and manage projects from initiation through completion, ensuring delivery meets agreed quality, timing and cost requirements.
• Organize the collection of business and user needs and coordinate interfaces between users, technical teams, delivery partners and governance functions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Secure and coordinate the resources required to deliver approved project outcomes.
• Apply formal project management processes and tools to control scope, plans, resources, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies and changes.
• Provide project management expertise and challenge delivery and validation approaches in collaboration with quality, risk and business stakeholders, taking account of regulated and non-regulated requirements.
• Create a culture of continuous improvement, identifying and implementing solutions that balance quality, cost, pace and business need.
• Work across organizational boundaries to build trusted stakeholder relationships, optimize interfaces and resolve delivery challenges.
• Translate strategy into clear plans, objectives and delegated accountabilities, using evidence and judgement to balance pace, rigor and risk.
• Ensure project activities comply with applicable quality, environmental, health and safety, security and governance requirements.

Why you?

We are looking for professionals with the following required skills to achieve our goals:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience planning and managing projects from initiation through completion.
• Experience managing resources, budgets, risks, changes, quality, timelines and delivery outcomes.
• Experience operating in the pharmaceutical industry, research and development, quality control, quality assurance or another highly regulated environment.
• Proven ability to lead, coach and motivate teams and to manage individual and team performance.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, cross-departmental collaboration, communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to deliver high-quality results against tight deadlines, overcome challenges and adapt priorities as business needs change.
• Strong project planning, tracking, controls, governance, risk management and financial acumen.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering, technical or related discipline.
• Understanding of quality assurance and environmental, health and safety requirements.
• Experience leading change initiatives and promoting effective change management.
• Demonstrated continuous improvement experience and the ability to optimize processes based on quality, cost and business need.
• Experience working cross-functionally and using networks across a global, matrixed organization.
• Ability to build team resilience, develop people, share learning and strengthen the talent pipeline.
• Project or programme management certification such as PMP, MSP, PRINCE2 or SAFe.

Typical tools and methods: enterprise project planning, resource management, budgeting and forecasting, risk and change control, project tracking, governance reporting, data analysis and visualization.

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Closing date for applications: 19 th November 2026

Skills

Change Management, Compliance Risk Management, Dependency Analysis, Executive Reports, Financial Acumen, Portfolio Performance Management, Portfolio Prioritization, Problem Solving, Project Management Governance, Shareholder Communications, Stakeholder Management

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 focu