Associate Director, Clinical Development Project Manager - Oncology

GlaxoSmithKline; Upper Providence (Delaware County); On-site; USD 139,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Paid holidays

Vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

GlaxoSmithKline is seeking an Associate Director Clinical Development Project Manager to oversee CMT project management from charter through closeout. You will standardize planning, governance, and reporting, partnering with functional leads and the broader PPM organization to ensure timely, compliant delivery across complex programs.

You will maintain PM artifacts, manage risks and issues, and produce executive updates, dashboards, and lessons learned, while promoting GSK values and advanced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, nursing, pharmacy, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience in a matrix team environment, ideally within pharma/biotech R&D or clinical development.
• Experience building and maintaining core PM artifacts (charters, scope statements, WBS, RACI, RAID logs).
• Experience with governance and reporting tools (MS Project, Planisware, Smartsheet, Excel, Power BI, Tableau).
• Experience facilitating governance and producing status reports, dashboards, and executive summaries.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the Project Charter and Scope Statement for the CMTs and lead kickoff materials.
• Build and maintain Stakeholder Register, Communication Plan, and Governance Calendar for clear updates.
• Create and maintain CMT plan with milestone schedule and critical-path activities.
• Own the RACI Matrix and Governance Framework across functional leads.
• Maintain Risk/Issue logs, RAID, Dependency Tracker and drive timely resolutions.
• Produce recurring Status Reports and Project Dashboard for leadership visibility.
• Develop Quality/Compliance checkpoints and Change Log to ensure regulatory adherence.
• Lead monthly governance meetings and ensure consistent agendas, actions, and minutes.
• Promote GSK codes and values and foster cross-functional collaboration.

Skills

PM artifacts

MS Project

Planisware

Smartsheet

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Governance

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or related field

Tools

MS Project

Planisware

Smartsheet

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

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 Position Summary

Clinical Matrix Teams (CMTs) are asset‑focused teams of functional leaders that design and deliver early‑ to late‑stage Clinical Development Plans (CDPs).

As the number and complexity of CMTs has grown, these teams need dedicated project management capacity to stay organized, disciplined, and focused on the critical path. The Associate Director Clinical Development Project Manager provides the project management and communication‑planning backbone that keeps one or more CMTs running efficiently, freeing functional leads to focus on clinical strategy rather than administrative coordination. The role owns the full lifecycle of CMT project management assets — from charter, scope, and kickoff through governance, risk, resourcing, and reporting, to implementation, training, and closeout — and partners with CMT functional leads and the broader PPM organization to standardize how CMTs plan, govern, track progress, and report status. The Associate Director Clinical Development Project Manager demonstrates a strong grounding in established project management methods and brings a track record of applying them within a complex, matrixed life sciences organization. With guidance from the CMT Lead and/or PPM Director, the role manages CMT project infrastructure with limited day‑to‑day oversight, escalating risks and issues to leadership as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and own the Project Charter and Scope Statement that define the CMT’s objectives, scope, stakeholders, and success criteria, and lead the Project Kickoff Deck that aligns the team at initiation.
• Build and maintain the Stakeholder Register, Communication Plan, and Meeting Cadence / Governance Calendar so the right information reaches the right people with clear, timely escalation paths.
• Create and maintain the CMT plan, translating CDP milestones into a visual schedule of tasks, dependencies, and critical‑path activities.
• Own the RACI Matrix and Governance Framework, clarifying accountability across functional leads and defining steering committee structures and decision checkpoints for the CMT.
• Maintain the Risk Log / RAID Register, Issue Log, and Dependency Tracker, proactively identifying, escalating, and driving resolution of risks, issues, and cross‑functional dependencies.
• Produce recurring Status Reports and the Project Dashboard (summary view), giving leadership a clear, KPI‑based view of progress, risk, and milestones.
• Maintain the Requirements / Deliverables Log, Decision Log, Action Item Tracker, and Milestone Tracker so that scope, decisions, and commitments stay traceable and on schedule.
• Develop the Quality / Test Plan and Compliance Checklist, and maintain the Change Log, to confirm deliverables meet quality standards and adhere to regulatory and policy requirements.
• Prepare the Stakeholder Communication Summary and Executive Summary Report, translating detailed project activity into concise updates for stakeholders and leadership.
• Deliver the Lessons Learned / Closeout Report and Post‑Implementation Review, capturing performance against objectives and recommendations to improve future CMT engagements.
• Facilitate monthly governance and review meetings with project stakeholders to review deliverables and plan upcoming activities, applying consistent best practice for agendas, actions, and minutes.
• Ensure rigor, consistency, and compliance in established PM systems and templates to drive timely, high‑quality data and reporting across the CMT.
• Build trusting relationships with functional leads and stakeholders to encourage transparency, collaboration, and effective conflict resolution.
• Actively promote GSK’s Code and values.
• Seek diverse perspectives, cultivate psychological safety, and ensure all relevant voices are heard to strengthen outcomes.
• Work on any assignment as directed.

Work arrangement

This role is hybrid. You will typically work 2 to 3 days per week onsite at a GSK office. Fully remote working is not available.

Why You?

Basic Qualification

• We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, nursing, pharmacy, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of project management experience in a matrix team environment, ideally within pharmaceutical/biotech R&D or clinical development.
• Experience building and maintaining core PM artifacts, including charters, scope statements, WBS, RACI matrices, and RAID/risk logs.
• Experience using established PM planning and reporting tools (e.g., MS Project, Planisware, Smartsheet, Excel, Power BI, or Tableau).
• Experience facilitating governance and project team meetings, and preparing materials for steering committee / governance review.
• Experience producing status reports, dashboards, and executive summaries for senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting resource planning, budget tracking, and financial variance reporting on complex, multi‑month projects.
• Experience with clinical project management for oncology clinical trials.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree / Advanced Degree
• Project/Program Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
• Experience with MS Project, Planisware, Excel, and Power BI/Tableau, or other recognized PM and reporting tools, is required.
• Experience operating within a remote, contractor/consulting engagement model with a monthly governance reporting cadence is a plus.

Project Management Expertise

• Experience across the full PM lifecycle — from charter and initiation through governance, execution, implementation, training, and closeout / lessons learned.
• Experience building and maintaining a single source‑of‑truth project plan with clear dependencies, milestones, and critical‑path visibility.
• Experience managing risk, issue, dependency, and decision logs across multiple functions and translating them into clear escalations.
• Experience implementing quality/compliance checkpoints and change‑control processes.

Clinical Development / Life Sciences Experience

• Understanding of Clinical Development Plans (CDPs) and how Clinical Matrix Teams operate within a matrixed R&D organization.
• Experience supporting cross‑functional teams (clinical, regulatory, biostatistics, medical, commercial) to coordinate delivery of clinical milestones.
• Experience with regulatory and compliance considerations relevant to clinical trial project management.

Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

• Experience building trust and strengthening collaborative relationships with matrixed stakeholders across functions.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder‑management skills, with the ability to translate detailed project activity into clear, concise updates for leadership.
• Experience proactively flagging risks and delays and escalating appropriately and in a timely manner.

#GSK-LI 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
• 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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

We are a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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