Associate Director, Global Program Management (Oncology)

GSK; Upper Providence (Delaware County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking an Associate Director for Global Program Management (Oncology) to lead integrated project plans across oncology assets. You will partner with project leads to drive strategy, timelines, budgets, and cross-functional execution, ensuring rigorous governance and fast decision making.

The role requires a BA/BS and 7+ years of PM experience in pharmaceutical R&D, with proficiency in PM tools and risk management.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required.
• 7+ years of project management experience in a matrix environment.
• Experience with PM principles/methods (e.g., PMI/PMBOK).
• Experience building and maintaining project plans, budgets, and resource forecasts.
• Experience using PM tools (Planisware, MS Project).
• Experience facilitating project team meetings and governance interactions.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate asset and evidence strategy and develop the integrated project plan.
• Own the single integrated plan with clear dependencies and budgets.
• Lead options planning and tradeoffs to optimize strategy.
• Prepare teams for governance decisions and manage inputs (schedule, risk, budget).
• Accelerate critical path activities by challenging constraints.
• Ensure timely, high-quality data reporting across projects.

Skills

Project management

Risk management

Budgeting

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

BA/BS degree

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.