Director, Oncology Translational Medicine Projects

GSK; Collegeville (PA); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK is seeking a Director, Oncology Translational Medicine Project Manager to lead cross‑functional execution of biomarker strategies and external alliances for its Oncology portfolio. You will partner with Scientific Operations, Regulatory, and Clinical teams to drive regulatory submissions, manage budgets, and ensure high‑quality data packages for asset development and approvals.

The role requires strong program management skills, strategic planning, and ability to coordinate multi‑institution

Responsibilities

• Lead operational oversight of external alliances and academic collaborations focused on biomarker discovery and acceleration
• Support scientific and business leads in establishing alliance objectives, scope, and success metrics
• Coordinate meeting forums with partners (joint project team, working groups), ensuring decisions, actions, and risks are clearly documented and followed through
• Translate the collaboration strategy and vision into integrated, detailed project plans (scope, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, risks)
• Track alliance workplans for biomarker discovery, assay development, etc., ensuring partner deliverables align with internal scientific needs and timelines
• Monitor performance against agreed milestones and KPIs (e.g. data generation, sample throughput); coordinate course‑corrections where needed
• Support contracting activities, SOW development, and operational oversight for external alliances, in collaboration with Procurement and Study Leads
• Coordinate alliance‑related budgets: track spend vs. plan, support PO/invoice workflows, and reconcile against contracted scopes
• Monitor progress versus plan; proactively identify issues and interdependencies, elevate as needed, and coordinate cross‑functional mitigation plans
• Schedule, structure, and run alliance meetings and project team meetings (set agendas, pre‑reads, minutes, action logs), track and drive closure of decisions and actions
• Build and maintain integrated plans and tracking for CPMS components of regulatory submissions (data packages, reports, validation summaries) across the Oncology portfolio
• Support compliance with regulatory expectations by organizing CPMS documentation and tracking contributions to regulatory submissions
• Track status of required documents, reviews, and approvals; proactively identify gaps and risks to submission readiness and coordinate mitigation and escalation
• Coordinate the creati

Job description

GSK is seeking a Director, Oncology Translational Medicine Project Manager to lead cross‑functional execution of biomarker strategies and external alliances for its Oncology portfolio. You will partner with Scientific Operations, Regulatory, and Clinical teams to drive regulatory submissions, manage budgets, and ensure high‑quality data packages for asset development and approvals.

The role requires strong program management skills, strategic planning, and ability to coordinate multi‑institution