Job Overview
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 apply a holistic perspective and broad knowledge of drug development to help R&D teams test ideas and optimize strategy, empower teams to challenge convention, manage uncertainty, and accelerate delivery of critical milestones.
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. Work on any assignment as directed.
Basic Qualifications
* Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, project management, or related discipline; or equivalent practical experience.
* 5+ 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 (e.g. 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.
* Expertise in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
* Proficiency in established PM planning tools.
* Experience leading or contributing to organizational project management capabilities and PM‑related improvement initiatives as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
* Master's in science, engineering, business, or related field.
* 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.
* Oncology drug development experience is preferred, but not required.
* Experience leading or partnering with project leaders to establish and sustain a high‑performance team environment.
* Demonstrated ability to build trust and strengthen collaborative relationships with matrixed team members across teams, sub‑teams, and functions.
* Demonstrated ability to identify, capture, share, and apply learnings and best‑practice across projects.
* Demonstrated experience proactively collaborating with a wide variety of project, functional, and leadership stakeholders.
* Demonstrated experience supporting teams with robust critical thinking, innovation, negotiation, and influencing skills to achieve positive outcomes.
* Central role in a fast‑paced, matrix project team environment focused on accelerating delivery of lifesaving and life‑changing medicines and vaccines.
* Highly complex environment and working across various functional departments.
* Require ability to understand drug development process and strategy, external landscape, and organizational complexity and capability, and apply project management expertise to formulate and test strategies and options, translate into viable plans, and lead cross‑functional execution while managing risk.
* Large, complex, multi‑year projects with significant cost and resource requirements.
Benefits & Compensation
Salary ranges for this role in the United States are $139,425 to $232,375. The position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in a share‑based long‑term incentive program. Benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
EEO Statement
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.
Compliance Note
Applicants who are US Licensed Healthcare Professionals or Healthcare Professionals as defined by the laws of the state issuing the license may be required to provide additional documentation for compliance with federal and state transparency requirements.
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