GSK · 16 hours ago
Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management
Cambridge, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$133K/yr - $221K/yr
7+ years expGSK is a global biopharma company committed to improving health through innovative vaccines and medicines. The Pipeline Project Manager will oversee drug/vaccine development projects, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and facilitating high-performance team dynamics.
BiotechnologyHealth CarePharmaceutical
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 Research Unit 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
Qualification
Required
BS in Life Sciences or Business related field
Minimum 7 years of project management experience in a matrix team environment in pharmaceutical R&D or related industry
Five or more years of experience in all aspects of project management, based on established PM principles and methods (e.g. PMI/PMBOK)
Five or more years of experience building and maintaining high-quality project plans, budget and resource forecasts, and project management documentation (key assumptions, risks, etc.)
Preferred
MS or PhD. in related field
PMP Certification
Experience facilitating the identification, visualization, and acceleration of the project's critical path, including the ability to explain the critical path activities and dependencies to project stakeholders
Demonstrated expertise in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated
Demonstrated proficiency in established PM planning tools
Demonstrated experience facilitating and documenting effective project team meetings
Understanding of drug/vaccine 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
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
Benefits
Annual bonus
Eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits
Paid holidays
Vacation
Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
Company
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.51MKey Investors
CARB-X
2021-03-02Grant· $18M
2020-09-23Grant· $7.51M
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Leadership Team
Julie Brown
CFO
Mike Elmore
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