Associate Director, Global Program Management (Oncology)

GSK is a global biopharma company focused on preventing and treating disease through specialty medicines and vaccines. The Associate Director, Global Program Management will manage oncology R&D pipeline programs, leading integrated planning, governance preparation, risk and budget management, critical-path acceleration, and cross-functional collaboration to support timely delivery of medicines to patients.

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

Skills
• 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
• 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
• Master's degree in a related field
• PMP Certification
• Oncology experience
• 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

Benefits
• Hybrid (Remote & On-site) work arrangement
• This position offers an annual bonus
• Eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program, dependent on the level of the role
• Health care and other insurance benefits for employee and family
• Retirement benefits
• Paid holidays
• Vacation
• Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave

Company Overview
• GSK manufactures pharmaceutical medicines, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products. It was founded in 2000, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.gsk.com.