Associate Director – Pipeline Project Management
GSK
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Upper Providence • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- 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.
- Lead team preparation for governance decisions and own 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in project, engineering, validation, or technical roles in a regulated environment.
- 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 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementrisk managementbudget forecastingresource forecastingcritical path managementscenario analysiscommunicationreportingvalidationengineering
Soft Skills
facilitationcollaborationtransparencyconflict resolutionteam buildingleadershiporganizational skillsdecision-makingrelationship buildingproblem-solving