Associate Director, Pipeline Program Management

GSK

Associate Director at GSK managing pipeline project activities to accelerate drug delivery. Leading project plans and facilitating cross-functional team collaboration for complex pharmaceutical projects.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeUpper Providence • Massachusetts, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,425 - $232,375 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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. (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.
Expertise in managing project risks, ensuring that the risks across functions are appropriately identified, measured, managed, and communicated.
Experience facilitating and documenting effective project team meetings.
Proficiency in established PM planning tools.
Experience leading or contributing to organizational project management capabilities and PM-related improvement initiatives as needed.

Benefits

Comp & perks

health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
retirement benefits
paid holidays
vacation
paid caregiver/parental and medical leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

project managementrisk managementcritical path managementscenario analysisplanning and executionbudget forecastingresource forecastingproject documentationPMIPMBOK

Soft Skills

facilitation skillsteam collaborationcommunicationconflict resolutionrelationship buildingtransparencypsychological safetydecision-makingstakeholder engagementcross-functional management