Associate Director- GSC Strategy Programme Management

Job Purpose:

The GSC Strategy team designs the supply chains to bring world class GSK medicines and vaccines to patients. The Strategy team is responsible for product and network strategy, including the delivery of Strategic programmes.    The team has a clear ambition to be “Best in Industry Strategy team” of highly talented people.

This role provides project and programme management for complex strategic projects spanning multiple sites/products, where a strong expertise in project management is needed. This role works closely with the project sponsors and business leads, to understand the scope and deliverables, mobilise project teams and mange the projects from initiation through to completion and track benefit delivery.

The person uses standard tools to manage the project or programme, provides project management expertise, coaching and support to members of the project team.

Key Responsibilities:

- Work with the sponsor and business lead to understand and define the scope and deliverables of each project or programme.
- Engage with functional teams and manufacturing sites to secure resources and mobilise the cross-functional project team.
- Clarify roles and responsibilities within project teams and ensure day to day decision making and project compliance with GSK's wider program and/or portfolio management decision-making structures and processes.
- Establish standard project management oversight; including development of the plan, tracking and reporting of progress, risks, issues and interdependencies. Input to governance and portfolio oversight e.g. steering teams, Monthly Performance Review.
- Facilitate development and approval of the project budget, and manage spend to deliver within budget.
- Contribute to stakeholder engagement by identifying internal transactional/operational stakeholders; finding out their needs, issues, and concerns; and by reacting to these needs, issues, and concerns to support the communication of business information project updates and decisions.
- Provide stakeholders with accurate and relevant information and provide input to governance papers to enable others to present and make recommendations regarding project status, risks, issues and escalations.
- Provide support to, and share best practise with, other members of the project team.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's Degree with 15+years of overall professional experience.
- Experience of working in Pharma supply chains and knowledge of manufacturing processes.
- Good experience in E2E supply chain design and operations .

- Awareness of the supply chain or business area and key priorities to inform day to day activities in support of programme execution.
- Demonstrated project leadership and management skills.
- Demonstrated effective communications skills both written & oral coupled with the ability to tailor to any one of a wide variety of audiences.
- Attention to detail; a focus on output, content & delivery to ensure that there is tangible progress.
- Agile and willingness to learn.
- Capacity to adapt priorities, organization and promote change management. Ability to work with tight deadlines.
- Experience with continuous improvement
- Ability to work cross-functionally and use networks throughout GSK
- Strong communication skills are essential

Skills
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

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

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