Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management

Role Summary

Associate Director of Pipeline Project Management to support Discovery & Early Development across the HIV and/or Global Health portfolio. Responsible for integration and management of cross-functional project teams to plan and achieve key strategic objectives and development milestones.

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 therapeutic area 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 trade-offs 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 milestones 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 practices 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. Be inclusive, cultivate psychological safety, and ensure that all relevant voices are heard to strengthen outcomes and foster broad commitment.
• Work on any assignment as directed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant life sciences discipline (e.g. drug discovery & development, biology, biochemistry, immunology, pharmacology, toxicology, etc.).
• Substantial Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery/Pre-Clinical and/or Early-Phase Development project management experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech/contract research industry.
• Proven track record of delivering complex drug development projects within time, cost, and quality constraints; experience with integrated project plans in enterprise systems (e.g., Planisware) including critical path timelines, budgets, resource forecasts, and risk assessments.
• Ability to lead, integrate, influence, motivate, and inspire high-performing cross-functional matrix teams; ability to foster trust and drive issue resolution and decision making.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal, and presentation) with experience in stakeholder management and creating executive-level briefings for governance decisions.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating and documenting effective project team meetings.
• Highly driven and able to prioritize, organize, and execute multiple activities in tandem.

Skills

• Project management leadership
• Cross-functional team leadership
• Strategic planning and risk management
• Governance and decision support
• Stakeholder management
• Effective communication and facilitation

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant life sciences discipline (required).
• Advanced degree or MBA (preferred).
• Formal Project Management Training or Certification (e.g., PMP) (preferred).

Additional Requirements

• Specific knowledge and experience in infectious diseases (e.g., HIV and/or infectious diseases of global health importance) and experience within a pharmaceutical HIV/global health franchise (preferred).