Are you looking to expand your expertise in project management and drive change in an environment that allows you to design novel approaches and solutions?  If so, this General Project Management Director role could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

As a General Project Management Project Director, you will be responsible for enabling the business to effectively drive change, and work with stakeholders and business partners at all levels of the organization to align and deliver the strategic direction of the business.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

Strategy & Business Change

•  Support the alignment and delivery of the business strategy in line with the overarching strategy of GSK - Innovation, Performance and Trust

•  Facilitate the development of the business unit plan aligned with the new business strategy. Enable and support the implementation of major change initiatives that help deliver the strategy.

•  Create and implement appropriate change management (including communication) plans applying the GSK Framework and supporting toolkit that maximize employee engagement and manage natural organisational resistance to support change initiatives.

Enhance effectiveness

•  Serve as a member of business Leadership Team (LT), sponsor key cross team responsibilities as appropriate

•  Lead the business program governance activities to facilitate efficiency improvements

•  Design and support regular global communications for the business.

Engagement:

•  Maintain and expand networks across the business and the wider GSK community

•  Work with the business communication team to create impactful communications on exciting and impactful projects related to the business as well as other news / topics across the wider GSK community

•  Listen to the voice of the customer (VOC), model GSK Behaviours and lead by example

•  Create a supportive atmosphere in which to provide coaching, feedback and help to senior leaders and staff

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated Project leadership and management skills
• Practical experience working with change management approaches on a range of projects / programs
• Experience transitioning teams and organizations from a current state to a desired future state

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Advanced Degree, preferably in sciences or Business Administration
• Highly motivated, agile & adept learning ability;
• Ability to thoughtfully challenge status-quo
• Strong ability to influence at all levels of the organisation, particularly directors to VP level
• Drives change with a high degree of trust and credibility, providing clear project focus and direction

Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.

Why GSK?

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

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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