Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, Belgium-Wavre, GSK House, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage
Posted Date: May 22 2024
The GSK R&D PPM DDAP team (R&D Pipeline Project Management – Digital, Data, Analytics, and Performance) is accountable for enabling GSK's R&D planning, operations, and decision making by equipping asset development teams, functional staff, and senior leaders with industry-leading project and resource management tools, methodologies, analyses, business process design, performance measurement, and consultative support.
The PPM DDAP Digital Platforms team is responsible for the administration of Project Management software systems, management of business and system processes related to project management, and administration of cloud infrastructure used internally within PPM DDAP. Responsibilities include licensing and access management, support and training, and working with our R&D Tech colleagues to plan, implement, and test system enhancements and installations, etc. This team is also responsible for the quality of the data within the systems.
Key Responsibilities:
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following.In collaboration with enterprise teams, the Associate Director, Project Management Platforms responsibilities will be:

Be accountable for the stewardship of planning systems that enable core R&D activities and processes such as:

• Cross-functional drug development project management
• Capacity management, resource management, and resource forecasting
• Budgeting, cost planning, and cost forecasting
• Operational data quality and metrics
• Proactively engage the Planisware community to determine and ensure that priority, business-critical needs are addressed and partner with our Tech organization to implement new product releases, new enhancements, bug fixes and other maintenance activities, etc.
• Prioritize and manage the Planisware system book of work, focusing internal and external resources on business-critical activities
• Ensure the business requirements of the R&D planning system user community are met
• Ensure minimal disruption to Planisware functionality and services provided through routine monitoring, maintenance, and upgrades
• Ensure alignment with R&D and enterprise initiatives, business capabilities, and solutions to avoid negative downstream impacts and enable broader business priorities
• Provide Planisware training and support to the project management community

Why you?Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Undergraduate (BA/BS) degree required
• 8 or more years of professional experience in the life sciences or biopharmaceutical industry
• Experience with business process design and performance measurement
• Experience with project, portfolio, resource, cost, and budget management (processes and tools)
• Experience in assessing business-critical needs, developing business strategy, translating strategy into operating models and actionable plans, managing program execution.
• Experience with agile development methodologies and technology, business intelligence solution design, development, testing, and lifecycle management

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

• Business acumen and comfort in agile delivery and learning environment
• Highly effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to deliver measurable business value
• Business-oriented and strategic mindset
• Digital and PPM technology acumen
• Planisware or project management systems experience

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