Business Transformation Project Manager: R&D, Tech, Digital
- Stockley Park, Middlesex (GBR)
- £420 - £465 Per Day
- 10 Months
- Start date: ASAP
- Ref: BTPM-TBC
- digital
- business change
- coaching
- risk management
- budgets
- project plan
- governance
- management
- critical path analysis
- reporting
- communication
- resource management
- strategy
- business requirements
- project manager
Job description
Posted 21 February 2020
Business Transformation Project Manager: R&D, Tech, Digital
Details:
- The purpose of this role is to provide the project management skills, capabilities and discipline across the business project lifecycle with a clear business perspective for a) Business Change Projects and or b) Combined business and technology programmes. This will further enable R&D and the Change Delivery group to effectively and successfully drive change projects and programmes, major investments, organisational and or process change.
- Drive and project manage global, cross-functional, business improvement programmes across the lifecycle of programmes / projects
- For programmes with a technology components the coordination & integration with Tech PM in delivery of technologies to business requirements
- Deliver measurable and sustained improvements to the execution of change projects primarily (but not exclusively) within the R&D arena.
- Apply, propagate and embed appropriate PMO Project methodologies and best practice to assigned projects
- May provide a level of project management coaching and development as required across project teams
- Maintain a level of governance and control across the operations of the project
- Enable the efficient and effective execution of Project, clear integrated plan to delivery, budget management, change control, risk management, resource management and stakeholder / team project reporting
- Ultimately driving delivery-to- plan of change programmes
- Ensure the project is set-up for success (i.e. clear roles and responsibilities; appropriate team structure)
- Prepares and drives progress against overall project plan (working with Tech PM for Tech elements)
- When required manages Business Project Spend against approved funding
- Maintains Best practice in deliverable progress, decision tracking, risks management, budgets etc
- Effective communication with business sponsors around status of project and any required interventions
- Negotiate solutions and address emergent concerns with broad buy-in across key delivery partners
- Ability to Formulate of Project delivery strategy, plan and schedule critical path analysis with ‘buy in’ across a matrix team.
- To Manage and maintain resource demand aligned to agreed project plan,
- To Manage and coordinate team members or larger, towards project delivery
- Establish maintain and actively manage risk across project / programmes
- For Project management issues drive cross-functional meetings towards actionable outcomes and resolution
- Have fluency in GSK's R&D processes, and organisational structure
Needs to effectively interact with a broad range of people - from senior leadership to front line teams and with external partners. Key capabilities include
- Teamwork
- Manage and coordinate team towards effective and successful delivery
- Have a programme leadership approach that inspires confidence, buy-in and followership
- Stakeholder management
- Effectively listen, interpret and playback objectives, deliverables and points of view
- Negotiate solutions with broad buy-in through syndicating and addressing concerns
- Deliver succinct "top-down" messages in both expected and unexpected exchanges
- Drive and project manage global, cross-functional, business improvement programmes across the lifecycle of programmes / projects
- For programmes with a technology components the coordination & integration with Tech PM in delivery of technologies to business requirements
- Deliver measurable and sustained improvements to the execution of change projects primarily (but not exclusively) within the Clinical Development arena.
- Apply, propagate and embed appropriate PMO Project methodologies and best practice to assigned projects
- May provide project management coaching and development as required across project teams
- Maintain a level of governance and control across the operations of the project
Additional information about the process
About GSK:
GSK is a science-led global healthcare company that researches and develops a broad range of innovative medicines and brands. Our products are used by millions of people around the world, helping them to do more, feel better and live longer. Employing over 100,000 people globally, we have 71 manufacturing sites around the world. For more information on GSK please refer to our website: www.gsk.com
