GSK - Senior Manager - Business Transformation

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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

- Lead execution of the assigned programs & projects & responsible for all project phases

- Lead, guide and support multiple workstream leads / consultants through the design and implementation of targeted strategies including identification of change impacts to people, process, policy, and structure, stakeholder identification and alignment, appropriate communication and feedback loops, success measures, training, organizational readiness, and long-term sustainability

- Manage the day-to-day activities, including scope, financials (e.g. business case, budget), resourcing (e.g. Full-time employees, roles and responsibilities, utilization), timelines and toll gates and risks

- Identify improvement and efficiency opportunities across the projects

- Implement project review and quality assurance to ensure successful execution of goals and stakeholder satisfaction

- Flex across a variety of different transformation initiatives across all our global support functions - (Finance, HR, Tech, Communications, Compliance, Procurement and Legal) and develop project delivery strategy to deliver complex business cases

- Consistently report and review progress to the Project Management Lead, Steering group and relevant stakeholders

- Analyze data, evaluate results, and develop recommendations and road maps across multiple workstreams

- May involve focus on one project or working across a portfolio of projects - typical types of projects would include operating model transformation / cost reduction, automation, outsourcing/offshoring and service transitions, regulatory changes etc. supporting both global and local geographies

- Partner with the Project Management Lead in setting up & implementing the Transformation roadmap for GCC

- Build and maintain effective partnerships with key cross functional leaders and project team members

- Engage with the wider GSK project management community, share best practices & update the community on learnings from the GCC

- We are looking for professionals with these skills to achieve our goals. If you have them, we would like to speak to you.

Experience :

- Your past roles would be as transformation/program/project/workstream manager or PMO/transformation office manager in sizeable transformation programmes in global corporations

- Demonstrable track record of delivery and impact in managing/delivering transformation, with minimum 12-17 years' experience in project management & transformation

- Experience in process improvement, continuous improvement, change management, operating model design, data analysis and visualisation

- Project management experience in Pharma is a plus, but not mandatory (Minimum requirement is a good understanding of the industry)

Education :

- Project management certification (PMI/CAPM or PMP/PgMP, PRINCE2)

- Understanding & application of Agile/ Lean/ 6- principles

- Familiarity with Service Management lifecycle (e.g. ITIL)

- Project Management tools and applications such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, PowerBI

- Agile (SAFe/SCRUM) and Lean Six Sigma Certifications

Skills :

- Excellent interpersonal (communication and presentation) and organizational skills

- Problem solving abilities and a can-do attitude

- Confident, proactive self-starters, comfortable in managing and engaging others

- Effective in engaging, partnering with and influencing stakeholders across the matrix up to VP level

- Ability to move fluidly between big picture and detail always keeping the end goal in mind

- Inclination toward collaborative partnership, and able to help establish/be part of high performing - teams for impact

- Highly diligent with close eye for detail. Delivers quality outputs

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.