Vp, Project Management Standards and Technology

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Belgium-Wavre, UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage, USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence
**Posted Date**: Aug 4 2025

**VP, Project Management Standards and Technology**

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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**Position Summary**

**Are you ready to lead and transform Project Management excellence in a global biopharma organisation?**

At GSK, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced leader to join us as the **Vice President, Head of Project Management Technology & Standards**.

This is a pivotal role within our R&D organisation, responsible for shaping and driving the future of project management excellence, technology enablement, and data standards across our pipeline. You will lead a highly skilled global team and play a key role in advancing our R&D strategy while ensuring alignment, standardisation, and best practices across the organisation.

**Responsibilities**
- ** Lead PM Excellence**: Drive project management excellence across R&D, ensuring alignment, standardisation, and best practice sharing, while developing capabilities and frameworks for Research Unit-aligned project managers.
- ** Technology Leadership**: Oversee the operational health, maintenance, and improvement of the PPM platform (Planisware), ensuring it remains a best-in-class tool for driving pipeline delivery.
- ** Data Standards**: Ensure availability and quality of product and substance data in accordance with industry standards (IDMP), supporting robust project plans and decision-making.
- ** Global Health & ViiV Project Management**: Provide leadership for project management activities supporting the Global Health and ViiV pipelines, ensuring strong execution and delivery.
- ** Business Development Project Leadership**: Lead project management activities for business development deals, from pre-diligence through integration, in close collaboration with BD and Alliance Management teams.
- ** Benchmarking & Innovation**: Regularly benchmark externally to identify best-in-class practices and drive innovation in project and resource management disciplines, leveraging digital tools and future-focused approaches.
- ** Community Coordination**: Animate and coordinate the PPM community across R&D, fostering collaboration and alignment across teams globally.
- ** Talent Development**: Support the organisation in attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional project management experts, fostering a high-performing and inclusive team culture, working together towards one mission.

**Qualifications/Skills**

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Master’s degree in a scientific or business discipline;
- Substantial experience in large pharma, including pharmaceutical R&D or related industry experience.
- Proven track record of leading global project management functions where people are challenged, developed and talent management is driving performance.
- Demonstrated expertise in drug/vaccine discovery, development, and commercialisation processes, including driving pipeline acceleration, critical path optimisation, scenario planning, risk management, budget forecasting/management

**Preferred Qualifications**:
You will stand out if you also bring the following:

- MBA or PhD Degree
- PMP certification strongly preferred.
- Significant experience working with executive teams and influencing decision-making in complex, global environments.
- Strong and high-quality analytical, organisational, and problem-solving abilities.
- High level of creativity and innovation in developing new approaches and methodologies.
- Outstanding communication, negotiation, and influencing skills; ability to build personal credibility quickly, and assimilate business issues/needs
- Cultural awareness and ability to navigate multi-cultural environments effectively.

**Location**:
This role is based in the United Kingdom, United States or Belgium and offers a hybrid working model.

We’re looking for someone who is ready to make a difference, inspire others, and help us deliver on our mission to improve lives. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you

**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 posi