Strategic Projects Manager

Posted Date: Dec 23 2024

As a Strategic Project Manager, you will oversee and manage tactical and strategic projects, ensuring their effective execution through thorough planning, tracking, and risk analysis. The role involves building and motivating a high-performing project team, coordinating internal and external resources to meet project scope, schedule, and budget requirements. It also includes regular analysis and adjustments to project plans, maintaining strong stakeholder relationships, and ensuring compliance with local laws, regulations, and standard operating procedures.

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

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives across multiple business lines.
• Provide leadership for the project(s) team(s) to meet goals and achieve milestones.
• Oversee full project lifecycle, from initiation to deployment, for multiple projects simultaneously.
• Establish practices, policies, tools, and partnerships to enhance project capabilities.
• Deliver executive-level communication and status reporting on project milestones.
• Oversee budget control for projects, including financial reporting and variance analysis.
• Develop resource plans and optimize resource allocation.
• Implement continuous improvement initiatives for project management processes.
• Define and track KPIs to measure project success and team performance.
• Mentor and provide guidance to junior team members.
• Ensures archiving, documentation and audit readiness in a sustainable approved platform
• Applies technology when and where possible using advanced tools, software and applications that can enhance projects

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• University Degree, MBA is preferred
• Minimum of one year in project management is preferred (As full time project manager or part of current job)
• Effective leadership and communication skills with minimal supervision.
• Creative and analytical problem-solving skills, demonstrating teamwork and innovation.
• Strong listening skills and the ability to build mutual trust and respect among team members.
• Ability to drive results, work independently, and handle ambiguity in a cross-functional environment.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and planning skills.
• Influential and adaptable team player, comfortable under pressure and deadline driven.
• Commitment to confidentiality, integrity, and compliance with regulations, laws, codes, and SOPs.
• Able to drive projects using classic project management and/or Agile/Scrum methodologies and exceptional analytical skills is preferred.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Industry experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, Commercial, finance, or life sciences is a plus.
• Knowledge and experience in Saudi Market dynamics and regulations is a plus.

Closing date:

30/12/2024

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.

Contact information:

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