# Project Director

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Stevenage, Hertfordshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Project Director to lead the delivery of a UK campus fit-out for a new collaboration hub and lab facility. The successful candidate will oversee a complex capital programme that delivers meaningful change for our UK business.

Responsibilities:

- Lead full lifecycle delivery of the campus fit out, ensuring scope, schedule, cost and quality commitments are achieved.

- Accountable for ongoing contract governance for outsourced project management and construction delivery organisations.

- Build strong relationships with key R&D leaders and wider stakeholders across functions and levels.

- Own the integrated delivery plan, coordinating resources and critical path activities to keep execution on track.

- Design and oversee change and communications plans to support smooth transitions and strong employee engagement.

- Proactively manage programme risks, issues and budgets, and provide clear, data-driven progress updates to senior stakeholders.

- Coach and develop project teams, creating an inclusive environment that supports learning, accountability and high performance.

Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Project Management, Engineering or Business.

- Proven ability to manage complex engineering projects in a pharmaceutical R&D facility.

- Proven experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders to secure decisions and resources.

- Strong track record in planning and delivering change.

- Practical skills in risk management, financial oversight and programme governance.

- Clear communicator with experience coaching teams and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Preferred Qualification:

- Master’s degree in Project Management, Engineering or Business related subject.

- Sound technical knowledge of the pharmaceutical R&D process and GxP / project management requirements.

- Ability to establish strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external contract partners.

- Thorough understanding of statutory legislation in a technically complex environment.

- Proven ability to translate strategy into practical delivery plans and measurable benefits.

- Comfortable working in ambiguity and able to act with sound judgement and pace.

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## Skills

### Required
- Change Management
- Communication
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Financial Acumen
- Leadership
- Portfolio Management
- Project Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Engagement

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Project Management
- Engineering or Business related subject
- Sound technical knowledge of the pharmaceutical R&D process

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