# Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management for Business Development

**Company**: GSK
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,425 to $232,375
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

GSK has bold ambitions to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. The Associate Director, Pipeline Project Management for Business Development provides R&D project management for Business Development opportunities and transactions.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Provide R&D project management throughout diligence, contracting, and integration by identifying critical path activities, resource constraints, and execution risks.

- Develop integrated cross-functional development plans for Business Development opportunities, aligning strategy, timelines, resources, costs, assumptions, dependencies, and key value drivers.

- Facilitate cross-functional evaluation of development and integration scenarios by challenging assumptions, facilitating trade-off discussions, identifying risks and opportunities, and recommending mitigation and acceleration strategies.

- Liaise with BD colleagues to ensure the appropriate subject matter experts (SMEs)/functional leads are included in diligence and knowledge transfer/integration discussions.

- Support BD as needed in reviewing the contract and ensuring inclusion of information related to tech transfer obligation.

- Set expectations and timelines with SMEs and hold them accountable for delivering on their due diligence and knowledge transfer responsibilities.

- Manage moderately complex R&D integration, separation, and reversion activities across all therapeutic areas and stages of development.

- Drive governance readiness through development of high-quality plans, risk assessments, and recommendations.

- Contribute to continuous improvement of PPM BD processes, tools, and ways of working.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field.

- Minimum 7 years of experience in R&D, drug/vaccine development or related experience.

- Minimum 3 years of experience in a global project or portfolio management role.

- Two or more years of experience utilizing Planisware, MS project, or similar tools.

- Two or more years of experience assessing risk, budgets, and resource management.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Advanced degree (PhD or MS in Life Sciences or related field or MBA).

- PMP certification.

- Experience working in matrixed, cross-functional environment.

- Experience with Business Development due diligence and/or Integration/Divestment management.

- Experience in Oncology, Respiratory, or Infectious Disease PM.

**Salary:** For locations in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $139,425 to $232,375.

**Benefits:** Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits, retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

## Skills

### Required
- Communication
- Cross-Departmental Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Financial Acumen
- Innovation
- Leadership
- Project Controls
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Leadership

### Nice to have
- PMP certification
- Planisware
- MS project
- Oncology
- Respiratory
- Infectious Disease PM

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