Senior Project Manager

Business Introduction
We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.
Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.
We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.
Position Summary

As a Senior Project Manager at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), you will be responsible for leading and managing the engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning/ qualification activities of pharmaceutical manufacturing facility projects from concept through completion. You will oversee the design, planning, execution, and delivery of projects, ensuring they meet safety, quality, scope, schedule, and cost requirements. Your role will involve coordination of large cross-functional teams, managing tasks on schedule, supervising resources, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and safety standards.

In this role, you will leverage your strong technical expertise and leadership skills to drive the successful execution of complex construction/engineering projects of pharmaceutical facilities designed for drug substance and drug product manufacturing. You will work closely with stakeholders, including internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and local authorities to ensure project objectives are achieved. Your ability to concurrently manage multiple tasks or projects, solve technical and operational challenges, communicate effectively, and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment will be key to your success.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.

Your key responsibilities include the management of construction/engineering projects of pharmaceutical facilities that are designed to produce drug substance and drug products, from concept, through detailed engineering, procurement, construction, to qualification. You will successfully lead the development, execution and delivery of these projects to meet or exceed safety, quality, scope, schedule, and cost objectives. These responsibilities include some of the following:

Responsibilities

• Project Delivery: Lead all aspects of the delivery of the project including bidding process, vendor selection, contractor onboarding, construction phasing, construction safety, facility fit out, equipment installation, utility connection, prestart up activities, SAT, commissioning, IQ and OQ, and transfer of assets to manufacturing for process qualification.

• Project Management: Lead key aspects of the project management and be accountable for delivering projects on scope, schedule and cost. Should be skilled in relevant areas including resource loaded schedule development, critical path analysis, schedule derisking, schedule management, cost basis assessment, cost control, quantity estimate, quality control, and change management.

• Project Engineering: Lead and/or contribute to the scoping, concept, basic, and detailed design/engineering of pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing facilities including, facility systems, clean utilities, process equipment, process automation, building automation systems, clean rooms, cold chains, and effluent handling systems.

• Project Control: Experience developing relevant leading and lagging project KPIs such as SV, BV, EV, CPI, SPI, OTCI, CSAT, and NOCR and use them to proactively assess and control the progress of the project.

• Construction Management and Safety: Experience developing and executing construction plan for large capex projects, mobilization of trades/equipment/materials, securing appropriate permits, implementing rigorous construction safety processes and metrics, and complying with local (OSHA) and global construction safety processes to complete the construction in the most efficient manner with zero safety incidents or lost time.

• Project Commissioning: Experience generating Turnover packages (TOP) of facility, utility, process, equipment, and automation systems to successfully complete the commissioning of pharma R&D and manufacturing facilities. Experience leading checkout, dry run, wet run, punch list, SAT, commissioning, Installation Qualification, Operational Qualification, change control strategy, validation strategy, and the development and execution of related protocols and reports.

• Project Communication: Experience developing and delivering communication plan for the project, including tier meetings, steering meetings, safety reviews, gate reviews, and town halls. Maintain effective dialogue with stakeholders, leadership, site personnel, contractor base, and key departments including engineering, facilities, quality, finance, and validation.

Why You?
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, life sciences, construction management, or a related technical discipline.

• 10+ years of prior project and/or engineering experience in the pharmaceutical industry

• Prior project experience in the design, construction, start-up and operation of large bulk biopharmaceutical drug substance AND drug product fill / finish facilities.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and third-party vendors in a matrix environment.

• Experience with Design, Installation, and Commissioning / Qualification / Validation of new pharmaceutical equipment and/or utilities.

Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus

• Master’s Degree or higher; PMP Certification

• Proven track record owning project budgets, schedules and risk management for multi-million dollar programs.

• Must be able to interact well with peers, subordinates, and senior personnel in scientific, engineering, and operational disciplines.

• Demonstrated ability to participate as a leader or member on cross-functional and self-directed work teams.

• Must be comfortable and thrive in ambiguity and think strategically to solve complex problems. 

• Experience in Risk Management

• Strong interpersonal communication skills and ability to thrive in a dynamic team environment

• Ability to prioritize and flexibility to adapt to changing business schedules and deadlines

• Ability to take initiative and work proactively with creative problem-solving skills

• Strong technical writing skills

• Influence, persuasion, and or change management

• GPS, Six Sigma, OE, or similar continuous improvement methodologies

• Ability to work in a digital engineering environment

• Proficiency in project scheduling software and tools (e.g., MS Project, Primavera 6 (P6), MS Timeline).

• ICT skills (software, operating systems, hardware, etc.)

• Digitization and electronic work environment experience, including experience with MES, CAD, large language models for improving efficiency, and application of digital tools to improving performance.

• Position may require employees to work shifts, holidays, and weekends

• Proficiency with ERP (ex/SAP) and Power Apps

Working arrangement
This role is hybrid. You will be expected on-site two to three days per week and work remotely for the remaining days.
How to apply
If this role matches your skills and ambitions, please apply now. Tell us how your experience will help our teams deliver projects safely, on time and with lasting value. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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