Business Introduction
GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems. Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines. Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.
Position Summary
You will lead the PMO End to End Marketing function and support delivery of integrated marketing programmes. You will work closely with marketing, commercial, medical, supply and external partners to plan, prioritise and track projects from concept to market. We value clear communicators who can simplify complex plans, build strong relationships, and drive delivery with integrity. This role offers growth, visible impact and the chance to help GSK unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career.
Responsibilities
- Program Governance & Orchestration: Establish and lead the transformation management framework. Define program milestones, manage interconnected workstreams (process, tech, people), and maintain the master roadmap for the 'future-ready' marketing initiative.
- Operating Model Governance: Establish and enforce decision frameworks through implementation for key trade-offs (global vs local, automation vs compliance, speed vs rigor), ensuring consistent and scalable operating model execution across markets.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Act as the central connector between Marketing, Tech/Digital, Medical/Legal/Compliance (MLR), and local market leadership. Ensure all functions are marching to the same drumbeat and dependencies are actively managed.
- Benefits Realization & Tracking: Own the program dashboard. Track and report on the actual realization of the transformation's business cases including KPIs – e.g., tool usage, process compliance, behaviour change) and drive the implementation of targeted interventions (training, incentives, market enablement).
- Risk & Issue Mitigation: Proactively identify roadblocks, resource bottlenecks, or resistance to change across global and local teams. Develop robust mitigation strategies and elevate critical issues to senior leadership with proposed solutions.
- Resource & Budget Management: Oversee the allocation of resources (budget, internal talent, and external consultants/vendors) across the various transformation workstreams to ensure maximum ROI and efficient delivery.
- Stakeholder Communication: Design and execute a comprehensive communication cadence. Keep executive sponsors informed of progress while ensuring broader marketing teams understand the 'why', 'what', and 'when' of the transformation.
- Quality Assurance of Delivery: Ensure that the new workflows, LLM-enabled tools, and operating models designed by the team are rigorously tested, piloted, and validated before broad global-to-local rollouts.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business, marketing, project management or related field.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in project or programme management within pharmaceutical, biotech, consumer health or related industries.
- Proven experience managing cross‑functional projects involving marketing and commercial teams.
- Strong planning and organisational skills, including experience with project plans, Gantt charts or equivalent tools.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Right to work and based in the United Kingdom; this role is hybrid with an expectation to be on‑site part‑time (typically 2–3 days per week).
Preferred Qualifications
- Formal project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APM, PMI) or equivalent training.
- Experience working within regulated industries and familiarity with compliance needs for marketing activities.
- Hands‑on experience with PMO tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar.
- Prior experience supporting product launch readiness and cross‑functional launch teams.
- Strong financial awareness with experience tracking budgets and commercial impact.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and develop more junior project managers and contributors.
Equal Opportunity
We are committed to inclusion and creating a workplace where everyone is respected and can thrive. GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
