Senior Pipeline Project Lead, Strategy & Delivery

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company, the only company that is 100% focused on researching and delivering new medicines for people living with, and at risk of, HIV. ViiV is highly mission-driven in our unrelenting commitment to leave no person living with HIV behind. We do this by being a trusted partner for all people living with and affected by HIV. Our aim is to think, act, and connect differently through a focus on education on and treatment. We go to extraordinary lengths to deliver the sorts of breakthroughs, both in treatments, care solutions and communities, that really count. We go beyond the boundaries of medicine by taking a holistic approach to HIV through developing and supporting sustainable community programs and improving access to care. We will push through every challenge until HIV/AIDS is eradicated. ViiV has played a significant part in delivering breakthroughs that have turned HIV into a manageable health condition. We offer the largest portfolio of HIV medicines available anywhere, and we continue our work to cater for the widest possible range of needs in response to the HIV pandemic.

In this role you will:

• Facilitate and/or contribute to asset strategy and evidence strategy, and lead development of the integrated project plan to ensure feasibility and alignment with therapeutic area strategy, prioritization, and pipeline performance objectives.
• Own the single integrated plan that builds team commitment to shared goals with schedules and budgets based on clear dependencies and assumptions.
• Lead options planning, generate recommendations, alternatives, and trade-offs to strengthen decision-making and optimize the project strategy.
• Lead team preparation for governance decisions and own schedule, risk, and budget inputs.
• Identify opportunities to accelerate milestones by challenging constraints that impact critical path and near-critical path activities.
• Orchestrate seamless handoffs with focus on the critical path through proactive project plan monitoring, risk management, and cross-functional management of project issues with timely escalation to leadership as required.
• Ensure rigor, consistency, and compliance in established systems to drive timely, high-quality data and reporting in and across projects.
• Build trusting relationships with the team and stakeholders to encourage transparency and collaboration.
• Use strong facilitation skills to lead regular project team meetings and apply consistent best practices for meeting agendas, actions, minutes, and other meeting documentation.
• Establish and sustain agreed-upon ways of working for effective team communication, decisions, and conflict resolution.

Core responsibilities include:

• Applying a holistic perspective and broad knowledge of pharmaceutical development to help teams test ideas and optimize strategy.
• Empowering teams to challenge convention, manage uncertainty, and accelerate delivery of critical milestones.
• Continuously assessing progress and clearing the way for uninterrupted focus on the critical path.
• Building high-performance teams by cultivating trust and outcomes-focused ways of working.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in life sciences OR technical discipline (e.g. drug discovery & development OR biology OR biochemistry OR immunology OR pharmacology OR toxicology).
• 5 plus years of experience in Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery/Pre-Clinical and/or Early-Phase Development project management experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech/contract research industry.
• Experience delivering drug development projects within agreed time, cost, and quality and developing, maintaining, and reporting on integrated project plans within enterprise management systems.
• Experience leading, integrating, influencing, motivating, and inspiring high performing cross functional matrix teams.
• Experience with stakeholder management and developing executive level scientific/business case briefing presentations for governance interactions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills and the strong ability to convey complex information clearly and succinctly.
• Knowledge of GSK/ViiV processes and systems.
• Specific knowledge and experience in infectious disease (e.g. HIV).
• Advanced degree in a scientific discipline and/or MBA.
• Formal Project Management Training or Certification (e.g. PMP).

ViiV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.