ViiV Healthcare Project Management Director

ViiV Healthcare is a global specialty HIV company, the only one 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 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 for HIV. 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 are fully committed to 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 epidemic.

We are aware of how much is at stake for those affected by HIV and we show up every day 100% committed to the patients. Our work culture is fast-paced, diverse, inclusive, competitive, and caring. But ViiV isn’t just somewhere to work – it’s a place to belong, an invitation to bring your very best, and a team full of impact-driven team members who are hungry to make a difference. While we have been improving lives of HIV patients for 30 years, this is an especially exciting time to be at ViiV, as we evaluate novel approaches to treatment and prevention that could further reduce the impact of HIV on individuals and communities.

As an experienced life sciences Project Director, you will work in close collaboration with the Project Lead to provide operational and strategic leadership to the HIV matrix teams by working with functional area partners to deliver robust, fit for purpose plan, and oversee its execution. The role is responsible for generating scenario planning for the project team, enabling robust data-driven decision-making, and for the oversight and reporting of development program deliverables and objectives. Alongside the technical project management responsibilities, you will use your ‘soft skills’ to keep the matrix team motivated, aligned and focused on delivering the team’s critical path.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Influence the strategy, seamlessly integrate it into an endorsed development plan, optimize the critical path, and oversee its execution.
• Be accountable to, and work with, the Project Leader (and Project Team) to translate the strategy into a robust, competitive medicines development plan, with an optimized critical path and clear go/no go decision points.
• Define opportunities for acceleration and manage the assumptions regarding human resources and budget forecast.
• Proactively identify and escalate project risks or issues, and consider options to manage and minimize implications on project timelines, budgets, and goals.
• Monitor progress against approved project plans, noting deviations and suggesting corrective actions.
• Work with all functional lines to create alignment of overarching project development plans with functional area plans.
• Ensure source systems reflect the current project plan assumptions to enable integrated planning across the organization, and ability to track performance against baseline and current plan.
• Drive scenario planning and enable Governance / Decision-Making.
• Drive the preparation of strategic scenario analyses to achieve time, value, and budget advantages.
• Lead the preparation of documents for key governance meetings.
• Identify and manage project resource/budget requirements and anticipated variance, and work with the Project Leader and matrix team to ensure estimates are accurate, gaps are addressed, and progress tracked.
• Provide operational leadership of project team by overseeing the execution of the strategy.
• Manage project-level team meetings, ensure they have a structure and are effective.
• Document clear decisions/actions (minutes) that are communicated to team members and stakeholders.
• Keep the matrix team aligned and focused on the execution of the critical path.
• Take action to maintain effective dynamics and creating optimal team environment and performance.
• Utilize effective communication skills to facilitate appropriate information exchange between Functional Lines, Project Leader, and senior management; ensuring project information is quickly communicated to the appropriate stakeholders, in an agreed format and cadence, and in compliance with approved standards.
• Continuously enhance personal understanding and application of project management tools and methodologies in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Participate in process improvement initiatives and bring in external perspective and industry standard practices.
• Perform project data analyses and reporting, as needed.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 5 plus years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
• 10 plus years of Project Management Experience.
• Leadership Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Experience working with change management approaches on a range of projects/programs.
• Experience transitioning teams and organizations from a current state to a desired future state.

Preferred Qualifications:

• HIV drug development experience.
• Excellent leadership experience in a matrix environment.
• PMP or equivalent certification.
• Entrepreneurial spirit, strong judgement, and strong leadership skills including effective communication, emotional intelligence, influencing skills within a matrix and senior management (e.g. influence without authority), motivate others, and manage conflicts.
• Ability to foster a strong collaborative spirit internally and externally.

At ViiV Healthcare, we will not rest until we leave no person living with HIV behind. Until the 39 million people living with HIV is down to zero, we will continue searching for new ways to limit the impact of HIV. We are the only pharmaceutical company solely focused on combating, preventing, and ultimately eradicating HIV and AIDS. At ViiV Healthcare, we do things differently. Born out of a partnership between GSK and Pfizer in 2009, with Shionogi joining in 2012, we are determined to help end the HIV epidemic. We are guided by our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind and it is this mission that unites our employees located across the globe. We combine expertise in research, manufacturing, policy and more to push the boundaries of what people think is possible in HIV treatment and care. As a result of our connection with GSK, we are able to draw on their proud history and resources. This means that you would receive all the employee benefits offered by GSK.

Living our mission of leaving no person living with HIV behind means keeping inclusion and diversity at the heart of everything we do - from our breakthrough innovation, to our diverse portfolio of medicines as well as the work we do to partner with HIV communities. Having a truly inclusive culture where we’re all able to be ourselves and feel like we belong will make us an even stronger team, better able to perform as a business and deliver on our mission to leave no person living with HIV behind.