Director, Portfolio & RTE (EUS) Stevenage, England
Job description
Posted Date: Feb 6 2023
Are you energized by leading a portfolio of projects and programs that span multiple stakeholders?
If so the Director, Portfolio & RTE (EUS) is a great opportunity for you.
GSK Digital and Tech is looking for an experienced, organized, self-driven, and results-oriented technology portfolio manager to lead delivery of End User Services (EUS) technology. EUS technologies include laptops, mobiles, Meeting room services, Mobile technology, Microsoft suite of office tools, Printers, RF Guns and other end user facing technologies.
In this role, you will lead the EUS portfolio agile sprints, projects and programs that span multiple stakeholders, including product owners, engineers, operators, compliance specialists, finance and legal partners, and others.
You will build bridges among these stakeholders to communicate visions and objectives, define project plans, align resources and priorities, and drive the delivery of innovative solutions to support the GSK business.
Key Responsibilities:
Work with appropriate leaders and project sponsors to understand the requirements.
Ensure appropriate resource allocation and onboarding supplementary resources via Strategic Partners for support of global work packages.
Lead a global matrix team (US, UK, India & Poland) to deliver solutions and processes in support of project objectives and requirements – leading the project team and motivating all team members with clear direction and communication.
Manage the project plans, budget, risks and issues, calling out to senior management when appropriate.
Identify and actively monitor delivery of external dependencies.
Define the deployment strategy and prepare and complete the project plan – ensuring the project solution is transition to full support post-delivery.
Work closely with other GSK Tech groups to ensure adequate resources are deployed to ensure delivery.
Collaborate with GP&T product owners to identify appropriate resourcing plans, leveraging both internal resources and contracting with strategic partners to deliver defined deliverables.
Ensure effective communications planning, leadership identification and engagement, regular status reporting to key business leaders, both within GP&T (internal) and with the appropriate programme (customer).
Build close working relationships with customers, engineering teams and relevant business contacts to ensure i) confidence is built and maintained, ii) all parties are informed and engaged during the project, and iii) the solution supports the GP&T adoption by new markets and delivers maximum benefit.
Establishes strategic direction in assigned area, by influencing and negotiating successful outcomes with senior leaders inside and outside of GP&T (at SVP, VP and Tech LT levels).
Recommends and manages intelligent risk taking, with high transparency and with a clear willingness to be held accountable.
Supports leadership address high risk, high impact situations with clear analysis, high transparency and a sense of partnership, even if faced with significant adversity or major obstacles.
Why You!
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for individuals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or equivalent years of experience in Technology.
5 years of experience delivering sophisticated infrastructure related projects in large scale global Life Sciences, healthcare or financial industry or a highly regulated environment.
5 years or more experience delivering complex projects/programmes or acting as a SAFe Release Train Engineer for initiatives/projects related to connectivity infrastructure; specifically end user technologies, e.g., meeting rooms, laptops, mobile devices, printers.
Project governance and experience with Agile standards and procedures, as evidenced by certification or equivalent experience in Project Management or Agile Training Curriculum such as SAFe, PMI, PMP.
5 years or more experience of managing global matrix teams and influencing senior leaders.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Ability to quickly grasp technical topics, particularly in the end user space in sufficient detail to effectively communicate with customers and Tech delivery teams.
5 to 10 years of experience with managing project schedules, finances, risks and issues.
High tenacity in resolving and removing strategic obstructions and difficulties, so as to achieve the best strategic results in a timely manner.
Ability to make decisions as these have a direct impact on the organization’s ability to achieve major organizational objectives or long-range goals and could jeopardize future business activity across a number of key areas in the organization if unsuccessful.
Ability and willingness to be flexible, adapting to the demands of the customers.
Technical knowledge to understand projects and trade-off choice.
Close attention to detail.
SAFe Certification.
Lean Sigma.
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