Sr Director, Program Delivery London, England
Job description
Posted Date: Apr 17 2023
Senior Director, Portfolio Delivery
Please note this role is a secondment ending in July 2024.
Senior Director, Portfolio Delivery plays a key leadership role within Global Products & Technology & Products (GP&T) on the Strategy, Transformation and Programme Management Office (STPMO) leadership team.
The role reports directly to VP of STPMO and is accountable for leading portfolio delivery across all GP&T towers.
GSK’s Global Technology & Products (GP&T) provides infrastructure services (including servers & storage, Cloud services, Networking, End User services, Identity & Access Management and Help Desk desk) and Global Applications (SAP, Ariba, WorkDay) to support all GSK sites globally; 100k+ users, across 300+ sites.
The Portfolio Delivery team consists of a set of portfolio managers, scrum masters and project managers who facilitate the delivery of change across the entire GP&T portfolio. The Senior Director, Portfolio Delivery is accountable for ensuring portfolio delivery process, standards, reporting and governance are adhered to and understood by product owners across GP&T. They are also seen as an expert in how to set up, facilitate and govern new demand coming into the teams.
Key responsibilities:
Standardising the way we source, oversee and manage additional Programme and Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Release Train Engineers, finding creative solutions to demand challenges
Overseeing all GP&T portfolios of delivery, acting as an escalation point to resolve blockers
Ensuring all delivery standards, processes, governance and reporting are implemented effectively across the GP&T portfolio – driving consistency of approach as much as possible
Resolving blockers to keep the delivery moving forward at pace
Acting as an expert across the GP&T estate to drive continuous improvement in our delivery methods and improve visibility of our work
Updating a wide range of senior stakeholders on progress and blockers, bringing together the most appropriate team to resolve issues
Collaborating across STPMO to be the face of STPMO into the GP&T towers – helping to navigate the support available from Business Operations, LPMO and others as required
Development and mentoring of direct report internal employees, including driving High Performance Behaviours
Why you?
BS Technical Degree e.g. Technology, Information Systems, Computer Science or related discipline. MS Degree preferred.
15+ years of experience in enterprise-level management within technical architecture, design, application development, or infrastructure services.
5+ years of experience in leading and managing Agile Release Trains (ARTs) or equivalent
Proven experience of managing a portfolio that combines agile and traditional ways of delivery
Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Certified Practitioner (or equivalent experience).
Possesses significant expertise and vast experience in business/functional area.
Previous global function and experience in major organization are preferred. Pharmaceutical or other regulated industry experiences is a plus.
Experience developing and implementing solutions that span geographical boundaries and time zones.
Experienced with technology and digital transformation.
Demonstrated impact through delivery and leadership of large portfolios of technical delivery
Performs broad range of work and complex activities in a wide variety of non-routine context with substantial personal autonomy.
Sought after by others for guidance, shares cutting-edge knowledge & uses influence to drive change.
Is consulted internally and externally to set standard for enterprise wide delivery.
Recognized ability to deliver under challenging circumstances. Clear competency strengths in overcoming barriers, and challenges in order to maintain quality, cost and time targets.
Possesses and shares knowledge of best practice and current trends, acquired both internally and externally.
Demonstrable experience of building happy, engaged and high performing global teams.
Very strong business acumen.
Experience managing million (£) operational and change budgets.
Strong 3rd party vendor management.
Excellent senior stakeholder management – ability to help people prioritise long term strategic thinking
Excellent negotiation, decision making and problem-solving skills. Strong influencing skill.
Excellent written and verbal communication, including presentation skills.
Cultural sensitivity.
Excellent English spoken and written.
Willingness to travel if needed.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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