Global Portfolio Director

**Site Name**: UK - London - New Oxford Street, Albania - Tirana, Athens, Austria, Belgium, Belgium-Rixensart, Belgium-Wavre, Cyprus, France, Greater Poland, Hungary - Budapest, Italy, Poznan Business Garden, Prague, Switzerland - Muenchenbuchsee Bern, Switzerland - Rotkreuz, UK - Angus - Montrose
**Posted Date**: Jun 3 2025

**Global Portfolio Director**:
**The role can be done from any location in Europe or the US that is close to a GSK location**:
**The posting period will end on the 10th of June in 2025**:
**Job Purpose**:

- Lead, develop, nurture and sustain a Global Project Management group for a portfolio of Global Capital Projects delivering a critically important, capital investment portfolio to support GSK growth ambitions and the needs of continuing compliant manufacturing, that support billions of sales
- Develop, direct and support multiple project teams in different geographies, able to deliver safe, on time and on budget projects at the quality required by the business
- Support Supply Chains and Manufacturing Groups to define their ongoing capital needs and guide and support the delivery of their local capital projects
- Ensure compliance with Finance, Regulatory and Ethical best practice in project delivery
- Support, coach and mentor project management practitioners in the supply chain, to improve and support the delivery of their projects
- Visible leadership within project management by acting as an advocate of capital project best practice as a member of the GCP Leadership Team
- Ensure that GSK’s safety ambitions are met, through demonstrating commitment to zero accidents or incidents and act as exemplary of best practice

**Key responsibilities**:

- Full accountability for delivery of the capital plan for area of responsibility, which may flex over time, in line with the capital plan and complexities
- Management of the project management group, directing multiple project teams, managers and associated project delivery staff
- Direction of the delivery strategy for the projects comprises the portfolios
- Ensuring that project strategies are well matched to safe and secure delivery in the geography the project is being delivered in
- Development and delivery of an annual business and improvement plan to meet the business demands whilst improving safety, reliability and cost efficiency of delivery
- Act as an escalation and expert resource for all project issues and challenges
- Represent the project on key strategy and steering teams and in GSC level meetings on strategy and delivery
- Ensure compliant delivery and direct assurance processes to ensure all requirements for safe, secure and ethical practice are in place and in operation
- Represent GSK and the project with external bodies at the highest level
- Research, seek and drive the latest Design and Construction Technology (Modularization, Componentization, Engineering Data Management, Digital delivery) - exploiting them to maximize the short
- and long-term quality, safety and financial benefit
- Understand the impact of cGMP on the design & delivery of projects and ensure alignment with all regulatory requirements and the QMS
- Manage the group in a collaborative and supportive way, exhibiting all the expected behaviors of a senior GSK leader
- Act as a visible advocate for diversity in engineering and project delivery
- Act as a visible advocate for GSK Safety Life Saving Rules

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Degree in Engineering. Preferred: Advanced degree such as Masters or similar in engineering, construction or project management
- Deep and broad understanding of the capital project lifecycle from Design to Operation
- 15 years plus experience in design & delivery of high
- tech life science projects
- Direct experience of delivering complicated construction projects
- Knowledge & understanding of operations and operational excellence processes involving project scope
- Understanding of the economics and commercial realities of construction and contracting
- Named project manager in multiple projects that delivered built completed and handed over facilities
- Superior ability to successfully interact and build strong and lasting relationships with stakeholders including senior leaders in GSK
- Direction of multiple projects as either a programme manager or as a project group lead
- Direct experience of leading projects in global and diverse cultures
- LI-GSK

**Why GSK?**

**Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.**

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investin