GSK · 14 hours ago
Program Manager II
Cambridge 300 Technology Square
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$104K/yr - $173K/yr
4+ years expGSK is a global biopharma company focused on uniting science, technology, and talent to combat disease. The Program Manager II role involves overseeing program work and financial delivery, supporting technical teams with project management needs, and ensuring successful program/project delivery through agile practices and collaboration with product managers.
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Responsibilities
Steer cross-functional project teams through all phases of agile software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Spearhead implementation and continuous improvement of agile practices
Embed and execute agile ceremonies including quarterly and sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, and shiproom
Collaborate with team leads to identify and address challenges hindering team and project performance
Build capability by coaching and mentoring project team members
Ensure project team members feel valued and heard by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and psychologically safe work environment
Deploy interventions that contribute to single view of each project and seamless integration of deliverables
Align work of project teams by partnering with product managers to optimize backlog management and sprint planning
Implement strategies that increase transparency and information flow across Onyx
Work alongside engineering leads, Product Managers, and Quality Managers to implement project discipline across deliverables
Partner with R&D and R&D tech to break complex work into critical path items, milestones, dependencies, and risks
Collaborate with other program managers to streamline agile practices across Onyx
Embed practices that enable risk and dependency identification, assessment, documentation, and monitoring
Determine best risk strategies and work with appropriate stakeholders to design and deploy appropriate risk mitigations
Closely monitor and track risks and dependencies, leveraging escalation points as needed
Alongside tech leads and product managers, contribute to establishing measurable objectives and key results (OKRs)
Identify appropriate tracking mechanisms and determine best way to report and visualize results
Analyze data and produce insights that inform decision making and ways of working
Work closely with product management and project teams to integrate change management activities into project plans
Prior to deploying and new interventions or ways of working, collaborate with team leads to identify strategies to minimize resistance and increase user adoption
Account for user training needs in project timelines
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in IT Program Management, Data Engineering, Computer science, Software Engineering
4+ years job-related experience with an established track record of Program delivery for software applications
2+ years' experience in Agile program/project management, including the use of associated tools such as Jira and Confluence
Preferred
Masters Degree
Demonstrated comfort operating across organizational boundaries a matrixed team
Metrics-first mindset
Benefits
Annual bonus
Eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program
Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
Retirement benefits
Paid holidays
Vacation
Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
Company
GSK
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H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (54)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$25.51MKey Investors
CARB-X
2021-03-02Grant· $18M
2020-09-23Grant· $7.51M
1978-01-13IPO
Leadership Team
Luke Miels
Chief Executive Officer
Julie Brown
CFO
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