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GSK · 19 hours ago

Program Manager II

GSK is a global biopharma company focused on uniting science, technology, and talent to advance health. The Program Manager II will oversee the Onyx Portfolio Management team, ensuring effective project management and agile practices are implemented to deliver high-quality Onyx products across multiple sprints.

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Responsibilities

Embed Agile Project Management Practices: (1) Steer cross-functional project teams through all phases of agile software development lifecycle (SDLC); (2) Spearhead implementation and continuous improvement of agile practices; (3) Embed and execute agile ceremonies including quarterly and sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, and shiproom
Enhance Team & Project Effectiveness: (1) Collaborate with team leads to identify and address challenges hindering team and project performance; {2) Build capability by coaching and mentoring project team members; (3) Ensure project team members feel valued and heard by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and psychologically safe work environment
Drive Cross-Team Coordination & Collaboration: (1) Deploy interventions that contribute to single view of each project and seamless integration of deliverables; (2) Align work of project teams by partnering with product managers to optimize backlog management and sprint planning; (3) Implement strategies that increase transparency and information flow across Onyx
Build Stakeholders & Partner Relationships: (1) Work alongside engineering leads, Product Managers, and Quality Managers to implement project discipline across deliverables; (2) Partner with R&D and R&D tech to break complex work into critical path items, milestones, dependencies, and risks; (3) Collaborate with other program managers to streamline agile practices across Onyx
Reduce Risk & Dependency Impact: (1) Embed practices that enable risk and dependency identification, assessment, documentation, and monitoring; (2) Determine best risk strategies and work with appropriate stakeholders to design and deploy appropriate risk mitigations; (3) Closely monitor and track risks and dependencies, leveraging escalation points as needed
Measure Impact with Data & Insights: (1) Alongside tech leads and product managers, contribute to establishing measurable objectives and key results (OKRs); (2) Identify appropriate tracking mechanisms and determine best way to report and visualize results; (3) Analyze data and produce insights that inform decision making and ways of working
Proactively Address Change: (1) Work closely with product management and project teams to integrate change management activities into project plans; (2) Prior to deploying and new interventions or ways of working, collaborate with team leads to identify strategies to minimize resistance and increase user adoption; (3) Account for user training needs in project timelines

Qualification

Agile program managementSoftware deliveryProject managementJiraConfluenceData engineeringMetrics-first mindsetCoachingStakeholder managementMentoringCross-team collaboration

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

We are uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. Our community guidelines: https://gsk.to/socialmedia

H1B Sponsorship

GSK has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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2025 (45)
2024 (56)
2023 (54)
2022 (53)
2021 (54)
2020 (72)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$25.51M
Key Investors
CARB-X
2021-03-02Grant· $18M
2020-09-23Grant· $7.51M
1978-01-13IPO

Leadership Team

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Luke Miels
Chief Executive Officer
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Julie Brown
CFO
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