Program Manager II

The Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.

Onyx is a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”.

• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent.

• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time.

Oversight of the program of work, quality management systems (QMS), and financial delivery is key to successful execution of this mission. The Onyx Portfolio Management team is accountable for defining, building, and executing our internal processes for agile planning and delivery across our entire portfolio. They ensure that the leadership of the Onyx organization and key partners / stakeholders have a transparent view into our overall progress, and that issues / blockers / misalignments are raised early before they become major problems. And they partner with our product and engineering leadership to ensure our overall ways of working, including software delivery, are best-in-class and set us up for success.

This role is accountable for supporting Onyx technical teams with project management needs, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of working including appropriate documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to ensure successful program/project delivery. The incumbent will also partner with Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable, and high-quality plans that enable delivery of Onyx products across multiple sprints. A Program Manager should be able to develop a comprehensive, actionable project plan from various data points, including information that is poorly defined, ambiguous, and complex. A Program Manager should also be able to effectively execute project plans to completion, while facilitating agile ceremonies, managing risk, and partnering across Onyx and the business.

In this role you will

• 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 any new interventions or ways of working, collaborating with team leads to identify strategies to minimize resistance and increase user adoption; (3) Account for user training needs in project timelines.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelors’ degree or equivalent work experience within Project Management or Program Management.

• Significant amount of proven experience managing multiple projects and project teams in a highly complex, fast-paced environment.

• Demonstrates ability to design/deploy targeted interventions to increase team effectiveness.

• Possesses a baseline knowledge and understanding of key project metrics and how to leverage data to illustrate project and team impact and performance.

• Proficient in implementing agile project management methodologies.

• Proficient in risk identification and management.

• Proficient in using change management to drive user adoption.

• Experience using Atlassian tools including Jira and Confluence, or similar project management technologies.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master’s degree or equivalent work experience within Data/Tech Project or Program Management.

• Demonstrates ability to operate across organizational boundaries and matrixed teams.

• Leveraged system thinking to connect key concepts and solve complex problems.

• Displays learning agility and a growth mindset.

• Holds project management certifications (PMP, scrum, etc.).

• Excellent communicator and collaborator.

• Highly effective at giving and receiving feedback.

• Strong inclination to seek to understand before reacting/responding.

Closing Date for Applications: Monday 17th March 2025 (COB)

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