Portfolio Lead

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Site Name: UK - London - Brentford

Posted Date: Oct 26 2021

Why Consumer Healthcare?

Right now, we’re on an incredible journey as we prepare to become the first independent, 100% focused consumer healthcare company. We’re doing this at a time when the work we do has never mattered more. Better everyday health is about improving the health and wellness of the consumers that we touch every year – over a billion and a half of them – and it goes beyond products. It’s about truly helping people manage their health proactively in different ways as consumer needs evolve.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

As Portfolio Lead, you will be accountable for the coordination of all Tech projects and their interdependencies across the aligned Tech LT area. This will involve working with Tech pillar leads and Business Unit leads to build the subject area, identify any gaps and mitigate plans to ensure delivery excellence. In addition, you will champion relationships with key Tech enabling areas such as Legal; Procurement and Quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Governance: Define and implement the Amplify agile governance for your aligned products and platforms that allows product leads to manage their overall performance and risks across their products & initiatives.
• Stakeholder Management: Develop and manage stakeholders’ communication for their products & initiatives, including regular reporting and updates to both Business and Tech management.
• Project Initiation: Provide mentorship to the aligned area on the Amplify (Agile method) approach and the required deliverables to submit projects and initiatives for approval. Support areas in the early initiative stages by identifying the scope and timelines of the team required to build the vital deliverables, solutions and value delivery.
• Budget Management: Accountable for ensuring initiatives have implemented good financial discipline by using standard processes and tools that report budgets consistently in projects & initiatives. Drive teams to actively manage costs and look for opportunities to reduce costs.
• Quality, Risk & Compliance: Work with product teams to ensure all dependencies, risk and issues are captured and work with the teams to ensure they define clear action and mitigation plans. Make sure that all aligned Tech initiatives follow the Amplify Governance methodology.
• Project Execution: Accountable for the various initiatives that are under the ownership of this role. Take overall ownership for the project and steer until completion using OKRs for tracking and monitoring. Driving the teams to focus delivery to value, cost and quality metrics. Ensure project goals are achieved on time and in alignment with the senior stakeholders’ expectation.
• Team Leadership: As a member of the aligned pillar team, contribute to the development of talent and product management capabilities. Use experience to bring new ideas to identify and challenge ineffective practices. You will be responsible for the appointment and selection of right resources to deliver products & initiatives.
  

Application closing date – 16/11/2021

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Why you?

Qualifications & Skills

• Degree in IT or Business OR relevant experience within a similar position.
• Excellent relationship management, strong influencing and communication skills with all level of the organisation including senior partners.
• Previous experience demonstrating the responsibility for implementing a robust set of ways or working and governance that is embedded with the team.
• Excellent leadership and collaboration skills.
• Ability to challenge at all levels of the project and with stakeholders to ensure objectives are met.
• Track record in delivering business impact through process and IT enabled solutions.
• Project/Product management and/or Agile certification e.g. Professional Scrum Master or SAFe Agilist.
  

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with successful programme and project delivery across multiple markets and regions globally.
• First-hand experience in tracking and reporting progress in a detailed and robust way.
• Management experience preferred.
  

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In Consumer Healthcare we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

New Consumer Healthcare HQ

Recently we’ve shared some exciting proposals with our colleagues which mark an important moment in our preparations for separation and becoming a new, standalone Consumer Healthcare company.

Our preparations are going well. GSK is on track to separate in mid-2022 and create two incredible new companies, each with the ability to improve the health of millions of patients and consumers worldwide, and both great places to work.

We’ve already confirmed that our new Consumer Healthcare company will be headquartered in the UK and the first step we’re taking is to announce proposals to move our CH business from our current location in GSK House in Brentford when we separate, into a new, CH headquarters in Weybridge. This will be a temporary, but important move in the short term, whilst we take this opportunity to design for the future and create an inspiring, flexible, collaborative workspace that meets the changing needs of our people and our business needs.

Inspired by our new culture and purpose, and with a commitment to our sustainability goals, we plan to build a new campus close by which would be home to our headquarters teams, our UK business, our global Oral Health category, R&D and innovation teams, as well as a state-of-the-art Shopper Science lab.

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As a company driven by our values of Patient focus, Transparency, Respect and Integrity, we know inclusion and diversity are essential for us to be able to succeed. We want all our colleagues to thrive at GSK bringing their unique experiences, ensuring they feel good and to keep growing their careers. As a candidate for a role, we want you to feel the same way.

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