Director of Strategic Capital Investments

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Site Name: Belgium-Wavre
Posted Date: Mar 8 2021

Are you energized by a highly impactful project engineering role that allows you to build on your leadership skills in a state-of-the-art manufacturing environment? If so, this Director of Strategic Vaccines Capital Investments role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

The Director of Strategic Vaccines Capital Investments leads the project delivery process for an international portfolio of large-sized projects for the Vaccines network. These investments will run from Feasibility stage to Hand-over and Close-out. It is the responsibility of this role to ensure an outcome which meets all the defined Investment objectives for Safety, Quality, cost, schedule, delivering the committed business benefits.

This responsibility relates to design, procurement, construction, qualification, hand-over and close-out of new and or upgraded production, offices, warehouses, labs facilities.

The Head of Vaccines Capital Investments manages an Annual CapEx spend of >80 £M internationally by multiple projects.

Your Responsibilities

• Have the overall accountability of a portfolio of Strategic Investments for GSK Vaccines.
• Define and decide the final project budgets and schedules worked out by Project Managers. Lead the process of projects business cases preparation and ensure submission to the MNIB (Manufacturing Infrastructure Investment Board)
• Design the project organization structure & drive project teams capacity management. Monitors, appraises, and upgrades individual and team performance as required to assure project success. Installs a proactive, “can do” attitude within the project and purveys a “preventive rather than corrective” mentality.
• Drive the Project Execution Plan process, documenting the project delivery strategy and the success criteria according to the PMF Standard. Establishes a Quality Plan for the project and is proactive in planning for quality.
• Prepare monthly progress reports according to the PMF Standard. Keeps the Steering Group and Sponsors informed of critical issues that could jeopardize projects success.
• Develop a risk management strategy for the project and implements associated processes and tools to ensure effective identification, monitoring and management of project risk.
• Lead the qualification of the engineering services providers and decide and direct the appropriate contractual strategy. Uses proven selection processes to develop the appropriate contract strategy for the project, selects and manages contractors and settles any claims in accordance with company policy.
• Implement strict project and financial controls, including procedures for change control / management, cost control / forecasting, physical progress / productivity measurement, and invoice review / payment. Following Central GE standards.
• Ensure that the overall commissioning, validation & handover strategy that fully complies with the PMF Standard and implements to ensure a timely and complete handover to the Customer.
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• 10 to 15 years’ experience in project management of large capital projects or portfolio of projects.
• Accountable for Capital Investments spread Globally through Vx network
• Oversee multiple Capital Investments each approximately 100M £ or higher
• Broad knowledge of project management and technologies processes
• Pharmaceutical experienceis a must.
• People management and communication skills, including supervision / motivation of others
• Project controls experience on major capital projects, including cost estimating, cost forecasting, change control/management, scheduling, progress measurement.
• Fluent in English and French (written and spoken)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

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

• The job holder will be of sufficient stature and credibility to effectively interface with and influence key opinion leaders within GSK Vaccines
• Highly effective communication skills both verbal and written
• Has the ability to work fully autonomous
• Sense of urgency, flexibility and accountability.
• Highly effective at influencing internally and externally
• Ability to discuss and negotiate technical matters with suppliers
• Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Ability to work in a high complex matrix environment

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Why GSK?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

As GSK Focuses On Our Values And Expectations And a Culture Of Innovation, Performance, And Trust, The Successful Candidate Will Demonstrate The Following Capabilities

These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork.

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
• Managing individual and team performance.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
• Implementing change initiatives and leading change.
• Sustaining energy and well-being, building resilience in teams.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning both internally and externally.
• Developing people and building a talent pipeline.
• Translating strategy into action - a compelling narrative, motivating others, setting objectives and delegation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration, managing trusted stakeholder relationships internally and externally.
• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen.
  
  

GSK Vaccines – Our Vaccines business is one of the largest in the world, developing, producing and distributing over 2.5 million vaccines every day to people across 170 countries. For further information, please visit www.gsk.com.

Once our pioneering treatments have been developed, they are manufactured to the highest standards and distributed across the regions that need them most. Accomplishing this as efficiently and quickly as possible can quite literally be a matter of life and death. So, it’s no wonder that more than 70% of our talented workforce is based within Global Industrial Operations - the essential business unit that manufactures and manages the entire vaccine supply process, from customer order to product dispatch on a global scale.

As the name suggests, it operates in a multi-national context across more than 17 sites around the world, working closely in tandem with colleagues from a variety of disciplines and professions.

The department is structured in operating units that focus on various aspects of the manufacturing and supply process. These include Industrialization (overseeing the transfer of production from R&D to a commercial level), Supply Chain Management and Technical Services.

At GSK we value diversity and treat all candidates equally. We aim to create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel engaged, supportive of one another, and know their work makes an important contribution.

We provide a supportive working environment, and a range of development challenges and opportunities. We also offer competitive benefits and compensation packages designed to attract and to retain the very best.

If you have a disability and require assistance during the course of the selection process, you will have the opportunity to let us know what specific assistance you require in order to make suitable arrangements.

Our goal is to be one of the world’s most innovative, best performing and trusted healthcare companies. We believe that we all bring something unique to GSK and when we combine our knowledge, experiences and styles together, the impact is incredible. Come join our adventure at GSK where you will be inspired to do your best work for our patients and consumers. A place where you can be you, feel good and keep growing.

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