Project Director – Global Capital Projects
This is a site-based role in Rosia, Italy.
Are you ready to lead and manage large complex capital projects? As a Project Director at GSK, you will ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with regulatory requirements. This role involves cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and navigating the complexities of highly regulated environments.
This role will report to the Global Portfolio Director and manage a team of 4/5 external contractors.
In this role you will:
- Provide strategic oversight for complex capital projects and portfolios.
- Ensure alignment of project outcomes with business and organizational strategies.
- Lead governance, compliance, and risk frameworks across projects.
- Exemplify and uphold GSK’s values and behaviors.
- Define and manage strategies for high-impact, high-value projects.
- Influence and align senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Ensure the delivery of fully compliant, validated systems and facilities.
Capabilities
- Project Management: Adherence to GSK’s Project Management Framework and PMI standards.
- Programme Management: Strategic programme integration, portfolio governance, stakeholder engagement, risk management, and performance tracking.
- Business Relationships: Trusted advisor to executive stakeholders and sponsors.
- Decision Making: Lead high-stakes decision-making with organizational impact.
- Strategic Thinking & Delivery: Develop and drive strategies for capital project delivery.
- Communication: Influence and align communication strategies at the executive level.
- Teamwork: Build and sustain high-performing teams across the project management organization.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
- Considerable experience managing complex capital projects in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
- Extensive knowledge of GMP, regulatory requirements, and validation processes.
- Proven track record of delivering large-scale projects on time and within budget.
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency in project management tools and methodologies.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
- MSc or additional qualification in Engineering/Construction Management or a related field
- Project management certification (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2)
If you are ready to take on this exciting challenge and make a significant impact at GSK, apply now!
Closing Date for Applications – 22nd July 2025
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We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 2.3 billion packs of medicines and doses of vaccines in 2023.
We continue to modernise, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst continuing to deliver across our entire portfolio through our relentless focus on quality, safety, and service. The way we work will change. For some, the shift in technology and products will be revolutionary.
Our R&D pipeline demands a new kind of supply chain, and we need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.
If you are interested in joining us, find out more:
Annual Report 2023
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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
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