Description

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Marietta, USA - Maryland - Rockville
Posted Date: Dec 19 2025

This is a truly exciting role where the Project Controls Director has accountability for ensuring all Capital projects within Americas have the right capability, capacity and ways of working within the project controls discipline. This person plays a critical leadership role in ensuring the successful delivery of capital projects by overseeing cost, schedule, risk, change and document management processes.

The Director will support multi-site, multi-phase projects including facility expansions, technology transfers, and greenfield developments across manufacturing, R&D, and supply chain operations.

This role will directly report to the Head of Project Controls (PC) and will be part of Global project controls leadership, which manages both project-based PC deliveries and functional responsibilities for key processes within GCP.

In this role you will be responsible for:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and implement project controls strategy across the pharma capital project portfolio.
• Lead a team of project controls professionals (Project Controls Leads, Cost managers, Planners & schedulers, risk managers, Contracts & commercial managers) across global or regional sites.
• People management and overseeing project controls resources in the region. To provide coaching, mentoring and onboarding for key resources in the portfolio.
• Ensure alignment with GCP Project Management framework.
• Maintain and engage with leading Project Control service providers globally to ensure we build on best practice and have access to effective partners.

Cost & Schedule Management

• Oversee development of detailed cost estimates, budgets, and forecasts for projects ranging from GBP 10M to 500M+.
• Ensure integrated project schedules reflect critical GMP milestones, commissioning, validation, and regulatory timelines.
• Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) and other performance metrics to track progress and identify variances.

Risk & Change Control

• Implement proactive risk management strategies for identification and active management of risks & opportunities.
• Ensure the robust application of Quantified Risk Analysis (QRA) in project cost and schedule using Monte Carlo Analysis Software simulation-based methodologies.
• Lead change control processes ensuring traceability, impact assessment, and handling of changes through contract administration & commercial management.

Governance & Reporting

• Provide executive-level reporting and dashboards to senior leadership, including capital steering committees.
• Ensure transparency and traceability of project performance, risks, and financials.
• Perform Project Reviews, Independent Project Reviews (IPR's) and health checks as needed to ensure effective project controls are in place from Business Analysis and providing early detection of issues or undesirable trends.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Finance, and Regulatory Affairs.
• Act as a key advisor to project sponsors and site leadership on project health and strategic decision-making.
• Hands on experience with Project management tools such as such as SAP, Oracle P6, MSP Sypro, Monte Carlo simulation tools, visible reporting, earned value management, benchmarking and value assessment.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• BSc/BEng in relevant discipline/Chartered Engineer.
• 15+ years or more delivering advanced planning and project controls capability on high visibility and prioritized projects across multiple geographies.
• Experience working with stage gate models for capital project delivery through all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Experience with Planning, Cost Management, Commercial management, Contract management and Project management
• Experience working with and negotiating contracts, their applications, and contract risks, and understanding on other forms of contracts.
• Experience with Scope Management, Risk Management, Change Management and Forecasting
• Stakeholder management and engagement with senior executives
• Experience in project management, project execution planning, construction management, scheduling and progress management, cost management and value engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• MSc or PhD or other Chartered / Professional Qualification in a relevant discipline
• Excellent management, communication and interpersonal skills, with comfort cooperating with individuals internally and externally at all organizational levels.
• Understanding of how different functions interface on GS projects.
• Solid knowledge of GSK project process, User requirement management, quality and compliance requirement, site project completion and pre-start processes, and how these impact engineering and design, construction, commissioning, and qualification contracts
• Familiar with the GCP Project Management Framework (PMF), relevant engineering standards and compliance requirement as well as Quality Management Systems
• PMP (Project Management Professional) or CCP (Certified Cost Professional) or PMI-SP (Scheduling Professional) or Lean Six Sigma or similar process improvement credentials

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• If you are based in Cambridge, MA; Waltham, MA; Rockville, MD; or San Francisco, CA, the annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges $184,800 to $308,000. The US salary ranges take into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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