Be a part of a high-performing team that can make a real difference at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Our vision is to build a global, enterprise project services team that delivers business outcomes across the company by responding to the ongoing internal business demand for strong project management capabilities and a consulting mindset. As Project Director, you will be a leader on our teams and work closely with our businesses as a project expert and trusted advisor. We set the highest quality standards, collaborate, and work hard to support our business partners and each other.

In Global Business Services (GBS) we dare to change the way we work – we are brave, resilient and take smart risks with a focus on simplifying the way we work. Through our global scale and diverse services, we look to drive value through our innovation and expertise. This requires a team who see no boundaries, can collaborate, challenges the norm, feels empowered, and stays motivated and engaged.

• Project leadership – manage cross-functional, complex projects that often carry high risk and experience some ambiguity in mobilizing. Maintain focus on outcomes and benefits.
• Project governance – define, implement and drive project governance across a complex stakeholder landscape.
• Customer engagement – deliver excellent customer service, effective communication, professionalism and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
• External insight – stay up to date with industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies to bring value to internal customers.
• Coaching and mentoring – provide coaching and mentoring to other team members.

Essential

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Proven track record of managing large, high complexity projects in a global organization.
• Significant experience and skill presenting in front of C-level and Senior VPs through written and verbal channels
• Demonstration of strong, communication and relationship building skills with experience in collaborating and sharing knowledge between teams
• Experience considering risks, evaluating alternatives, and encouraging input from others to effectively make decisions and plan mitigation tactics
• Comfortable and skilled in operating in a complex operational matrixed organization across diverse, global teams
• Excellent business engagement and business acumen with sensitivity to internal and external political/economic environment

Desirable

• Management Consulting experience
• Project Management Certification
• Change Management Certification
• Pharmaceutical or equivalent global & complex organization experience; experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures and guidelines