Senior Manager

Site Name: Belgium-Wavre Posted Date: Dec 14 2022 The senior project manager will own/lead a portfolio of critical capital projects or focus on a major project leading execution from basic design to handover. The projects will range from utilities, facilities, primary, QC to R&D and will be part of the Rixensart Capital Projects team. This will involve project management and partnering with key stake holders to ensure critical needs are met. The capital investments team needs an experienced engineer with high level of leadership, sense of urgency, bias to action, project management mastery and strong technical skills. The person will be a key player in driving project execution excellence; deliver vertical start-up of his/her projects while meeting strict safety, quality, capital, and schedule needs. The role is complex with multiple customers and competing needs. The person needs to be able to deal with complexity, ambiguity and has a strong drive for success. Belgian Vaccine operation is one of the biggest in the world, the role will touch a range of units with more than 12,000 employees and assets with a replacement value of 3.5 billion Euros. Your responsibilities: Define project(s) priorities with input from customers and partners. Ensure the right staffing and capability is in place across internal and external organizations including experts, Engineering Offices and users Deliver the project(s) with heightened focus on safety, quality and compliance. Track project(s) spending and ensure capital targets are consistently met. Penetrate technical details with a critical mind and ensure the right solutions are implemented with focus on value and functionality. Champion simplification and productivity, help drive a breakthrough in how projects are executed. May need to manage a small team of project managers, engineering offices and various suppliers. Become an active member in the capital projects team focusing on building capability, innovation and technical readiness skills. Why you? Basic Qualifications: We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: Engineering degree with minimum 10 years’ experience managing large scale engineering projects or portfolio of projects, higher than 30million Euros. Project management mastery including construction safety, construction management, estimation, forecasting, change management, documentation, scheduling, start up, handover. Strong leadership, ability to influence others, challenge the status quo and drive change. People management skills and ability to motivate others within reporting lines and outside. Technical knowledge of facilities/utilities and GMP projects Ability to work autonomously with a strong sense of accountability English and French language mastery Preferred Qualifications: If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: Project management certification Pharma experience Why GSK? Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together. *Li-GSK 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. 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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce. 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