Program Manager II

Role Summary

The Onyx Research Data Platform program represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. This role supports Onyx technical teams with project management, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of working, including documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to enable successful program delivery.

The Program Manager will partner with Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable, and high-quality plans that enable delivery of Onyx products across multiple sprints, developing comprehensive, actionable project plans from complex data and coordinating across Onyx and business stakeholders.

• Embed Agile Project Management Practices:
  Steer cross-functional project teams through all phases of the agile software development lifecycle; spearhead implementation and continuous improvement of agile practices; embed and execute agile ceremonies including quarterly and sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, and shiproom.
• Enhance Team & Project Effectiveness:
  Collaborate with team leads to identify and address challenges hindering team and project performance; build capability by coaching and mentoring project team members; foster an inclusive, diverse, and psychologically safe work environment.
• Drive Cross-Team Coordination &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Deploy interventions that contribute to a single view of each project and seamless integration of deliverables; align work of project teams by partnering with product managers to optimize backlog management and sprint planning; implement strategies that increase transparency and information flow across Onyx.
• Build Stakeholders & Partner Relationships:
  Work alongside engineering leads, Product Managers, and Quality Managers to implement project discipline across deliverables; partner with R&D and R&D tech to break complex work into critical path items, milestones, dependencies, and risks; collaborate with other program managers to streamline agile practices across Onyx.
• Reduce Risk & Dependency Impact:
  Embed practices that enable risk and dependency identification, assessment, documentation, and monitoring; determine best risk strategies and deploy appropriate mitigations; closely monitor and track risks and dependencies, leveraging escalation points as needed.
• Measure Impact with Data & Insights:
  Alongside tech leads and product managers, contribute to establishing measurable objectives and key results (OKRs); identify tracking mechanisms and determine the best way to report and visualize results; analyze data and produce insights that inform decision making.
• Proactively Address Change:
  Work closely with product management and project teams to integrate change management activities into project plans; identify strategies to minimize resistance and increase user adoption; account for user training needs in timelines.

• Required:
  
  4+ years job-related experience with an established track record of program delivery for software applications
• Required:
  
  2+ years’ experience in Agile program/project management, including the use of associated tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Preferred:
  Masters Degree
• Preferred:
  Demonstrated comfort operating across organizational boundaries in a matrixed team
• Preferred:
  Metrics-first mindset

• Bachelor’s degree in IT Program Management, Data Engineering, Computer science, Software Engineering