Project Controls Lead

Site Name: USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence, USA - Pennsylvania - King of Prussia

Posted Date: Oct 28 2025

Are you ready to make a meaningful impact on global health and drive efficiency in capital project delivery? At GSK, we are seeking a Project Controls Lead to play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective management of our capital projects portfolio.

As a Project Controls Lead within our R&D Engineering Services (RDES) team, you will oversee the delivery of project controls, including cost, schedule, and risk management, ensuring compliance with GSK's Project Management Framework. You'll act as a strategic partner to project teams, championing project efficiency, implementing best practices, and enabling data-driven decision-making for a capital portfolio of approximately £150M annually.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive excellence in cost estimation, budgeting, scheduling, and risk mitigation across projects.
• Coach and train service partner staff to ensure compliance with GSK's Project Management Framework.
• Maintain and leverage benchmarking data to validate project cost estimates and schedules.
• Endorse procurement and contracting strategies while ensuring effective lifecycle contract administration.
• Own annual spend forecasts and end-of-year close-out activities, including capital accruals.
• Conduct Independent Project Reviews to ensure project assurance and health checks.
• Verify risk and contingency allocations for project budgets and schedules.
• Monitor critical milestones, risks, and KPIs to enable timely interventions and ensure project delivery success.
• Implement a formalized scope change approval process with clear accountability.
• Maintain site project performance dashboards to identify trends and drive efficiencies.
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications:

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• A Bachelor’s degree with 5 years experience in project controls, project planning, scheduling, cost estimation, budgeting, and/or risk management tools.
• Experience within data analysis and financial forecasting, along with experience in project controls systems.
• Experience with stakeholder management.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• A Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, or Project Management
• Experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• Strategic thinking to align project goals with organizational objectives.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Passion for continuous improvement and adaptability in dynamic environments.
• Ability to build strong cross-functional relationships and foster collaboration.
  
  
  

This role is hybrid, requiring you to be in office minimum 3/days per week.

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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