Job description
Site Name: London The Stanley Building, Cambridge 300 Technology Square, Upper Providence
Posted Date: Feb 10 2026
The Onyx Research Data Platform organization 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. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:
- Building a next-generation, metadata and automation-driven data experience for GSK’s scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics.”
- Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent.
- Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time.
- Oversight of the program of work and financial delivery is key to successful execution of this mission. The Onyx Portfolio Management team is
- accountable for defining, building, and executing on our internal processes for agile planning and delivery across our entire portfolio. They
- ensure that the leadership of the Onyx organization and key partners / stakeholders have a transparent view into our overall progress, and that
- issues / blockers / misalignments are raised early before they become major problems. And they partner with our product and engineering
- leadership to ensure our overall ways of working, including software delivery, are best-in-class and set us up for success.
- This role is accountable for supporting Onyx technical teams with project management needs, ensuring quality in internal standard ways of
- working including appropriate documentation, resource tracking and capacity planning to ensure successful program/project delivery. The
- incumbent will also partner with Product Managers to devise and execute realistic, achievable, and high-quality plans that enable delivery of Onyx
- products across multiple sprints. A Program Manager should be able to develop comprehensive, actionable project plan from various data points,
- including information that is poorly defined, ambiguous, and complex. A Program Manager should also be able to effectively execute project plans
- to completion, while facilitating agile ceremonies, managing risk, and partnering across Onyx and the business.
Key Responsibilities include-
- Embed Agile Project Management Practices: (1) Steer cross-functional project teams through all phases of agile software development lifecycle (SDLC); (2) Spearhead implementation and continuous improvement of agile practices; (3) Embed and execute agile ceremonies including quarterly and sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, retrospective, and shiproom.
- Enhance Team & Project Effectiveness: (1) Collaborate with team leads to identify and address challenges hindering team and project performance; {2) Build capability by coaching and mentoring project team members; (3) Ensure project team members feel valued and heard by fostering an inclusive, diverse, and psychologically safe work environment.
- Drive Cross-Team Coordination & Collaboration: (1) Deploy interventions that contribute to single view of each project and seamless integration of deliverables; (2) Align work of project teams by partnering with product managers to optimize backlog management and sprint planning; (3) Implement strategies that increase transparency and information flow across Onyx.
- Build Stakeholders & Partner Relationships: (1) Work alongside engineering leads, Product Managers, and Quality Managers to implement project discipline across deliverables; (2) Partner with R&D and R&D tech to break complex work into critical path items, milestones, dependencies, and risks; (3) Collaborate with other program managers to streamline agile practices across Onyx.
- Reduce Risk & Dependency Impact: (1) Embed practices that enable risk and dependency identification, assessment, documentation, and monitoring; (2) Determine best risk strategies and work with appropriate stakeholders to design and deploy appropriate risk mitigations; (3) Closely monitor and track risks and dependencies, leveraging escalation points as needed.
- Measure Impact with Data & Insights: (1) Alongside tech leads and product managers, contribute to establishing measurable objectives and key results (OKRs) (2) Identify appropriate tracking mechanisms and determine best way to report and visualize results; (3) Analyze data and produce insights that inform decision making and ways of working.
- Proactively Address Change: (1) Work closely with product management and project teams to integrate change management activities into project plans; (2) Prior to deploying and new interventions or ways of working, collaborate with team leads to identify strategies to minimize resistance and increase user adoption; (3) Account for user training needs in project timelines.
Why You?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s degree in IT Program Management, Data Engineering, Computer science, Software Engineering
- 4+ years job-related experience with an established track record of Program delivery for software applications.
- 2+ years’ experience in Agile program/project management, including the use of associated tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Preferred Experience
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Masters Degree
- Demonstrated comfort operating across organizational boundaries a matrixed team
- Metrics-first mindset
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