GBS Project Services - Project Director Lisboa

GBS Project Services - Project Director
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Job Title: Project Director

Competitive salary and benefits apply

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

At Astra
Zeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions
- sharing, ambitious thinking, and innovation – ultimately providing employees with the opportunity to work across teams, functions, and even globally.

Recognizing the importance of individualized flexibility, our ways of working allow employees to balance personal and work commitments while ensuring we continue to create a strong culture of collaboration and teamwork by engaging
-
- face in our offices 3 days a week. Our offices are purposely designed with collaboration in mind, providing space where teams can come together to strategize, brainstorm, and connect on key projects.

Astra
Zeneca believes in a culture of lifelong learning. To support your professional growth, we offer
- ranging opportunities for learning and development.

Our position:

Do you want to be part of a
- performing team that can make a real difference at one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies? We are bringing together a team of experienced project managers who go beyond just “managing the plan” and provide project leadership and insights to the business customers. Astra
Zeneca is building an internal consulting capability in our Global Business Services (GBS) group focused on delivering
- quality project management capabilities to our enterprise organization.

Our vision is to build a global, enterprise project services team that delivers business outcomes by responding to the ongoing internal business demand for strong project management skillsets and capabilities across the company. You will 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.

You will work within the GBS Project Services team to define and deliver the service quality, whilst also working with the business as a project thought leader, responding to their demand for project support. With a strong understanding of change management and excellent communication skills, you will work effectively with stakeholders to deliver business outcomes.

About Global Business Services:

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, challenge the norm, feel empowered, and stay motivated and engaged.

In our role as a global business services group, we are passionate about working smarter, to free up time, free up money, protect value, and provide new capabilities to the enterprise – all to push the boundaries of science to deliver
- changing medicines.

In GBS Productivity and Project Services, we support this ambition by being trusted partners for delivery excellence and building
- term capabilities to efficiently drive internal business projects. This is an exciting opportunity for personal development, leveraging your experience as a project management thought leader, and playing a key role in delivering a
- class organization.

Typical Accountabilities:

• Project leadership: Manage
  - 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.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Proven track record of managing large projects in a global organization
• Experience managing projects in a global organization
• Significant experience and skill in presenting to C-suite/executive level clients through written and verbal channels
• Strong communication and
  - building skills, with experience in collaboration and knowledge sharing between teams
• Experience considering risks, evaluating alternatives, and making decisions with input from others
• Comfortable operating in a complex, matrixed organization across diverse, global teams
• Excellent business engagement and acumen, with sensitivity to political/economic environments
• Project Management Certification
• Change Management Certification
• Management Consulting experience
• Experience in pharmaceutical or equivalent global & complex organizations; familiarity with quality and compliance environments