GBS Project Services - Project Director Lisboa

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

GBS Project Services - Project Director, Lisbon

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: ce27a25da505

Job Views: 30

Posted: 23. 01. 2025

Expiry Date: 09. 03. 2025

Job Description:

Job Title: Project Director

Competitive salary and benefits apply

At Astra
Zeneca, we pride ourselves on crafting a collaborative culture that champions
- sharing, ambitious thinking and innovation. 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.

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

Our position:

We are bringing together a team of experienced project managers who 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.

You will work closely with our businesses as a project expert and trusted advisor, defining and delivering service quality while 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. Through our global scale and diverse services, we look to drive value through our innovation and expertise.

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 where you could come in. Working in Productivity and Project Services is
- paced, dynamic, and challenging.

Typical Accountabilities:

1. Project leadership: manage
   - functional, complex projects that often carry high risk and experience some ambiguity in mobilising. Maintain focus on outcomes and benefits.
2. Project governance: define, implement and drive project governance across a complex stakeholder landscape.
3. Customer engagement: deliver excellent customer service, effective communication, professionalism and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
4. External insight: stay up to date with industry trends, best practices and emerging technologies to bring value to internal customers.
5. Coaching and mentoring: provide coaching and mentoring to other team members.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s Degree
2. Proven track record of managing large projects in a global organization.
3. Experience managing projects in a global organization.
4. Significant experience and skill presenting in front of C-suite/executive level clients through written and verbal channels.
5. Strong communication and relationship building skills with experience in collaborating and sharing knowledge between teams.
6. Experience considering risks, evaluating alternatives, and encouraging input from others to effectively make decisions and plan mitigation tactics.
7. Comfortable and skilled in operating in a complex operational matrixed organization across diverse, global teams.
8. Excellent business engagement and business acumen with sensitivity to internal and external political/economic environment.
9. Project Management Certification.
10. Change Management Certification.
11. Management Consulting experience.
12. Pharmaceutical or equivalent global & complex organization experience; experience of working within a quality and compliance environment and application of policies, procedures and guidelines.