Description:
This is a truly exciting role where the Project Controls Director has accountability for ensuring all Capital projects within Europe and UK have the right capability, capacity and ways of working within the project controls discipline. This person plays a critical leadership role in ensuring the successful delivery of capital projects by overseeing cost, schedule, risk, change and document management processes.
The Director will support multi-site, multi-phase projects including facility expansions, technology transfers, and greenfield developments across manufacturing, R&D, and supply chain operations.
This role will directly report to the Head of Project Controls (PC) and will be part of Global project controls leadership, which manages both project-based PC deliveries and functional responsibilities for key processes within GCP.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Define and implement project controls strategy across the pharma capital project portfolio.
- Lead a team of project controls professionals (Project Controls Leads, Cost managers, Planners & schedulers, risk managers, Contracts & commercial managers) across global or regional sites.
- People management and overseeing project controls resources in the region. To provide coaching & mentoring for key resources in the portfolio.
- Ensure alignment with GCP Project Management framework.
- Maintain and engage with leading Project Control service providers globally to ensure we build on best practice and have access to effective partners.
Cost & Schedule Management
- Oversee development of detailed cost estimates, budgets, and forecasts for projects ranging from GBP 10M to 500M+.
- Ensure integrated project schedules reflect critical GMP milestones, commissioning, validation, and regulatory timelines.
- Apply Earned Value Management (EVM) and other performance metrics to track progress and identify variances.
Risk & Change Control
- Implement proactive risk management strategies for identification and active management of risks & opportunities.
- Ensure the robust application of Quantified Risk Analysis (QRA) in project cost and schedule using Monte Carlo Analysis Software simulation-based methodologies.
- Lead change control processes ensuring traceability, impact assessment, and handling of changes through contract administration & commercial management.
Governance & Reporting
- Provide executive-level reporting and dashboards to senior leadership, including capital steering committees.
- Ensure transparency and traceability of project performance, risks, and financials.
- Perform Project Reviews, Independent Project Reviews (IPR’s) and health checks as needed to ensure effective project controls are in place from Business Analysis and providing early detection of issues or undesirable trends.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Quality, Procurement, Finance, and Regulatory Affairs.
- Act as a key advisor to project sponsors and site leadership on project health and strategic decision-making.
- Hands on experience with Project management tools such as such as SAP, Oracle P6, MSP, Sypro, Monte Carlo simulation tools, visible reporting, earned value management, benchmarking and value assessment.
Qualifications/Skills
Basic Qualifications:
- Considerable experience in successfully delivering advanced planning and project controls capability on high visibility and prioritized projects across multiple geographies.
- BSc/BEng in relevant discipline/Chartered Engineer.
- Expert knowledge of comprehensive stage gate models for capital project delivery through all stages of the project lifecycle.
- Expert knowledge and experience of Planning, Cost Management, Commercial management, Contract management and Project management
- Expert knowledge in certain forms of contracts, their applications, and contract risks, and understanding on other forms of contracts.
- Expert knowledge in Cost Management, Scope Management, Risk Management, Change Management and Forecasting
- Strong senior stakeholder management and influencing capabilities
- Rich experience in project management, project execution planning, construction management, scheduling and progress management, cost management and value engineering