Project Service Lead – GBS Project Services
AstraZeneca
Europe, Portugal, Lisbon, Lisboa
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Salary
Rank
Director
Responsibility
Site Lead
Scope
Global
Workplace
100% in office
Functions
Customer Service
Finance
Reports to
Level
N-1
Travel Max:
0%
Posting Date
12-17-2025
Description
Are you experienced in leading change? As a Senior Manager in GBS Project Services, you will guide global initiatives across our organization, managing projects of various sizes and risks. With your growing experience in strategy development and implementation, you’ll ensure our teams stay aligned and focused on successful outcomes.
You’ll have opportunities to share your ideas with top leadership, using your strong communication skills to share important insights. Your talent for building relationships and fostering teamwork will boost knowledge-sharing among our teams. With your strategic thinking, you’ll assess risks and develop smart solutions to tackle them. Working in a complex operational environment, you’ll apply your business skills and engage with a variety of stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- People management: line manage a team of project managers, coordinators, and analysts, fostering a culture of collaboration, excellence and continuous improvement.
- Business development: identify opportunities to deliver savings and successful outcomes to internal customers.
- Lead Global Initiatives: Manage functional projects that are medium complexity and risk and have a mature and supportive partner organization. Define, implement, and drive project governance across a mature and supportive partner landscape.
- Innovation and Continuous Improvement: Cultivate a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within projects and the team, actively seeking opportunities to enhance services and drive efficiency.
- Change Management: Develop tailored change management strategies that consider the customer’s environment, stakeholder needs, and desired future state. Implement cross-functional, change initiatives that experience some ambiguity in mobilizing. Develop the analysis of change impacts and stakeholder effects resulting from transformation initiatives.
- Problem Solving and Execution: Apply effective problem-solving techniques, simplify complex information to create actionable insights.
- Customer Engagement: Deliver excellent customer service, effective communication, professionalism and a commitment to exceeding expectations.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure that the services provided meet the encouraged standards of quality and deliver value to the organization.
- Mentorship and Development: Provide guidance and support to junior team members, fostering their professional growth and development.
Qualification & Requirements
To qualify for this role, you must have:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in medium-complexity project management, change management, business or technology consulting
- Experience in people management and developing and motivating teams.
Ideally, You’ll Also Have
- Graduate degree with a minimum of 6+ years of relevant project/change management or consulting experience within medium-complexity programs
- Minimum of 3 years managing professional services teams
- Pharmaceutical or equivalent global organization experience
- Certifications: PMI, PMI Agile Practitioner, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, PROSCI Change Management, ACMP CCMP, or similar
Benefits
No information available.
Company Profile
AstraZeneca
Industry
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Revenue
$44.35B
Employees
83,500
Fortune 500 Rank
#78
Global 500 Rank
#331
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