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Director, US Portfolio Delivery (cross-TA)
Glaxosmithkline LLC · 🇺🇸 2 Locations
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 39 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 15 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Glaxosmithkline LLC paid sponsored hires in similar roles4 certified filings for “Associate Director – Genomic Technologies” (Molecular and Cellular Biologists) in PA: $134k–$138k, median $136k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Glaxosmithkline LLC
The US Department of Labor certified 39 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 15 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together. Job Purpose Director, US Portfolio Delivery (cross-TA) provides leadership, oversight and local US delivery of studies in support of global R&D programs. The LDL-Director is accountable for a portfolio of assets, and manages the activities of US Program Leads (PLs) and US Local Delivery Leads (LDLs) to ensure the delivery of all clinical studies, across therapeutic areas to the required quality standards, GSK written standards and ICH GCP. The LDL-Director operates independently and effectively in a highly complex, high volume, strategic market. Key Responsibilities: • Leads a team of PLs and LDLs operating in a highly complex environment due to scale (number of subjects/sites per study) and volume of studies conducted, providing training, coaching, mentoring, line and performance management. • Responsible for effectively managing capacity utilization of LDL resources and contributes to resourcing solutions including multi-country support by LDLs, ensuring alignment of capabilities with study requirements, resource availability and business priorities. Contribute to overall management of clinical research within the LOC via involvement in applicable leadership teams to ensure consistency and utilization of resources and best practice. • Accountable for ensuring the completion of all project management deliverables for all studies assigned to the LOC to agreed timelines, budget and quality standards. The LDL manager works with the LDLs to identify and resolve or escalate risks and issues that may impact study delivery. • Responsible for identifying and sharing best practices, standardizing across the LOC / region and representing local/regional clinical operations on global and cross functional initiatives. Ability to understand and respond to unique challenges in managing workload due to size and scale of studies. • Recruits and develops LDLs. Evaluates capabilities and competencies of internal staff, identifies and coordinates implementation of personal development plans for direct reports. • Partners with local and central teams to ensure robust study feasibility with reference to study complexity, clinical facilities and monitoring resource. • Establishes and manages key strategic relationships with external vendors to ensure clinical studies are appropriately resourced and executed as necessary. • Ensures that critical study timelines related to study activities are accurately forecasted and achieved and that recruitment targets, patient recruitment cycle times, data and audit quality and site related milestones are met. Provides trouble-shooting and problem resolution support for LDLs to ensure productive, efficient study delivery. • In collaboration with Clinical Operation Director and Local/Regional Quality, Capability & Risk Manager identifies management monitoring process checks linked with LDL activities that require inclusion in the local quality plan to ensure quality and integrity of clinical studies conducted in the LOC. • Assists with audits/inspections of local clinical operations department & study / sites in the country, as required. • Continuous d