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Program Operational Readiness Senior Director
Glaxosmithkline LLC · 🇺🇸 Upper Merion Biopharm
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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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
Position Summary The Program Operational Readiness Senior Director is accountable for leading the operational readiness strategy and governance required to transition a major program from project delivery into safe, compliant, and effective site operations. This role ensures the program business case, site integration, cross-functional plans, and defined business benefits remain aligned with enterprise, site, safety, quality, regulatory, financial, and start-up objectives. The role partners with site leaders, global functions, external partners, and executive governance to confirm that the organization is prepared to receive, operate, and sustain the new asset or infrastructure. This includes ensuring that people, processes, systems, safety controls, training, and business arrangements are ready from handover through go-live, stabilization, and delivery of expected performance outcomes. This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following: • Ensure program outcomes, objectives, benefits, and the business case remain aligned with site and enterprise strategy. • Lead the steering team responsible for developing the future operating model including Quality, EHS, regulatory, HR, finance, supply chain, MSAT/technical, digital/automation, commercial, and site operations. • Drive collaboration across steering teams inclusive of capital, Smart Manufacturing, and Manufacturing Platform to maintain alignment to the endorsed strategic vision. • Define program readiness organization, governance, decision rights, capability requirements, escalation routes, forum cadence, accountable owners, and decision-ready information in partnership with the Project Director. • Frame executive decisions with clear options, trade-offs, risks, recommendations, and sponsor actions to enable timely governance decisions. Define and govern strategic risk appetite, major issue escalation, and risk-based decision making across business, delivery, readiness, compliance, and operational risks. • Protect the business case with the Project Director through disciplined control of scope, cost, schedule, contingency, major change decisions, and delivery of the approved program ambition. • Secure the resources, leadership capacity, and organizational capability required to deliver the program and sustain the future operating model. • Deliver readiness for first GMP and clinical manufacturing campaigns by embedding site operational readiness as a core workstream aligned with project scope, schedule, acceptance criteria, transition requirements, and steady-state ownership. • Support facility design, startup, CQV, operational handover, and readiness by ensuring Quality, EHS, regulatory, engineering, validation, technical, people, process, systems, training, maintenance, and supply chain requirements are embedded from design through start-up. • Ensure sustainable transition into routine operations through stakeholder communication, business acceptance, handover readiness, steady-state ownership, post-start-up benefits realization, and disciplined execution through ambiguity, capital exposure, regulatory scrutiny, and operational risk. Why You? Basic Qualification We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, project management, construction management, operations, or a scientific discipline. • Minimum 10 years’ experience in operational readiness, manufacturing operations, or program delivery in the pharmaceutical industry. • Experience in commissioning/start-up and capital project delivery. • Experience with large-scale manufact