Job description
Site Name:UK – London – New Oxford Street
Posted Date:Jan 21 2025
Quality Compliance Director – Biologics & Devices (B&D)
This role can be based in London, UK or at other strategic GSK locations in Europe and US on a case-by-case basis.
The role provides leadership and direction to ensure the Biologics & Devices Quality operates in compliance with GSK standards. It will report into the VP, Quality Biologics & Devices As Quality Compliance Director B&D, you:
- Lead Quality performance and compliance for the operational business unit, monitoring the KPI Performance and initiating action as required.
- Ensure incidents are appropriately escalated, managed, and communicated to the authorities.
- Provide support in assessing the impact of critical deviations.
- Ensure the Quality risks for the business unit products are identified understood and managed and that the Quality Risk Model is used to effectively identify and manage risk.
- Act as the Business process owner interface for quality systems and processes, partnering with quality leaders across global teams.
In this role you will:
- Support the implementation of the quality strategy for B&D Quality.
- Contribute to quality performance and culture ensuring adverse trends in compliance dashboards are investigated and action taken. Support site inspections as required.
- Oversight/ Chair for PIRC and LIC process ensuring incidents are properly escalated and managed and supports key quality decisions.
- AL3 chair (where there is not an aligned PQL for the product)
- Local business owner for enterprise quality systems, a key interface between B&D quality and Quality Systems and Data team.
- Accountable for the Tier 2 Quality Council process for B&D Quality, and leads Regional Quality RMCB ensuring agenda and escalation are appropriate to drive improvement and mitigate risks. Ensure that QC process is continuously improved.
- Accountable for the Quality Performance meeting ensuring that all the quality metrics are understood, trend identified and resolved, and status of compliance improved, including leading Quarterly Deviation Trend review and coordinating regional CAPAs and actions
Why you?
Basic Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Degree qualified in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Pharmacy or related scientific disciplines
- Significant experience in a Quality in highly regulated environment
- Experience in Product Quality and Compliance •
- Experience in Manufacturing Operations •
- Knowledge of cGMP globally •
- Knowledge of CEP products •
- Knowledge and application of the QMS
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing capabilities
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:
- MSc or PhD or other Chartered / Professional Qualification in Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Pharmacy or related scientific disciplines
- Knowledge of OE tools and KPI management
- Excellent management, communication and interpersonal skills, with comfort cooperating with individuals internally and externally at all organisational levels.
- Experience setting goals and driving results, defining priorities, managing and influencing individual and team performance.
- Fluency in English both Written and Spoken
Closing Date for Applications – 4th February 2025
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We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 2.3 billion packs of medicines and doses of vaccines in 2023.
We continue to modernise, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst continuing to deliver across our entire portfolio through our relentless focus on quality, safety, and service. The way we work will change. For some, the shift in technology and products will be revolutionary.
Our R&D pipeline demands a new kind of supply chain, and we need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.
If you are interested in joining us, find out more:
Annual Report 2023
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).
Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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