Job description
Site Name:UK - Hertfordshire - Ware
Posted Date:Nov 7 2024

Respiratory & Micronising MSAT Director

This is a site-based role at Ware, UK.

At the Global Supply Chain (GSC) Ware site, we have a heritage in delivering innovative medicines for diseases like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), HIV and cancer.  Ware is an exhilarating place to work, being the new product introduction site (NPI) for respiratory and oral solid dose medicines. Since 2017, we have proudly supported the launch of over 15 medicines.

We are co-located with our R&D colleagues and have recently unveiled a state-of-the-art oral solid dose facility at Ware. Here, scientists, technicians, and engineers from R&D and GSC collaborate using the latest technologies and rapid knowledge transfer to deliver GSK’s most innovative medicines faster and more efficiently.

On-site, we produce over 60 million respiratory inhalers each year, with growing demand in the future. The site also processes Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) for use both on-site and at other manufacturing sites in our network.

To achieve this, we have a thriving community of employees who are committed to positively impacting the health of people around the world, with our products reaching patients in over 100 countries.

The Respiratory Execution Team Director is accountable for leading the

Respiratory and Micronising MSAT Team GSC Ware. They will collaborate with other sites and Global MSAT to control and continuously improve product performance through Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). They are responsible for managing lifecycle changes, regulatory changes, API / excipient changes, productivity improvements and procurement must-wins. They are also responsible for daily product problem-solving and providing dose form-specific expertise working closely with the Value Stream Management Team.

In this role you will:

• Leads the Product Lifecycle Management (Technical Risk Assessment, Product Control Strategies, Validation, Process Robustness Assessment) for GSC Ware
• Responsible for managing the team to deliver Product Lifecycle Management at Ware; this includes owning the Cost Of Waste for the site (currently ~£16m).  
• Co-Leading the global PTRT for RSC to ensure aligned strategy for the organisation on platform and process capability.
• Responsible for ensuring that core MSAT business processes are implemented for all products currently at and transferred to GSC Ware.  
• Matrix leadership across R&D, Technical, Engineering, Operations, Quality, Packaging & Logistics to support product control strategy translation to shop floor, utilizing the principles of the GSK Production System (GPS). 
• Provide MSAT leadership for the rapid resolution of technical issues impacting supply and product performance investigations through use of root cause analysis (RCA) tools and appropriate Corrective and Preventative Actions (CAPA) and escalate key site technical issues to the wider GSC MSAT community for timely resolution. 
• Responsible for dose platform ownership and new technology industrialisation (with Engineering), creating platform strategies of the future with the central organisations 

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Why You?
Required Qualifications and experience: 

• Degree qualified in a Scientific or Engineering discipline
• Considerable demonstrated experience in a leadership role
• Experience in leadingMSAT/technical teams and delivering solutions in Manufacturing or at R&D/Manufacturing Interface
• Strong experience in Product Lifecycle Management
• Project Management principles and delivery
• EHS experience
• Team leadership and development expertise

Preferred Qualifications and experience:

• Masters or PHD qualification in a relevant discipline
• Digital Data Analytics experience
• Exposure to Inspection readiness and Pre Approval Inspections 
• Regulatory dossier update experience
• Ability to use and interpret data to drive decision making at both tactical and strategic level 
• Proven capabilities in enabling and driving change, delivering solutions, developing people, and building relationships across multiple interfaces and in a matrix environment

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

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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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