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Posted Date: May 11 2023

Are you energized by a highly visible role that allows you to influence senior stakeholders and shape highly effective business partnerships? If so, the Director, Engineering Quality role could be an excellent opportunity to explore.

As a Director, Engineering Quality, you will engage at a leadership level across the business unit, driving the strategic business plan for the business unit, supporting strategy and decision making with critical business insights.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following…

• Provide input, direction, and sponsorship / leadership to the GSC Quality team responsible for quality risk management of Engineering systems, facilities, utilities and equipment, into Pharma factories. Provide advice to External and Supplier Quality Operations team, supporting their work with contractors and suppliers.
• Influence the strategy, selection, architecture and integration of Engineering contractors, systems, facilities, utilities, and equipment across the GSC supply chain. Ensure the required Quality assurance processes are embedded. Authority to pause global Engineering projects at critical project decision gates if key criteria for Quality are not met.
• Provide the framework to maintain audit readiness and compliance expectations of GSK QMS and the regulators for Engineering Quality, including commissioning and validation of facilities, utilities, and equipment. Provide technical subject matter expertise to the Quality audit functions.
• Negotiate between GSC Supply Chain Quality and central Engineering as needed to drive the standardization of site Engineering business processes, equipment, facilities, and engineering IT systems.
• Assess skills, knowledge, and ensure robust development and capability plans are developed and embedded within Engineering and within own team. Provide training and development opportunities and serve in a coaching / mentoring role to support both individual and team growth.
• Provide input, direction, and business sponsorship / leadership to the GSC Quality strategy deployment programs and ambition. Align and deliver programs to meet operational targets.
• Build and maintain a strong business and technical link with central Engineering, Vx Engineering and external bodies such as ISPE to maintain currency of technical know-how.
• Interface and build robust partnerships across GSK (WREF, IT, Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality functions, Sites) to deliver Engineering Quality Assurance expectations; reveal and solve problems across the business in managing these expectations.
• Ensure the team receives the necessary training and experience to operate with the key principles of the GPS framework and to advance within the GPS maturity roadmap. Embed performance management systems to insure both Lead and Lag measures actively track progress to the agreed functional targets and problem-solve issues as necessary. Use GEMBA to reveal problems and support the definition of appropriate target conditions.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or Science discipline
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience managing the design, delivery, and support of GxP engineering systems and/or production or new product introduction within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience managing and/or leading projects including development of business case, implementation plans and financial controls.
• Experience with pharmaceutical processing, validation and cGMPs.
• Experience delivering an organizational change management initiative

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Experience driving Quality Standards into an Engineering or Technical Organization
• Proven technical and leadership skills
• Six Sigma and Lean Manufacturing experience; Black Belt or Green Belt desirable
• Experience managing Engineering suppliers / contract providers and ensuring relevant Quality management system standards embedded into daily operations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to work across the organization and interact/influence/negotiate effectively at all levels of management and peers
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills to investigate issues and determine root cause.
• Ability to recruit and motivate highly skilled and trained individuals
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Professional Engineering registration a plus.

Why GSK?

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 medicine and vaccine doses in 2022.

We continue to modernize, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst turbo-charging delivery 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 automation and robotics so we can work smarter together.

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