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We continue to modernise, 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.

Documentation Lead

This is an exciting opportunity to lead Documentation standards at the Barnard Castle site. The Barnard Castle site is located in the North East of England within the County Durham countryside. Barnard Castle is a critical secondary site for GSK with a large number of New Products coming through development from R&D. We manufacture and supply a huge range of different pharmaceutical products from Sterile Biological and Small Molecule Products to Liquid Inhalations and Dermatologicals. We have recently opened a new state-of-the-art aseptic digital facility focussed on producing GSKs pipeline of new biopharmaceuticals.

The Documentation Lead will ensure all documentation at site is maintained in a compliant and standardised manner in accordance with the QMS Documentation Management and Control requirements. The site is the largest user of Veeva QualityDocs (VQD) in the network and it is critical to ensure documents that are created and maintained within the system are inspection ready and able to support successful external inspections. There are a number of other documentation systems in use at site and they also require oversight to ensure compliance with emerging and evolving standards including adherence to archiving and retention requirements.

In This Role:

• Ensure compliance with all Quality Management System changes related to documentation practices, with a process in place to evaluate and embed these changes into all relevant site procedures
• Responsible for the site standard and control of SOPs
• Fronts audits and inspections regarding the documentation systems in use
• Coordinate with the Learning and Development team the training requirements needed for documentation processes
• Report any escalations to line management and where necessary, site Quality Council
• Support the business in defining corrective and preventive actions associated with observations and findings related to documentation from audits, which are subsequently tracked to completion through the Quality system
• Oversight of document storage and control of all documents in VQD, monitoring trends and creating dashboards to aid visibility / support performance management
• Use GPS to promote and embed a culture to assure daily inspection readiness of documentation processes
• Benchmark performance of documentation practices inside GSK
• Responsible for the management of documentation risks at site to ensure they are appropriately assessed, mitigated and risk managed
• Promote the Data Integrity Programme with respect to documentation practices
• Leadership of the site Archiving processes and ensuring an effective service is provided to the site
• Provide the site with a point of contact from central IT for VQD and for the site-based teams
• Conduct self-inspection audits of the VQD environment, ensuring appropriate access permissions are granted to all users and to provide assurance as to the conformance of site documentation processes to GXP and internal GSK Quality standards
• Ensure active participation in the Community of Practice for VQD.
• Lead the implementation of improvements in the VQD platform ensuring all items are appropriate, timely, fully communicated and completed to plan.
• Create system IT incidents tickets, as required, to resolve issues with VQD performance.
• Responsible for managing Restricted and External audience access to VQD.

Closing Date for Applications: 17th March 2023

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Why you?

Basic Qualifications

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

• Quality, Compliance and regulatory requirements
• Knowledge of QMS and Regulatory guidelines
• Pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Innovative and creative
• Ability to work well under pressure within tight timelines
• Interpersonal skills: Works well with others, able to champion new ways of working
• Analytical: Able to analyse complex data / information / scenarios and make rational, risk-based decisions
• Training and experience in Operational Excellence / LeanSigma / GPS
• Communication skills: Ability to articulate decisions or recommendations clearly and confidently
• QMS Gap Analysis and Implementation

Preferred Qualifications/ Experience

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

• Experience with electronic document control systems
• Management of documentation within an electronic system as a Local Business Administrator
• Improvement experience to aid simplification of the processes involved
• Author of documents, especially Standard Operating Procedures and Standard Work Instructions

Why GSK?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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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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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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