LCA Analyst Irvine, Scotland
Job description
Posted Date: Mar 8 2023
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 1.7 billion packs of medicine and 767 million vaccine doses in 2021.
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.
LCA Analyst
GSK has announced new ambitious environmental sustainability goals to have a net zero impact on climate and a net positive impact on nature by 2030 across our entire end to end value chain.
This position is part to the Ecodesign workstream, sitting within GSK’s Group Sustainability Team. In addition to acting as a custodian of GSK’s Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Standard and of GSK’s Product Footprinting Tool (PFT), this role will support the delivery of all technical aspects of the sustainability strategy for both existing and next generation products.
There is remote working flexibility in this role, however you would be expected to be UK / Europe based and work at GSK House site periodically.
In this role you will
- Act as a recognised global expert and leader in LCAs, with strong delivery mindset and communication style to engage our employees globally.
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Value chain & Product Footprinting:
- Become GSK’s product footprint expert, performing LCAs that will be used to identify hotspots and opportunities to reduce the footprint across climate and nature and support product related environmental claims.
- Help to create and maintain reduction glidepaths in any hotspots identified.
- Upskilling: Support the training and accreditation of GSK personnel and maintenance of associated training materials.
- Governance: Change control and maintenance of GSK’s footprints.
- Building repository of best practices and sharing them to amplify stakeholder engagement and promote consistent application.
- Develop systems and reporting to increase access and availability of data that enables better decision making.
- Support delivery of critical Ecodesign projects, taking an active role to manage and drive towards delivery as required.
- Build partnerships across matrix teams, supporting GSK’s Group Sustainability and Ecodesign teams to ensure the necessary technical sustainability capabilities are in place to meet the evolving business and regulatory requirements.
- Support GSK Central Sustainability strategies to address three overarching environmental focus areas: a) Technical sustainability integration and collaboration, including stakeholder upskilling, b) product End-of-Life impacts and c) environmental impacts of manufacturing with focus on circularity, emerging technologies, packaging and delivery systems, raw materials, pharmaceuticals in environment etc.
Why you?
We are looking for professionals with the following traits to help achieve our goals:
- An interest in sustainability and/or lifecycle assessments
- LCA or Carbon Footprints expertise (preferred but not essential).
- Ability to independently work cross functionally.
- Curiosity and ability to analyse complex, high dimensional data sets, building novel, innovative models to solve challenging business problems and/or identifying untapped opportunities.
Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Engineering, Science, Environmental Science, Environment Management, Business or related fields.
- Excellent written skills, with specific experience authoring reports/requests and other related deliverables.
- Excellent communication skills; a pro-active and collaborative team approach, promoting inclusivity, support and motivation amongst peers; a desire to go beyond process and procedure, with an ability to think innovatively to enhance program outcomes.
- Fast thinking and versatile; able to navigate through complex environment; multi-tasking.
- Be able to compile, integrate and analyse data from multiple sources to answer business questions.
- Demonstrated ability to drive positive change in sustainability with credibility and the ability to influence at senior levels of the organisation without direct line management.
- Experience and in-depth scientific/technical knowledge of pharmaceutical products, whether in process development, product development, scale-up, or operations (preferred but not essential).
Closing Date for Applications: 22nd March 2023
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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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