Orals Packaging Operations Manager Worthing, South East England, England
Job description
Posted Date: Sep 18 2023
Orals Packaging Operations Manager
Closing Date for Applications – 2nd October (COB)
We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.
We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.
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In this role you will
Demonstrate leadership and development of the operational area in order to deliver on commitments made to our patients, customers and GSK stakeholders. You will be responsible for full line management of the packaging operational area, maintain a complaint operational area in terms of health, safety and environmental requirements whilst ensuring that all Quality and cGMP standards are complied with.
Lead a shift team with Team Leaders and Technicians totalling between 70-80 whilst liaising closely with support functions such as Engineering, Operational Quality and Manufacturing Science and Technology teams.
Ensure manufacture and supply of strategic products to the GSK supply chain on time and in full.
Review financial performance planning, monitoring and delivering the required business performance.
To seek to constantly improve operations by the use of appropriate Operational Excellence tools and techniques whilst coaching your team to do the same.
To comply with all company and statutory requirements taking account of all relevant HR and L&D processes and mechanisms.
Why you?
Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Degree and or correct equivalent experience.
Strong experience of pharmaceutical manufacturing or packaging operations in a first line leader role or equivalent operations support role. Lean Sigma Green or Black Belt accredited.
Good understanding of the Quality Management System and Environmental Health & Safety processes.
Evidence of delivery in a fast-paced pharmaceutical setting.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
Degree qualified in a Science or Engineering discipline.
Operating at a second line leader level in GSK or another organisation.
Ability to demonstrate coaching and development of team.
Why Us?
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 positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.
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