Job description
Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle
Posted Date: Nov 6 2024
Site Launch Data Control (SLDC) Manager – 2 Years Fixed Term Contract
Closing Date for Applications – 20th November (COB)
* Responsible for managing the Site Launch & Data Control teams to deliver New Products, New Packs and Pack Changes for the Barnard Castle site.
* Ensure that GMP, Quality, Health & Safety, commercial risks, and adherence to regulatory requirements have been applied.
* Accountable for the Site’s role within the Artwork Packaging Service (APS) business processes and systems, including direct responsibility for the management of the interface with the Regional Service Centres.
* Maintain motivation and development of strong, flexible launch and change teams capable of meeting current, and responding to future business requirements.
* To manage the process of pack-change and launch meetings.
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:
* Be accountable for meeting customer expectations ensuring functional areas within the site supply chain deliver against their milestones, resolving issues affecting progression of artwork changes and launches.
* Management of risk within the production schedules to ensure supply is available and planned in via the relevant pack change/launch meetings.
* Management and oversight of site and market driven projects to ensure key milestones are met.
* Ensure the cross-functional Site Supply Team delivers key milestones.
* Understand that criticality of supply is a key GSK objective and build required project timelines to match this ambition. Prioritise changes and communicate to customers to maximise commercial ambition.
* Communicate to on-site and off-site stakeholders on project progression and issues where applicable. This includes GSK Commercial or third-party customers as appropriate.
Why you?
Qualifications & Skills:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
* Highly developed internal and external customer focus and stakeholder management experience.
* Good understanding of PAO and Launch processes.
* Sound understanding of GSK and Supply Chain Processes.
* Demonstrated knowledge of the markets and products supplied.
Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
* Lean Six Sigma CI Qualification
* Experience of SAP and Artwork Management Systems is preferred.
* Ability to manage high workload against demanding timelines, prioritising where necessary to meet these.
* Sound interpersonal skills, team working, performance management, staff development and coaching experience.
* Project Management skills across different GSK departments and third-party suppliers.
Why GSK?
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.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).
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