Executive/Assistant Manager - Production

Business Introduction
We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.
Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.
We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

Position Summary
You will lead a small production team to deliver safe, compliant and reliable manufacturing every day. You will coach operators, solve operational problems, and keep processes in control. You will work closely with Quality, Engineering, Planning and EHS colleagues to remove barriers and improve performance. We value practical leaders who learn fast, collaborate openly and care about reliable supply. This role offers hands-on responsibility, clear growth opportunities, and a chance to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Job Title - Executive/Assistant Manager-Production

Job Purpose
The purpose of the First Line Leader role is ‘To develop and enable a first touch team of operators to consistently deliver outstanding safety, quality, service and value to the person at the end of our supply chain’. The role has a direct hour by hour impact on the ambition of the GMS Strategy to achieve the three zeros on Accidents, Defects and Waste.
First Line Leader role is required to focus a minimum of 70% of their time on the shop-floor.

Key Responsibilities

Process management by creating and confirming standards:

• Process confirmations against the 4M’s Material, Manpower, Method, Measurement.
• Required to manage safety, quality, compliance and output. This includes being well prepared to have a good shift/batch/day/etc.
• Ensuring adoption and adherence to the Leader Standard Work, and the application of Standard Work for roles within the area by staff.
• Being highly visible during times in the shift when there is more risk for issues e.g. Line changeovers and providing guidance and resolving problems as they arise.
• Ensuring alignment to and providing data for the tiered accountability meetings within the area and on site. Following through on resulting actions in a timely fashion.
• Ensure cGMP, regulatory, QMS, EHS, internal and external audit compliance.
• Conduct Management monitoring audit as per schedule.
• Active engagement in Governance review meetings for the area e.g. Safety meetings, TIP review.
• Input to GSK systems e.g. SAP, VQMS, VQD, Workday etc.

Performance management and Problem solving within the business area that the FLL is responsible for.

• Setting target conditions, and delivering against this, to achieve improvements in performance to meet future business needs
• Fully deploying performance management process within area ensuring accurate and timely data is used.
• Real time issue identification and resolution involving staff. Including running of GSK Problem solving process with staff and necessary Support Functions, line side.
• Current state analysis and “TOP 3 issues” identified with aligned target
  conditions/actions using Lead and Lag measures to track and improve.
• Ensuring that the appropriate Deviation procedure and problem-solving processes are used to avoid reoccurrence of issues.
• Ensuring the area returns to standard after a safety, quality or performance/output deviation/incident in a controlled manner.
• Ensuring that they understand the cost budget for the area and the impact that they and their team can have on this.

People Leadership – full people leadership for a team of staff working within a production environment

• Leading and coaching of teams on shift to ensure adherence to standards for safety, quality, compliance and output.
• Working with the team to continuously improve the capability of both the individuals and the overall team to increase their performance towards targets.
• Ensuring development plans and PDPs are undertaken on a regular basis using the 70:20:10 and GSK methods. This includes ensuring that the training required is identified, recorded using the appropriate method and ensure that the training is undertaken using local processes.
• Coaching and providing development to improve the behaviour/performance of individuals and the team to ensure that the expectations are being met. This will include holding people to account for the duties that they are responsible.
• Disciplinary, Absence management, Grievance procedures as appropriate in site.
• Role modelling the expected behaviours and standards for all staff in the area.

Knowledge/ Education / Experience Required
A. Educational Background
1. Minimum Level of Education - B.Pharm / M.Pharm
Area of Specialisation - Ointment Manufacturing/Packaging Operation
Why is this Level of Education Required? - To understand and implement Job requirement

2. Preferred Level of Education - Bachelors/Masters
Area of Specialisation - Pharma Graduate
Why is this Level of Education Preferred? - Has more clarity of the job role.

B. Job-Related Experience
Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience required - Minimum Level of Job-Related Experience required 7-10 yrs of working experience in a Pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
Why is this Level of Experience Required? - Acquaintance to the pharmaceutical and job requirements

C. Other Job-Related Skills/Background
Advanced knowledge of MS-Word, MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint.
Certification from FDA for Competent Technical Staff (Mandatory)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels and across functions.
Sound knowledge of ‘audit’ requirements from quality and safety perspective within the pharmaceutical business.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

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