Continuous Improvement Manager / GPS Practitioner

The Barnard Castle site’s GPS Practitioner role exists to deploy and embed the GPS across the site to deliver the business strategy and to improve business performance (across quality, safety, service, cost, and innovation).

The position sits within the Global Supply Chain (GSC) business, which makes and supplies our pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products around the globe. The GSC organisation is involved with every production stage from the infrastructure of the manufacturing sites, supply forecasting, regulatory inspections, and product quality.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support day-to-day deployment of the GPS and performance improvement activities at site. Deliver according to the GPS implementation approach / road map (agreed with the Site Director, Regional GPS lead and Site GPS lead).
• Support continuous capability development of self and others, developed by the GPS Core team.
• Actively role modelling GPS skills and behaviours.
• Support/ensure consistency of progress and deployment.
• Coach Site team leaders and operators to develop sustain continuous improvement mindsets and behaviours.
• Provide expert advice on the GPS basics to the Site based on an in-depth understanding of GPS.

About You:

You will have a track record of delivery within the Manufacturing / Engineering / Quality / Supply Chain space, with demonstrated experience in the use of Lean Sigma tools. Ideally, you will be degree-educated with strong knowledge / experience obtained from working within a highly-regulated environment.

As this role is multi-faceted and collaborates with a wide variety of on-site (and above-site) production, operational and support function teams, you will also be self-motivated with strong interpersonal and influencing skills (at all levels of the organization). You will also be resilient and calm with a complete focus on providing solutions. A strong continuous-improvement mindset and a track record of delivering improvement initiatives and culture change (resulting in financial and non-financial benefit as well as behavioral change) is required.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree-qualified (or strong relevant experience) in suitable subject (e.g., technical, science or engineering).
• Relevant experience obtained from working in a cGMP environment (obtained in Manufacturing / Engineering / Quality / Logistics) to deliver improvement initiatives and cultural / behavioural change.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Lean or Six Sigma qualifications (e.g., Master Black Belt, Black Belt, Green belt).

Benefits:

GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees, which include, but are not limited to:

• Competitive base Salary
• Annual bonus based on company performance
• Opportunities to partake in on the job training courses
• Opportunities to attend and partake in industry conferences
• Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership (GSK are accredited by IET, IMechE, IChemE and other professional bodies)
• Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
• Employee recognition programmes

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.