External Manufacturing GPS Practitioner

GSK; Irvine; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

External Manufacturing GPS Practitioner

Closing Date for Applications – 17th April (COB)

The External Manufacturing (EM) GPS Practitioner role exists to build GPS capability across EM to enable delivery of the EM Strategy and improve Business Performance.

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 practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

In this role you will:

• Drive continuous and step change improvement in External Manufacturing, guided by the annual strategy deployment process
• Support day-to-day deployment of the GPS including PPM, DMAIC, Continuous Improvement & Mindset Standards and Leader standard work
• Work with the EM Leadership team and PQTS+ teams (Procurement, Quality, MSAT, Supply) to identify and agree the priorities for GPS deployment
• Support continuous capability development of self and others in the GPS standards
• Lead DMAIC problem solving and accelerators
• Actively role model GPS skills and behaviours

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• University Degree (BSc) or equivalent
• Held a number of positions in a manufacturing environment, covering a broad range of activities and operations (e.g. Production, Engineering, Quality Assurance/Logistics / Safety).
• Demonstrated delivery of improvement initiatives and/or culture change year on year resulting in both financial and non-financial benefit, and behavioural change.
• GPS experience.
• Good level of understanding of Lean / Six Sigma (Master Black Belt / Black Belt / Green belt / Orange belt)
• People change management concepts and practice

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• DMAIC certified.
• Trained coach
• Influencing skills
• Change management – ADKAR or other

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 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).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.