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Join Bristol Myers Squibb as our Operations Lead, Clinical Supply Packaging, CSO, and play a pivotal role at our thriving Moreton site!

Moreton is an essential part of our Product Development group, celebrated for close collaboration and a culture of excellence. With sustained growth and new state-of-the-art facilities, this is a unique opportunity to lead clinical supply operations in a dynamic environment.

As we expand, driven by increasing clinical trial activity, you’ll help shape the future of our operations, overseeing advanced packaging and warehousing right at the heart of innovation.

You’ll be empowered to drive efficiencies, enhance cross-functional partnerships and contribute to award-worthy environmental initiatives.

If you are passionate about operational excellence, team leadership and pioneering sustainable practices, this role offers the chance to make a real impact.

Step into a leadership position where your expertise will support ambitious growth and a shared vision for scientific advancement at Bristol Myers Squibb’s Moreton site.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrates knowledge and familiarity with a range of production equipment and can troubleshoot and resolve problems as they arise.
• Develop and recommend improvements to facilities, equipment, or procedures to improve quality, safety, and efficiency.
• Accountable for the packaging of clinical trial materials, including labelling, assembly, filling, walleting of drug products, and printing/management of labels, for worldwide patient supply
• Responsible for proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and implementing solutions to enhance efficiency, safety, and compliance within the facility
• Accountable for EHS within the team, including COSHH.
• Leads management and supervisory team in all aspects of clinical supplies packaging and labeling, ensuring execution aligns with cGMPs and SOPs.
• Uses SAP to deliver accurate technical documentation for packaging, labeling, and inspection processes.
• Provides the team with mentoring and coaching on an ongoing basis.
• Accountable for risk management across Quality and EHS practices within the CSO packaging and labelling area.
• Promote continuous improvement to support company quality policies and regulatory standards.
  • Serves as subject matter expert on global packaging teams and collaborates across departments.
• Participates on high performing teams representing global packaging organizations as subject matter expert.
  • Interacts and liaises with team members from CSO, Quality and other Pharmaceutical Development functions.
• Conducts and documents training for employees, enforces health and safety guidelines, and maintains high cGMP and housekeeping standards.
  • Completes, or acts as business reviewer for, root cause investigations, complaints, and change controls.
• Supports site strategy and packaging operations by advising on critical systems, business continuity planning and crisis management.
  • Provides input into site master planning/capital projects.
• Experienced in designing performance management tools and metrics, with strong skills in electronic systems and data analysis
• Performs all required GMP tasks as a named individual on the MHRA license for Moreton.
  • Responsible for GMP compliance for the facility in external regulatory and internal audits.

Key Skills & Knowledge

• Working knowledge of cGMP’s and regulatory (i.e., FDA, EU, OSHA, etc.) requirements and their application within a Clinical Trial packaging and labeling production environment.
• Solid record of attention to detail and strict adherence to all procedures and regulations.
• Good understanding of the pharmaceutical development process, clinical trial packaging, and design, along with associated principles.
• Extensive knowledge of GMP facility operation and a forward-thinking approach, applying innovative strategies for both the design and ongoing optimization of GMP clinical packaging environments.
• Working knowledge and experience in lean /six sigma tools and concepts; 5S, Kanban, Kaizen, Green Belt, Black Belt, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise with various support groups and lead in a team environment.
• Effectively manage competing priorities, adaptable to change, demonstrated ability to accept additional responsibilities and manage tasks through teamwork.
• Extensive working knowledge of standard office computer systems and business software systems commonly used in pharmaceutical industry (i.e., Electronic Batch Records).

Key Experience

• Prior leadership role within a GMP production operation with demonstrated ability in scheduling, organizing and team building
• Extensive experience in Deviation, management and associated root cause analysis for complex pharmaceutical investigations.
• Extensive experience in Quality Risk Management and Data Integrity practices
• Leadership experience with EHS compliance. Preferably to have an associated qualification (NEBOSH/IOSH).
• Experience in the design and implementation of novel validated computerized systems.
• Prior experience in SAP, or relevant MRP software, including recipe building/ Master Recipe creation within Electronic Batch Record systems.

Required Education

• Bachelor of Science or a Mechanical Engineering Degree required
• Relevant Experience may be considered

Required and Desired Experience

• 10+ years in pharmaceutical industry, preferably pharmaceutical manufacturing with a focus in the production of Clinical Trial Supplies.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership or managerial experience in the pharmaceutical industry

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
With a single vision as inspiring as “Transforming patients’ lives through science™ ”, every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in a supportive culture, promoting global participation in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol
BMS has an occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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R1598657 : Operations Lead, Clinical Supply Packaging, CSO