Are you energized by a scientific leadership role that allows you to enhance and improve processes across biopharmaceutical product development?  If so, this could be an ideal opportunity to explore.

The purpose of the Biopharmaceutical Production Manager role is to be a part of a dynamic operations team that brings life changing and life saving medicine to patients around the world. They will demonstrate GSK Values (Patient Focus, Transparency, Respect, & Integrity) and Expectations (Courage, Accountability, Development, & Teamwork) on a daily basis by engaging positively with team members and production support groups. Under the direction of the Value Stream Lead and Site Leadership, the Production Manager will be accountable for the safe, compliant, and cost effective execution of large scale biopharmaceutical processes. They will work with other department heads across the value stream to execute short and long term projects that will drive sustained performance for existing and new products.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following:

• Demonstrate GSK Values – Patient Focus, Transparency, Respect, and Integrity – in every interaction, in every work task, and with every responsibility of the job role. Live GSK’s Expectations of Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork to achieve and model high performing behaviors in the workplace.
• Responsible for assuring full compliance against all appropriate manufacturing and safety regulations such as local policy and procedures, GSK QMS/EHS, CFR/cGMP, OSHA standards, and all applicable environmental regulations (local, state, and federal).
• Ensures good documentation and data integrity practices, by overseeing and approving improvements to standard operating procedures, batch document instructions, and logbooks
• Prioritizes departmental technical objectives by using equipment and process data, historical performance, OE tools, and capacity of staff.
• Approves investigations that are the result of safety or compliance issues, and leads a values-based culture by displaying and encouraging full transparency.
• Ensures the appropriate accountability of cross-functional activities, such as engineering studies, validation studies and Tech Transfer studies
• Pursues and proposes changes to current and emerging digital platforms (SAP, EBR, AR/VR, etc)
• Accountable for a workforce plan that ensures the personnel development and performance management planning for all direct and indirect reports within the department
• Establish production standards and manpower requirements to meet delivery schedules.
• Partner with the NPI lead for successful implementation of new products and processes into the facility production equipment and schedules

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Biomedical engineering, Biotechnology
• 7+ years of production in biopharm/biotech or similar technology-based industry
• 3+ years of leadership experience
• 5+ years of large scale cell culture or fermentation based processing

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MS or Ph.D. in biological science or biochemical engineering desirable.
• Strong quality/compliance orientation and track record.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Strong influence and relationship building skills with an emphasis on teamwork
• Good written communication, organizational, and computer skills

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Please visit  GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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.

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