Batch Release Manager

Closing Date for Applications – 10th October (COB)

The Batch Release Manager has responsibility for the Batch Document Review and Release processes and to supply fully compliant material with delivery of customer service whilst maintaining quality and safety standards for the area of their responsibility.

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.

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In this role you will:

• Provide effective leadership of a Business Unit aligned Operational Quality team, to ensure that products released for sale have been manufactured and packaged in accordance with cGMP and licensing requirements.
• Provide support and coaching for GMP, documentation errors, root cause analysis and CAPA for deviations across the site.
• Liaising with other QA groups to ensure that all other aspects of testing and results verification have been completed before batch release.
• Will support the resolution of any issues arising from deviations and verdict batches accordingly in line with QMS standards.
• Ensure that Batch Documentation Review and Release operations are managed to deliver customer service and production schedule requirements within the budget control.
• Management of the Batch Release team to include recruitment and selection, training and development, competency assessment, resource management and control, performance reviews, performance management, employee reward and recognition.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Graduate Level (Scientific discipline)
• Incumbent should have appropriate level of Quality or Pharmaceutical experience.
• Knowledge and application of the principles of Quality Management System (QMS)
• Be able to demonstrate leadership qualities and understand people management requirements (personal development process, absence management etc.).
• Have strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to influence direct reports, peer group across disciplines and senior management at the site.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Operational Excellence (OE), including Continuous Improvement, skills that facilitate scheduling, standard work and process improvement. Computer skills, including use of Microsoft Office programs Excel/Power Point/Word/Teams, SAP.

About Worthing Manufacturing Site:

Manufacturing at the Worthing site is for antibiotics.  It is advised that you take this into consideration when deciding to apply for this position.

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.

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).

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