Quality Data Manager

The Quality function promotes quality and compliance through the product lifecycle within the wider manufacturing and production operations at GSK’s Ware Manufacturing Site.  This entails monitoring all quality related systems, improvement procedures and documentation (including analytical data and information), ensuring that products released have been manufactured, packaged and distributed according to all Regulatory and cGMP requirements (including appropriate certification for EU markets).

Job Purpose:

Reporting to the Digital & Improvement Quality Lead, the Quality Data Manager provides management and data-expertise to a team who in turn manage and maintain LIMS and Quality SAP data for the site.  The team also creates and maintains batch certificate templates and provides first line support for LIMS users and batch certificate creators across the site.

This role has circa 5 direct reports (including interim staff).

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of data analysts to create, update and verify LIMS data, assess and request the update of corresponding SAP data. The team is also responsible for creating and maintaining batch certificate templates and providing first line support for LIMS users and batch certificate generators.
• Leadership specifically entails scheduling work, monitoring performance, problem solving and supporting development of the team.
• Ensure team delivers on updates of data in line with customer requirements to meet the site’s change, launch and new product requirements. Ensure workload allocation is in alignment with demand and the site’s strategic priorities.
• Drive improvement of processes within the team through use of GPS Continuous Improvement Framework and embed improvement culture within the team
• Own SOPs and processes used within the team and ensure procedures are in use and accurate Approve data changes.

About You:

As this role is multi-faceted and includes liaising with a wide variety of on-site production and operations teams, you will be a self-motivated person who has experience of working in quality and/or manufacturing at a complex manufacturing site.  You will be resilient and calm under pressure, with strong people skills and a proven ability to influence people to achieve and drive performance.  You will have a strong continuous improvement mindset.  Effective written and verbal communication and excellent interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to organise and prioritise workload are considered essential skills.

This role requires a high-degree of technical expertise.  We are interested in hearing from applicants who have knowledge / experience in SAP and LIMS.

About Ware Manufacturing Site:

Medicines at Ware are presented as either Respiratory devices or in Oral Solid Dose form. The site holds a unique position in our network as the only site responsible for launching the company’s pipeline of new medicines in these dose forms.

CLOSING DATE for applications:  Friday 22nd of March 2024 (COB).

Basic Qualifications:

• BSc in Scientific, Technical or Engineering discipline or equivalent experience (ideally gained working in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility or other highly regulated-industry).
• Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements.
• Knowledge and application of the principle of the Quality Management Systems (QMS).

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 for support for professional development and chartership (accreditations and professional bodies)
• Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
• Employee recognition programmes

If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK | GSK.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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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