Senior Operational Excellence Practitioner

The Senior GPS Practitioner is accountable for the site operations continuous improvement program that is aligned to the GSK Production System to deliver the business strategy and improve business performance across the scorecard (safety, quality, service, cost, and people).

As a key member of the Extended Leadership team (XLT) the practitioner is responsible for:

• Deployment of GPS with a team of GPS practitioners to achieve site capability goals for GPS, measure and track improvement plans.

• Business Partner to Manufacturing Science and Technology Team to streamline and deliver NPI milestones and support Rapid Response problem resolution.
• Establishing and executing the Upper Merion Site GPS plan and management of KPIs in PPM including GPS Maturity
• Add value to patients and business by driving a zero-waste supply chain and making efficiencies, including the use of digital, data and analytics tools in conjunction with Lean practices.

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

• Role model GPS skills and lean leadership behaviors and be a subject matter expert in GPS and Six Sigma. Establish and lead the site continuous improvement program aligned to OneGPS standards.
• Collaborate with the Site Director and SLT to identify and agree on the GPS implementation in alignment with the site strategy deployment. Drive the site strategy process aligned to Value Stream/Waste mapping.
• Partner with GPS Lead to build and maintain GPS expertise within the Functional Group (Transformation Team)
• Lead day to day deployment of the GPS as well as all related improvement activities at site level (business impact on safety, quality, cost, and people). Must be active participant in Process Performance Management of assigned value stream
• Support SLT in the identification of financial and non-financial benefits associated with GPS implementation. Active member of the site Strategy Deployment team.
• Ensure a robust GPS system is in place and track progress of the site GPS deployment roadmap and self-assess the site GPS maturity level. Report on all required data to central teams as required.
• Teach, train, mentor, coach at all site levels in GPS and Lean methodologies. Must be active in problem solving and Gemba daily,
• Drive and develop the capability of all leaders to lead and own their continuous improvement plan and champion CI activities.
• Ensure consistency of progress across the site and network by sharing and adopting lessons learned.
• Be an active member of the Regional GPS network including regular performance reporting and sharing of best practices; Benchmarking site performance vs other sites / companies to set appropriate Operational Performance ambition

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Science or Engineering
• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt Certification
• 5 years of operational excellence experience
• 5 years manufacturing and/or supply chain experience
• 2 year of experience of leadership in change and transformation with accountability for a continuous improvement program
• Project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• MBA
• Leading Teams
• Change Management
• Digital Transformation

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Why GSK?

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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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