VP Site Director Rockville

The GSK Pharmaceutical Supply Chain (PSC) is responsible for making and supplying our pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products around the global. The PSC organisation is involved with every stage of production from the infrastructure of the manufacturing sites, supply forecasting, regulatory inspections and the quality of the product. In 2019 GSK produced around 2.3 billion packs of medicine. Our PSC network consists of 28 sites in 16 countries.

GSK PSC is an organisation with a proven ability to change. Over the past three years, we have become even more reliable and competitive, increasing our productivity by over 20%. We are building an agile network that delivers the next generation of medicines for patients. GSK is developing an exciting pipeline of specialty medicines at a time when technology is transforming what is possible in pharmaceutical manufacturing. 50% of our mid and late stage pipeline is large molecule. We are shifting our focus to science related to the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies. This will help us to increase our focus on specialty medicines in areas such as oncology.

Join us to lead one of our key strategic manufacuturing sites in Rockville. The Rockville Biopharm site is a new product introduction and global supply site for biopharmaceutical drug substance with multi-product large scale and small-scale mammalian cell culture capacity across two facilities with the capability to support process development work. The site manufactures products approved for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus and severe eosinophilic asthma. It will also become the launch site for a first-in-class anti-BCMA therapy for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma.

As the VP & Site Director Rockville, you will have overall executive responsibility for all activities related to and supporting the manufacture of bulk drug substance and serves as leader of the Senior Leadership Team at the site. There are eight primary areas of functional responsibility: Manufacturing Operations, three value streams, Biopharmaceutical Technology, Supply Chain Operations, EHS, Engineering Operations, GSK Production System, and Quality Operations. Groups supporting these functional activities at site are IT, Finance, and HR. Future focused strategic business and capacity planning and decision-making ability is key to this role.

This role is not for the faint hearted, you must have strong leadership capabilities, extensive site operations experience, a can-do attitude and proven experience in driving change and transformation. You will lead a key strategic site that will have critical impact for our patients helping them do more, feel better and live longer. If you are up for this challenge and can bring the skills and experience required, apply now!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Senior Leadership Team for the site.
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to all site functions to ensure successful Strategy Deployment and achievement of key business objectives.
• Perform ongoing analysis and management of risk across the site to ensure business continuity.
• Implementing and managing manufacturing outsourcing and fill/finish strategy for the company.
• Provide strategic direction and leadership to the materials management and materials planning functions to ensure effective, efficient management of materials inventories in support of manufacturing activities.
• Prepare and maintain all operations at site in a state of compliance and PAI readiness.
• Manage a staff of more than 550 employees (9 direct reports), including hiring, development, and retention. This will include developing the SLT 9-Box for talent review and management and ensuring similar activity at all levels of the organization, effective succession planning, and maintaining a participatory management approach within the organization.
• Participate as an integral part of the key governance bodies at site and above site who are charged with overseeing broad development and operations strategy and tactics for the Biopharm Supply Chain.

Skills and Experience

• BS/MS/PhD in a technical discipline.
• Previous Site Head experience.
• Biotech/biopharma or vaccines experience.
• Leadership experience in operations/technical roles.
• Drug substance experience a must-have, ideally in the last 5 years.
• Additional drug product experience preferred.
• Evidence of change agility – transformation and/or turnaround.
• Commissioning experience preferred.

• Proven skills in leading and motivating employees.
• Ability to work collaboratively at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communications skills.
• Strong presentation skills and analytical orientation.
• Experience in interfacing with all levels of management within the scientific, drug development, and administration areas within the company and externally.
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly dynamic environment, managing multiple priorities and ambitious deadlines, and motivating staff to meet challenging company goals.
• Proven skills in financial/budgeting processes, including both management of operating and capital budgets.

Applications close 15th of August 2021.

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