Senior Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls

2 weeks ago

Stevenage, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom 1925 GlaxoSmithKline LLC Full time

Are you a seasoned leader in Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Controls (CMC) looking for a challenging role that will allow you to drive scientific innovation across GSK's pharmaceutical portfolio? If so, the Head, CMC & Non-clinical Project Management, MDS position may be an exciting opportunity to explore.

The purpose of this role is to set the standard of excellence for professional project management of complex technical projects, ensuring plans and forecasts are designed and executed in alignment with the project strategy. The Head, CMC & Non-clinical Project Management, MDS will leverage their deep understanding and experience in the technical aspects of project delivery, alongside the necessary alignment of touchpoints across broader R&D and Global Supply Chain, to strategically evolve the standards and best practice of project management in the CMC & Non-clinical PM organization.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Lead the CMC & Non-clinical PM, MDS project management function, supporting the whole R&D portfolio from peri-CS through to post-launch.
  • Develop, implement, and maintain a project planning and management capability (tools, processes, ways of working, people) to enable and deliver the technical and supply aspects of all GSK's Pharma R&D pipeline medicines effectively and productively.
  • Maintain awareness of internal and external project management practice to ensure currency of MDS's approach and work to continuously improve the competency level of project management across CMC & Non-clinical PM, MDS.
  • Maintain awareness of platform technology, CMC, supply chain, non-clinical safety, and DMPK trends to ensure work package libraries and project plans are fit for purpose.
  • Provide operational input and review to ensure PM resource allocation is in alignment with project and portfolio workload forecasts and priorities across the R&D portfolio.
  • Be the point of contact for all partners and stakeholders (e.g. R&D Project Management, Finance, Global Supply Chain) to drive consistent, integrated, strategic project and resource management across CMC & Non-clinical PM, MDS. Ensure 'the voice of CMC & non-clinical functions' is strong in the development of new and improved project and resource management tools, practices, and ways of working, such that the delivery of technology and CMC/supply packages to the projects is robustly built-in during the design phases.

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in a life sciences or business discipline.
  • 10+ years experience in pharmaceutical R&D or pharmaceutical manufacturing, with 5+ years experience in project management.
  • Experience leading a global function consisting of 25+ team members.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • MSc or PhD degree in scientific or engineering discipline, together with substantial industry experience, preferably with CMC or other Pharma platform technology experience.
  • In-depth understanding of drug development processes, regulations, and requirements, with a good awareness of medicine commercialization.
  • Ability to build credibility quickly across a diverse range of teams, seniority, and geography, with high-level personal integrity, and ability to handle highly confidential information appropriately.
  • Ability to employ highly effective decision-making strategies, with sound technical and business judgment, to resolve issues and conflicting options with high risk/impact to the organization.
  • Highly effective influencing and negotiations skills in challenging, ambiguous, and/or changing environments, with or without formal authority, and across all levels of an organization.
  • Ability to work with project teams and senior leadership teams to identify novel solutions to both project-specific and portfolio-wide issues.

Please visit our website 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 organization 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.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, in the US, we adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, 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.

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