Quality Digital Innovation Senior Specialist

The Quality function promotes quality and compliance through the product life-cycle within the wider manufacturing and production operations at GSK Barnard Castle Manufacturing Site. The Quality function at GSK plays a critical role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety, efficacy, and compliance. As part of this team you will uphold our commitment to delivering high-quality medicines and vaccines, and healthcare products to patients and consumers around the world.

**Job Purpose**:
Reporting into the site’s Quality Systems and Data Lead, the **Quality Digital Innovation Senior Specialist**provides oversight and management of the data provision process to ensure the accuracy and consistency of data provision across the site. The roles responsibilities extends to driving improvements to the provision of data in all functions (in terms of quality and speed).

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that data provision is consistent and accurate
- Provide oversight of data provision quality ensuring that data provision is performed in line with procedures
- Provide advice and support throughout site with respect to SAP data provision
- Ensure the adoption of the simplified, standardised SAP solution, minimizing customisation and maximising the adoption of embedded standard SAP good-practices
- Working with core SAP functions to introduce new core functionality and to escalate risks as appropriate
- Identify opportunities for improvement within the data provision and approval functions
- Develop Change Improvement Frameworks and actions to address improvements
- Development and delivery of training materials with respect to SAP data provision to improve the capability of the site

**About You**:
As this role interacts with a wide variety of on-site production and operations teams, you will be a self-motivated person who has experience of working with data. Your experience will have been gained whilst working in a complex highly-regulated manufacturing industry. Familiarity with data tools (including Excel) is required. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills are also considered valuable skills (to influence people to achieve and to drive performance).

**About Barnard Castle**:
GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site. We have invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases. As a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.

**Basic Qualifications**:

- Degree in relevant Scientific, Technical or Engineering discipline (eg; Computer Science or related field of study) or strong relevant equivalent experience (ideally gained working in a Manufacturing Facility for a highly-regulated industry).

- Relevant knowledge / experience in data management and data systems (as well as scientific principles) for the implementation and optimisation of digital solutions in a highly-regulated environment.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements.

**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 to attend and partake in industry conferences

- Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership

- 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.

The Quality function promotes quality and compliance through the product life-cycle within the wider manufacturing and production operations at GSK Barnard Castle Manufacturing Site. The Quality function at GSK plays a critical role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety, efficacy, and compliance. As part of this team you will uphold our commitment to delivering high-quality medicines and vaccines, and healthcare products to patients and consumers around the world.

**Job Purpose**:
Reporting into the site’s Quality Systems and Data Lead, the **Quality Digital Innovation Senior Specialist**provides oversight and management of the data provision process to ensure the accuracy and consistency of data provision across the site. The roles responsibilities extends to driving improvements to the provision of data in all functions (in terms of quality and speed).

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Ensure that data provision is consistent and accurate
- Provide oversight of data provision quality ensuring that data provision is performed in line with procedures
- Provide advice and support throughout site with respect to SAP data provision
- Ensure the adoption of the simplified, standardised SAP solution, minimizing customisation and maxim