Msat Team Lead

**Site Name**: UK - West Sussex - Worthing
**Posted Date**: Dec 10 2024

**MSAT Team Leader - 6 Months Fixed Term Contract**

**_ Closing Date for Applications - 1st January (COB)_**

This is a site-based role in Worthing, UK.

At our GSC Worthing site, we have a proud heritage in global manufacture of oral antibiotics (solid dose and dry powder suspension), The site also manufactures bulk export material for use at other manufacturing sites in our network.

On site we produce over 50 million packs to our patients each year, with growing demand in the future. To achieve this, we have a thriving community of employees who are committed to positively impacting the health of people around the world, with our products reaching patients in over 100 countries.

This role will take responsibility for leading a technical team with the wider MSAT team of technologists responsible for supporting the Orals Value Stream through resolution of day-to-day technical issues, investigation of plant investigations / customer complaints, implementation of projects in line with the site’s breakthrough objectives.

Ready to shape the future of healthcare?

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage _Life at GSK | GSK_

In this role you will:

- Identify opportunities to improve the Worthing Orals Business through robust problem-solving and continuous improvement, ensuring delivery of corrective actions, preventative actions, and minor projects against measurable targets.
- Lead the team to ensure robust delivery of day-to-day support for end-to-end site operations and systems, addressing issues with appropriate urgency and managing conflicting priorities to support order fulfilment.
- Provide troubleshooting support for production processes and equipment, supporting process and technical investigations, and developing effective corrective and preventative actions.
- Manage talent, capability, and development of the team to ensure it possesses the necessary skills to support business needs.
- Ensure process support activities are planned, resourced, and completed on time to maintain control of local KPIs, highlighting risks and removing roadblocks where possible. Enhance site capability through cross-functional coaching, training, and personal engagement.
- Provide technical leadership and expert input for all business processes, projects, investigations, and complex issues (e.g., product performance), using a data-driven approach for issue resolution.

**_ Why you?_**

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

- Degree level qualification (or strong equivalent experience) in an appropriate discipline.
- Strong ability to manage and influence stakeholder at site and the wider business.
- Excellent organisational skills with demonstrated Project Management skills and experience, particularly on major technical and/or capital projects.
- Thorough knowledge of GMP and Regulatory requirements.
- Ability to use and interpret data to drive decision making at tactical level.
- Proven capabilities in enabling and driving change, delivering solutions, developing people, and building relationships across multiple interfaces and in a matrix environment.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Thorough operational knowledge of manufacturing unit operations and plant/laboratory equipment.
- Experience in Operational Excellence tools, and use of process performance metric.
- Ability to communicate and influence effectively at all levels of the organisation.

**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 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