Deputy Head of The Supply Team

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 417051

**Salary**:

- £46,060
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer
- Senior Scientific Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- VMD Supply Team

**Type of role**:

- Science

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- This role will be contractually based at the VMD, Woodham Lane, New Haw, Addlestone, Surrey KT15 3LS.
You will be expected to be in the office or working away from home for at least 60% of your time.
To meet the necessary security requirements for the VMD location, you must have been a resident in the UK for the past three years.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
**About the VMD**

You may not have heard of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), but have you ever:

- eaten meat, eggs, fish or honey
- drunk milk
- owned a pet or animal
- taken antibiotics

If you said yes to any of the above, you are directly affected by what the VMD does.

The VMD is the regulatory and policy lead responsible for issues concerning the authorisation, use, and manufacture of veterinary medicines in the UK.

Our aim is to protect public health, animal health, and the environment, and promote animal welfare by assuring the safety, quality and effectiveness of veterinary medicines.

Find out more at: About us - Veterinary Medicines Directorate - GOV.UK

**About the job**

**Job description**:
**Your main duties will be to**:

- Line manage four team members.
- Manage a diverse workload with conflicting priorities to ensure that externally published standards and supporting internal targets are met.
- Lead on assessing the potential animal and public health impact for reported shortages of UK authorised veterinary medicines, developing procedures to enhance the transparency of public information on these.
- Foster strong stakeholder relationships to gain early insight into potential shortages through hosting regular meetings.
- Take a leading role in monthly licensing business meetings that includes a review of issues and trends affecting availability and import of veterinary medicines.
- Lead a review to identify and produce retrospective public assessment reports where gaps exist.
- Provide expert technical guidance to the team, internal colleagues, and key stakeholders on the interpretation and implementation of policy changes or emerging issues, ensuring timely and accurate adjustments to operational processes.
- Represent the Supply Team in various meetings, for example National Office of Animal Health licensing, Licensing Business Focus Group, and Authorisation After meetings.
- Help identify and introduce efficiencies; in doing so review processes utilising change management processes and project management principles.
- Participate in wider corporate activities, including engagement with IT teams for the development and maintenance of the Special Import and Export Certificate Schemes.
- Comply with ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 27001 (information security) standards, and GDPR and record management requirements, ensuring VMDs quality management system is embedded within the Team.
- Act corporately - meeting, role-modelling, embedding, and championing the corporate objectives set by the VMD.

**Person specification**:
**We’re looking for you to have**:

- Knowledge of, or an ability to get up to speed rapidly, with veterinary medicine authorisation procedures and the associated legislation. (Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013, as amended)
- Strong leadership skills and line management experience.
- Experience of working collaboratively, building strong supportive relationships with stakeholders.
- Experience of drafting and reviewing Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and processes.

**We’re looking for someone that**:

- Can present complex information confidently and with clarity in an engaging manner to large and diverse groups of people.
- Is proactive, energetic and feels comfortable making evidence-based decisions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- Has an ability to prioritise workload to meet tight and conflicting deadlines, and support own team to deliver agreed objectives.
- Is a competent user of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and has an ability to get rapidly up to speed with VMD in-house databases.

**Qualifications**:

- A minimum of a bachelor's degree in a relevant scientific field e.g. veterinary, animal health, life sciences.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Leadership
- Making Effective Decisions

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £46,060, Veterinary Medicines Directorate contributes £13,343 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what ben