Site GPS Lead

We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients' needs and drive our performance.
Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it's vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.
We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.

This role is an exciting opportunity to lead the deployment of the GSK Production System (GPS) at one of our key manufacturing sites in the United States. You will play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement, building capability, and embedding a culture of operational excellence across the site. As a member of the site leadership team, you will collaborate with diverse teams to deliver meaningful impact on safety, quality, service, cost, and people. This position offers the chance to make a tangible difference, develop leadership skills, and contribute to GSK's mission of uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Ensure site critical projects and programs, which encompasses complex business, technical, and business change projects, have clear scope, governance, prioritization, resource management, risk management, business change management and financial controls in place to provide a smooth transition from project to fully supported customer hand-over.
• Lead initiatives across the organization in support of business strategy and to improve ways of working. Coach and train all the Site personnel on GSK Production System (GPS/OE) tools and principles to develop the skills and capabilities.
• Lead site GPS maturity improvement plan.
• Interface and partner with the GSK central teams and other sites to contribute, share and leverage best practice Program Management and GPS as appropriate.
• Ensure robust and consistent Project Management Office (PMO) processes exist in order to deliver clear scope, governance, prioritization, resource management, risk management and financial controls are in place to provide a smooth transition from project to fully supported customer hand-over.
• Work with Site Director and Site Leadership team to identify, agree and deploy GPS priorities, Strategy Deployment 3-year plan and targets for following year and critical projects across site, including those to be led by GPS and PMO team.
• Accountable for day-to-day consistency of deployment of GPS as well as all key improvement activities across site and supporting value streams. Track progress of the site GPS deployment roadmap and self-assessment of site maturity level.
• Manage and implement multiple large and complex projects, develop program plans and timelines, make staffing decisions based on assessment of team members' skills and workloads as well as identify obstacles.
• Ensure PMO team delivers: Design and execution of project plans and budgets: (1) On time and on budget delivery of projects, including business change management plan (2) Compliance with regulatory requirements, GSK policies and standards (3) Robust risk management; including Business Continuity Plans: Establishing strong relationships across project teams, functions and stakeholders for delivery and execution of projects (4) Prepare contingency and recovery plans if delays or overruns are anticipated, engaging stakeholders through effective governance processes

Basic Qualifications
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:

• - Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of operational excellence experience within a regulated industry

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

• Advanced degree or additional certifications in engineering, manufacturing, or business management.
• Black Belt certification in Lean or Six Sigma.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools.
• Broad experience across manufacturing functions, such as production, engineering, quality, logistics, and safety.
• Proven ability to lead transformational projects and manage change effectively.

This is an on-site role based in Rockville, MD, United States, with opportunities for collaboration across GSK's global network.

We encourage you to apply if you are passionate about driving continuous improvement, empowering teams, and making a meaningful impact. Join us in our mission to get ahead of disease together.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary 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 purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we're committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

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