Operational Excellence Lead (Associate Director)

Here at GSK, 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 drive meaningful change and continuous improvement across our operations. You'll lead initiatives that enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and foster a culture of operational excellence. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll identify opportunities, implement solutions, and measure impact. We're looking for someone who is proactive, detail-oriented, and passionate about making a difference.

The Operational Excellence Lead is accountable for the site operations continuous improvement program that is aligned to the GSK Production System to deliver the business strategy and improve business performance across the scorecard (safety, quality, service, cost, and people).

As a key member of the GPS team the Sr. GPS Practitioner is responsible for:

• Deployment of GPS with a team of GPS practitioners to achieve site capability goals for GPS, measure and track improvement plans.
• Business Partner to Manufacturing Science and Technology Team, Production, Quality, Engineering, Supply Chain and support functions to streamline and deliver functional
• milestones and support Rapid Response problem resolution.
• Establishing and executing the Site GPS plan and management of KPIs in PPM including GPS Maturity
• Add value to patients and business by driving a zero-waste value stream (Make, Test, Ship) and making efficiencies, including the use of digital, data and analytics tools (e.g.
• Power BI) in conjunction with Lean practices.

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

• Role model GPS skills and lean leadership behaviors and be a subject matter expert in GPS and Six Sigma. Establish and lead the site continuous improvement program aligned to OneGPS standards.
• Potential to lead other G7 Practitioners and support coaching and development of the team.
• Collaborate with the GPS Lead, Site Director and SLT to identify and agree on the GPS implementation in alignment with the site strategy deployment. Drive the site strategy process aligned to Value Stream/Waste mapping.
• Partner with GPS Lead to build and maintain GPS expertise within the Functional Group (Transformation Team)
• Lead day to day deployment of the GPS as well as all related improvement activities at site level (business impact on safety, quality, supply, cost, and people). Must be active participant in Process Performance Management of assigned value stream
• Support SLT in the identification of financial and non-financial benefits associated with GPS implementation. Active member of the site Strategy Deployment team.
• Ensure a robust GPS system is in place and track progress of the site GPS deployment roadmap and self-assess the site GPS maturity level. Report on all required data to central teams as required.
• Teach, train, mentor, coach at all site levels in GPS and Lean methodologies. Must be active in problem solving and Gemba daily.
• Drive and develop the capability of all leaders to lead and own their continuous improvement plan and champion CI activities.
• Ensure consistency of progress across the site and network by sharing and adopting lessons learned.
• Be an active member of the Regional GPS network including regular performance reporting and sharing of best practices; Benchmarking site performance vs other sites / companies to set appropriate Operational Performance ambition.

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

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Black belt certification required.
• 5+ years of manufacturing and/or supply chain experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Experience in running a department, proven people skills to drive performance. Continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to adapt to site requirements.
• Biologics experience preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership in change and transformation.

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The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $107,400 to $179,000 taking into account a number of factors including work location within the US market, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

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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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