VP GMP Clinical Manufacturing Operations

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Position Summary
As VP, Global GMP Clinical Manufacturing Operations, you will lead the Medicines Global Clinical Manufacturing Operations function, ensuring the on time scale-up, manufacture, and supply of high-quality, fit-for-purpose, GMP-compliant products for clinical trials in a disciplined and compliant environment. You will play a critical role in ensuring patient safety, clinical data integrity, and delivery of R&D objectives.

This is a significant leadership role in delivering R&D portfolio milestones by ensuring all clinical trials are supported seamlessly and on time, and that Drug Substance and Drug Product multi-modality processes are developed and successfully transferred to GSC and/or external manufacturing partners.

You will be responsible for driving innovation and modernisation across GMP Manufacturing Operations, building on a strong foundation of operational excellence while ensuring the function remains positioned to support the evolving needs of the R&D portfolio.

Reporting to the SVP, Global Clinical Manufacturing and Supply Chain (CMSC) within DDS, you will serve as a member of the CMSC Leadership Team.

You will work closely with senior leaders across DDS, GSC, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, and Technical functions to ensure effective delivery of clinical supply requirements across the R&D portfolio. You will also represent DDS and CMSC in senior cross-functional, governance, and external forums as required.

You will provide leadership across six manufacturing locations:

• UK (Ware)
• USA (Upper Merion 38, Upper Merion 29, Marietta)
• Italy (Parma)
• Singapore (Jurong)

Your organization will be responsible for:

• Drug Substance pilot plant operations
• Drug Product pilot plant operations (OSD and Steriles)
• Manufacturing automation
• Oversight of major capital projects, including the Marietta Steriles Facility, UM Biologics Flex Factory, and Jurong Oligonucleotides Facility

Key Responsibilities:

• Line leadership of global department of ca 300 scientists, engineering, process technicians and manufacturing experts across 6 sites across 4 countries: including 6 nodes/ Pilot Plants, and a total budget of >£100M.
• Leading the global medicines GMP Operations; accountable for the on time scale up, manufacture and supply to R&D GSK sponsored clinical trials, delivering high quality, GMP compliant drug substance, drug product across all modalities according to R&D objectives and compliance with all internal and external regulations and policies governing clinical supply chain.
• Accountability for the implementation of the functional strategy including modernisation and delivery of the optimised operation ready to support with flexibility the cross-modality R&D Portfolio.
• Driving the comprehensive modernization/digitalisation programme as part of deployment of CMC Digital Strategy & CMC Acceleration goals.
• Oversight and expert input into the design and building of the new GMP pilot plants being built at Marietta and UM Flex factory (major capital projects)
• Monitoring the external CMO landscape and assess advances in manufacturing technologies to identify opportunities to strengthen the competitiveness of internal manufacturing operations.
• Accountability for delivering technical investment proposals with clear recommendations to relevant R&D and / or CMC Governance Board(s); leading and influencing direction at senior forums.
• Regularly reviewing and implementing technologies and ways of working to identify improvements in quality, and efficiency ensuring the clear investment plans for manufacturing technologies across the polit plant network in alignment with partners in GSC; and/or external providers.
• Leader of leaders embracing and drives inclusion to create a modern and dynamic working environment across the global function, where people thrive.
• Developing and implementing a strategic work force plan and a talented and diverse succession pool that is aligned to future needs, reflecting a diverse and highly skilled workforce, and incorporating external capability/collaborations.
• Measuring performance and driving a customer focused, metrics driven, performance management system.

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