Are looking for a process and validation leadership role that allows you to leverage your technical expertise to drive quality assurance and compliance in a highly technical manufacturing environment?  If so, this MSAT Team Lead role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As an MSAT Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of Process and Validation Specialists/SME’s to manage and deliver the product and project portfolio, including new product introduction and complex changes to existing products, processes and equipment technologies, to meet business demands.

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

• Develop, motivate, focus, care and lead a highly competent team of Process and Validation Specialists/SME’s to deliver projects, discharge risks, implement complex changes and to maintain standards and knowledge management systems for the site.
• Feeding into the sites Strategic Workforce Planning, through strong succession planning & performance management.
• To operate in line with GSKs leadership expectations & promote correct behaviors & ways of working to their team & other employees.
• Use Workday and the supporting 70:20:10 framework to agree development plans for team members.
• Partner with team members to support development plans to increase and sustain capability within the MSAT team (ensure a competent skill base, technical mastery and strong succession plans).
• Recruit staff as required in order to deliver projects per timelines.
• Adhering to the performance management system, holding regular structured performance meetings with all employees in their reporting line, to review development items, recognize success & offer support where required. It will be expected to manage underperformance in a reasonable time frame in line with the GSK performance management policy in a fair & concise way, with an ultimate aim to improve their overall performance.
• Align themselves & their teams to site priorities, business objectives through effective team leadership & stakeholder management.
• Maintain individual and staff compliance with all related policies and procedures (including GMP; Environmental, Health & Safety; and QMS), ensuring that all work is performed and documented to a standard that is acceptable to both internal and external reviewers.
• Industrialize technical transfer of commercial products within Global Supply Chain and other third-party sites as applicable. Key focus areas are risk management, technical due diligence and embedding quality and MSAT capabilities to ensure robust, cost-effective manufacturing processes.
• Acquire, maintain and manage product and process knowledge throughout the product lifecycle.
• Acquire, maintain and manage MSAT standards throughout the product lifecycle and ensure they are adhered to.
• Ensure appropriate systems to track, trend and analyze product and process data are in place in use and applied to monitor product/process performance and drive improvement.
• Approve and resource MSAT aspects of planned changes for new and commercial products through effective risk management processes and MSAT leadership for complex issues (e.g. investigations).
• Responsible for providing technical leadership into complex product performance investigations & lead the introduction of highly capable new process technologies & improvement of process capability of existing unit processes.
• Ensure day to day technical issues are resolved urgently to minimize impact on project(s)/product performance or reject/waste levels. 
• Actively facilitate the improvement of product and process capability across the supply chain, in order to drive improved quality performance, yield, reduction of waste due to the cost of poor quality and optimized cost of goods.

 Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Minimum 10 years’ experience with BS in vaccine pharmaceutical process experience, preferably a multinational one.

OR

• Minimum 5 years’ experience with PhD in vaccine pharmaceutical process experience, preferably a multinational one.
• Minimum 5 years' demonstrated experience in the Vaccine Pharmaceutical industry in leading the technical aspects of the Product Lifecycle including Scale Up, Technology Transfers, Technical Risk Assessments, Product Control Strategies, Process Capability/Robustness, QbD, Process/Cleaning validation, Contamination Control and change control.

Preferred Qualifications: