Director of Large Scale Manufacturing

Director of Large Scale Manufacturing

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. Are you ready to lead and inspire a team in a large-scale manufacturing environment? As Director of Large Scale Manufacturing, you will play a pivotal role in driving operational excellence, ensuring safety and quality, and delivering on production goals. You will collaborate across teams to optimize processes, foster a culture of inclusion, and contribute to GSK's mission of getting ahead of disease together. This is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while growing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.

As a member for the Site Leadership Team, the Director of Large Scale Manufacturing has full accountability for personnel and operations related to production in a designated Value Stream at the Rockville site. This role is to help develop and drive the overall Site business strategy in line with GSK and B&D Strategy objectives. In this role, you will be accountable for ensuring the delivery of business targets while building capability and culture that aligns to GSK values and never losing sight of safety, quality and compliance as foundations to being able to run our business.

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

• Accountable for product quality, employee safety, cGMP compliance, OSHA compliance and consistently achieving performance goals to successfully meet current and future market demand.
• Develop a diverse and inclusive culture that can improve performance in safety and quality while delivering improvements in service and cost.
• Utilize teamwork across the Site Leadership Team to align resources and set priorities to deliver a balanced scorecard.
• Set courageous goals and targets to move to and maintain top quartile performance in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
• Utilize teamwork across GSK and GSC central functions to align business objectives and priorities to deliver GSK strategic priorities and ensure team members are set up to succeed.
• Develop GPS capability within the Value Stream to accelerate delivery of performance goals.
• Utilize teamwork across GSC strategy organization and GSK commercial partners to develop targeted product cost of goods with accountability to achieve COGs targets.
• Make courageous decisions in developing team members to build a robust succession pipeline for the Value Stream, Site and GSK.
• Utilize teamwork across GSC to align ways of working through systems, process and equipment in a standardized manner that maximizes performance and compliance.
• Accountable for the P&L of the Value Stream for short mid-term budget setting and delivery in accordance with the supply chain planning process. Accountable for the improvement of flow through the value stream that maximizes efficiency and minimizes working capital in shortest appropriate door to door lead time.

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

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

This role is on-site and based in Rockville, MD. We encourage you to apply if you are passionate about leading teams, driving operational excellence, and making a difference in the lives of patients worldwide. Join us and be part of a team that's united by a shared purpose and inspired to achieve more together.

The US annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $161,700 to $269,500. The US salary ranges take 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. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

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

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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