Director of Large Scale Manufacturing

GlaxoSmithKline • Rockville, MD

89d • $161,700 - $269,500

About The Position

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 of 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science - biological/ chemical science or any disciple of engineering
• 10+ years of experience in biopharma/ pharmaceutical clinical and/or commercial manufacturing industry
• Leading through others at a GMP drug substance biopharma factory/ site
• Fermentation/ cell culture, purification, buffer/ media prep, supply chain, manufacturing strategy, equipment commissioning/ validation and change management, process validation, product registration, and/or product lifecycle management

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in engineering, science, or business administration.
• Experience in large-scale manufacturing environments.
• Strong quality, compliance, and safety orientation with experience interfacing with regulatory agencies.
• Excellent leadership skills including motivating a large workforce, driving productivity improvement, and developing people to meet future needs.
• Outstanding cross-functional collaboration and influencing skills with an emphasis on teamwork and business results.
• Role modelling problem solving skills and a relentless continuous improvement mindset.
• Strategic agility, organizational savvy, and business acumen to deliver near-term objectives and long-term goals.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Benefits

• Health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• Retirement benefits
• Paid holidays
• Vacation
• Paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• Annual bonus
• Eligibility to participate in share based long term incentive program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree