Site GPS Lead

GSK

3d • $156,750 - $261,250 • Onsite

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. This role is an exciting opportunity to lead the deployment of the GSK Production System (GPS) at one of our key manufacturing sites in the United States. You will play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement, building capability, and embedding a culture of operational excellence across the site. As a member of the site leadership team, you will collaborate with diverse teams to deliver meaningful impact on safety, quality, service, cost, and people. This position offers the chance to make a tangible difference, develop leadership skills, and contribute to GSK’s mission of uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of operational excellence experience within a regulated industry

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or additional certifications in engineering, manufacturing, or business management.
• Black Belt certification in Lean or Six Sigma.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical industry.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and project management tools.
• Broad experience across manufacturing functions, such as production, engineering, quality, logistics, and safety.
• Proven ability to lead transformational projects and manage change effectively.

Responsibilities

• Ensure site critical projects and programs, which encompasses complex business, technical, and business change projects, have clear scope, governance, prioritization, resource management, risk management, business change management and financial controls in place to provide a smooth transition from project to fully supported customer hand-over.
• Lead initiatives across the organization in support of business strategy and to improve ways of working.
• Coach and train all the Site personnel on GSK Production System (GPS/OE) tools and principles to develop the skills and capabilities.
• Lead site GPS maturity improvement plan.
• Interface and partner with the GSK central teams and other sites to contribute, share and leverage best practice Program Management and GPS as appropriate.
• Ensure robust and consistent Project Management Office (PMO) processes exist in order to deliver clear scope, governance, prioritization, resource management, risk management and financial controls are in place to provide a smooth transition from project to fully supported customer hand-over.
• Work with Site Director and Site Leadership team to identify, agree and deploy GPS priorities, Strategy Deployment 3-year plan and targets for following year and critical projects across site, including those to be led by GPS and PMO team.
• Accountable for day-to-day consistency of deployment of GPS as well as all key improvement activities across site and supporting value streams.
• Track progress of the site GPS deployment roadmap and self-assessment of site maturity level.
• Manage and implement multiple large and complex projects, develop program plans and timelines, make staffing decisions based on assessment of team members' skills and workloads as well as identify obstacles.
• Ensure PMO team delivers: Design and execution of project plans and budgets: (1) On time and on budget delivery of projects, including business change management plan (2) Compliance with regulatory requirements, GSK policies and standards (3) Robust risk management; including Business Continuity Plans: Establishing strong relationships across project teams, functions and stakeholders for delivery and execution of projects (4) Prepare contingency and recovery plans if delays or overruns are anticipated, engaging stakeholders through effective governance processes

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees