Orals Team Leader – Tablet Packaging (2 Shift – Early and Late Shift)

Closing Date for Applications – 26th February (COB)

This is a site-based role at Worthing.

The Orals Tablet Packaging Team Leader has responsibility for the packaging and supporting processes and associated decisions to ensure delivery of customer service and schedule adherence whilst maintaining quality and safety standards for the area of their responsibility.

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practises; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

Discover more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK on our webpage Life at GSK | GSK

In this role you will:

• Ensure that production operations are resourced and managed to deliver customer service and production schedule requirements within the budget control.
• Ensure the production facility is effectively run, meeting all of the required GMP, Safety & regulatory standards.
• Management of the production and appropriate teams to include training and development, resource management and control, performance reviews, performance management, employee reward and recognition.
• Responsible for developing short and long term plans to support delivery of the Value Stream / Function strategy and vision in the form of project activity, solutions and improvements to processes and ways of working.
• Ensure all aspects of housekeeping in the workplace are maintained, ensuring environment is safe and compliant.
• Undertake root cause analysis using OE tools and implement preventative actions.

Why you?

Qualifications & Skills:

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

• Degree, A levels or GCSE’s grades A-C (maths and English), internal psychometric metric evaluation for capability.
• Experience working within a production or support role, minimum OE Advocate in Lean Sigma.
• Communication skills at all levels both written and verbal.
• SAP knowledge.
• Knowledge of audit processes, preparation and requirements.
• Knowledge of site HR processes and systems.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

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

• OE foundation understanding (green belt training preferred)
• Access to MERP, Veeva, Deviation and Change Control training

About Worthing Manufacturing Site:

Manufacturing at the Worthing site is for antibiotics.  It is advised that you take this into consideration when deciding to apply for this position.

Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we are open to all talent. In the US, we also adhere to Affirmative Action principles. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class*(*US only).

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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