GSC Strategy Senior Director

Preferred locations: Rockville, MD, Upper Providence, PA, Durham, NC, GSK HQ. Additional locations considered on a case-by-case basis.

Job Purpose:

The GSC Strategy team designs the supply chains to bring world class GSK medicines and vaccines to patients. The Strategy team is responsible for product and network strategy.

This role will drive the development and execution of the analytical network strategy, working with the product/strategy leads and product quality strategy leads to ensure robust QC networks are in place for New Product Introduction (NPI) and commercial supply.

The One Strategy Team has a clear ambition to be "Best in Industry Strategy team" of highly talented people. This role supports the ambition through benchmarking to understand industry standards and best practices, applying insights to enhance our analytical network capability and driving best practise in QC testing within the pharmaceutical and supply chain industries.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and drive the execution of the analytical network strategy across the supply chain, ensuring alignment with GSK quality objectives:

  • Define the QC testing network principles and approach to meet GSK quality objectives.

  • Translate the approved strategy in an operational roadmaps and drive execution against objectives and deadlines.

  • Be a key contributor for decision on major changes for products or network.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional team to integrate analytical testing principles into end-to-end supply chain process.

  • Seek endorsement of the proposed strategy from the relevant GSK governance forums including the Supply Chain Review Board (SCRB).

• Act as the voice of the analytical network in GSC. Work closely with GSC Quality, MSAT, R&D and other key stakeholders to align on Quality goals.

• Act as the single point of contact in GSC Strategy for specific matters linked to analytical network strategy.

• Drive innovation:

  • By identifying and assessing quality control capacity and capabilities necessary to deliver the GSK pipeline.

  • Conduct benchmarking to understand industry standards and best practices, applying insights to enhance our analytical network strategy.

  • Modality understanding and focus on analytical testing strategy for ADCs and Oligos

• Implement metrics and performance management:

  • Establish key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring the success and impact of analytical network strategy initiatives within the global supply chain.

  • Develop and maintain robust reporting mechanisms to communicate progress and areas for improvement to senior leadership.

  • Initiate action to mitigate risks in the analytical network.

• Building capability in the GSC and Strategy team:

  • Fosters a culture of awareness and expertise among team members, providing training and resources to enhance their understanding of quality control testing principles and practices within the GSC Strategy team

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

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

• Bachelor's Degree required with 10 years in pharmaceutical industry

• Experience in quality operations, quality control and/or analytical method development.

• Experience implementing successful initiatives within a global supply chain context.

• Experience with industry quality trends and best practices specific to the pharmaceutical supply chain.

• Industry regulations and compliance requirements knowledge related to pharmaceutical testing required.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

• Master's or PhD degree preferred

Job posting close date: Close of Business, November 24th, 2024. Please save a copy of this job description.

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Why GSK?

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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 organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

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