Site Name: UK - London - Brentford
Posted Date: Sep 9 2022
We make and supply medicines and vaccines all around the globe and our teams own every production stage, from creating quality products at our manufacturing sites to designing effective supply forecasting and regulatory inspections; all powered by digital, data and analytics. We operate at impressive scale, producing over 1.7 billion packs of medicine and 767 million vaccine doses in 2021.
We continue to modernise, so we can launch even more new products at speed whilst turbo-charging delivery across our entire portfolio through our relentless focus on quality, safety, and service. The way we work will change. For some, the shift in technology and products will be revolutionary. Our R&D pipeline demands a new kind of supply chain, and we need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of automation and robotics so we can work smarter together.
Packaging Technology Specialist
As a Packaging Technology Specialist, you will be heavily involved with new product launch and introduction working regionally across several third-party packaging sites. You will gain experience of product life cycle changes, from initial launch to supply chain optimization, supporting a key assets for GSK. You will interact with internal and external stakeholders cross functionally, from suppliers to internal engineering and quality departments.
This role can be based at the following locations GSK House, Barnard Castle, Aranda, Evreux, Poznan, Durham - US, and Zebulon.
There is some flexibility of remote working and there may be a small amount of travel required.
Job Purpose
Artwork and Packaging Services (APS) exists Globally to support continuity of packaging supply for Rx products. The Packaging Operations team within APS is responsible for the interfacing with sites, CMOs, procurement, suppliers, and Packaging Project Managers (PPM's) to deliver pack design and specification service for primary, secondary and tertiary packaging
In this role you will...
- Provide technical leadership and project management for specific pack changes for Sites across multiple regions
- Provide packaging technology support to NPIs and Major Pack Changes lead by PPM's to ensure project milestones are met
- Provide packaging technical expertise and support RCAs and TRAs across multiple regions
- Provide packaging development and design of primary, secondary, tertiary and distribution packs. This includes:-
- Agreeing pack design brief with customer
- Evaluation of pack design options which meet the requirements of Commercial, Regulatory, product protection and suitability for manufacturing
- Working with suppliers to design and evaluate individual packaging components, evaluating cost and sustainability savings where achievable.
- Evaluation of suitability of designs for production at Sites including support to Sites for defining line trial content
- Defining packaging functional testing to confirm design suitability (including component interaction, Child Resistance, distribution, performance)
- Technical review of data related to packaging design including the inputs in technical specifications and drawings and developing packaging component standards
- Ensuring pack designs meet PSC (Pharma Supply Chain) / GSK standards
- Provide technical expertise in packaging components, material, conversion process, printing technique and emerging technology to improve efficiencies, reduce complexity, reduce cost and improve value of established products as required. SME at least one component type and ability to mentor peers to build capability for specific skills.
- Set Direction across the business regarding Packaging ways of working, standard workflow, stakeholders engagement and documentation style (around component impact or influence).
- Provide Packaging Technical leadership and advice to the Business Packaging and Production Groups for primary and secondary packaging operations (validation, process equipment, test equipment, components and machine trials) to ensure robust, consistent processes qualified to GSK/External standards.
- Provide Packaging Technical expertise for Procurement groups for the evaluation of new and alternative packaging component suppliers and implementation of changes to the supply base
- Provide Packaging Technical expertise to Supplier Quality / CMO for the evaluation of Supplier Change Proposals for packaging components
- Provide APS point contact to Sites to ensure regular communication on performance, pack change status and potential new service requests
- Identify improvement opportunities with respect to packaging components, equipments and processes as per PSC / GSK standards
- Creation of components and BOM at systems on site behalf, when applicable.
Closing Date for Applications: Friday 23rd September 2022
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Why you?
Basic Qualifications
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
- Significant experience in the pharmaceutical packaging field related to packaging equipment, pack development and packaging operational activities across multiple dose forms e.g. solid orals, liquids, derma etc
- Knowledge/Expertise of packaging materials, components, suppliers, equipment, legislation, and technologies with the ability to apply this knowledge to satisfy project goals within the supply chain.
- Demonstrate the right behaviours of working across boundaries and ability to perform in a cross functional team environment
Preferred Qualifications
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Graduate in Packaging, Science, Pharmacy, Engineering
- Masters / Post Graduate Diploma in Packaging Technology with desired level of experience
- Pharmaceutical project management experience would be advantageous
Why GSK?
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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
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 place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.
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Annual Report 2021
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. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.
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).
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