Accelerator Lead at GSK in Durham, NC

GSK has an ambitious strategy to get ahead of disease together and positively impact the lives of over 2.5 billion patients by 2030. There is a rapidly increasing reliance on EM to deliver growth in both established products and externalised New Product Introduction. With the increased impact EM will have on GSK's competitive performance, ability to deliver our growth ambition and reputation, there is a need to drive benchmark level performance across balanced scorecard KPIs for the EM organisation.

The Accelerator Lead will lead and drive sustainable step change improvement every 16 weeks applying the Continuous Improvement Culture & Mindset and Problem Solving GPS standards, tools and techniques. The role holder will have a strong understanding and experience of the External Manufacturing organisation, processes and systems, with wider organisation and E2E process knowledge, relationships and connections. Priority accelerator focus areas will be defined by the EM Leadership Team according to the top problem business needs and the role holder will define, lead and execute improvement plan activities to deliver measurable and sustained improvements.

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.

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In this role you will

Act as an active leader for the organisation, working closely with the EM Leadership Team and PQTS+ members at all levels to define, lead, co-ordinate and execute clear improvement goals for each accelerator using the GPS standard. The improvement must be sufficient to achieve a top line improvement in one or more key metrics.
Lead and coach waste mapping across EM
Ensure thorough stakeholder engagement and change management methodology is applied before, during and after each accelerator – including effective EM communication strongly linked to the EM annual Programs as defined by the Strategy Deployment Process.
People development and coaching across External Manufacturing and for those involved in accelerator delivery.
Prepare, manage and execute (with co-ordination of PQTS+ support as required) a detailed improvement plan for each accelerator to deliver goal translation objectives.
Implement appropriate daily and weekly governance to ensure each accelerator is progressing as per plan with required PQTS+ support clearly defined in addition to tracking plan delivery.
Effectively manage own workload to deliver specific improvement plan activities as well as coordinating and leading the overall accelerator.
Build strong relationships and credibility across all levels of the External Manufacturing PQTS+ organisation and wider connections to not only support effective delivery of accelerators but also contribute towards the EM engagement score increase by delivering improvements for the organisation and building a thriving team environment.
Support building CI Culture & Mindset and Problem Solving and change management capabilities, plus
Digital Data and Analytics awareness across the EM PQTS+ organisation.
Support and implement a CI knowledge sharing and priority improvements system/process/governance in collaboration with the CI Champions and the GPS team

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

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

BSc or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Operations, CI
Demonstrated knowledge of External Manufacturing operations and processes
Leadership experience (either direct or indirect matrix management)
People and capability development experience
Extensive experience in change management and CI
Knowledge of applicable manufacturing and packaging processes including Solid, Liquid, Cream, Steriles, Antibiotics and Devices and and/or learning agility
Experience with EM systems, data and KPIs
Financial acumen and/or learning agility – understanding of P&L and improving cost
Understanding and experience of OTIF, inventory, flow, waste reduction, quality improvement, data analytics

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

BSc or equivalent experience and additional relevant qualification

Closing Date for Applications – 14th January 2025 (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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).

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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