Blackfield Associates
Associate Director of Production
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Associate Director of Production – GMP Operations
We are seeking an experienced Associate Director of Production – GMP Operations to provide leadership across multiple manufacturing areas and value streams within a complex pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. This is a high-profile role with end-to-end responsibility for manufacturing performance, ensuring the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of GMP operations while supporting continued growth and operational excellence.
Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will lead multi-disciplinary teams and play a key role in shaping manufacturing strategy, driving continuous improvement, maintaining inspection readiness, and delivering operational performance against safety, quality, cost, delivery, and people objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and promote a strong EHS and GMP culture across multiple manufacturing areas.
- Ensure manufacturing operations consistently meet regulatory, quality, and safety requirements.
- Take ownership of major deviations, CAPAs, change controls, and complaints, ensuring effective investigation and resolution.
- Deliver production schedules while meeting productivity targets, budget requirements, and customer commitments.
- Develop and execute manufacturing strategies aligned with wider business objectives and growth plans.
- Drive performance through KPI ownership, continuous improvement initiatives, and operational excellence programmes.
- Provide leadership across Quality, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Development, and Project Management functions.
- Support new product introductions, technology transfers, scale-up activities, and capital investment projects.
- Lead customer audits, regulatory inspections, and senior stakeholder engagements.
- Build leadership capability through talent development, succession planning, recruitment, and performance management.
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To be successful in this role, you will bring:
- A degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Significant experience leading GMP manufacturing operations within the pharmaceutical sector.
- Proven leadership experience managing teams in a regulated manufacturing environment.
- Strong knowledge of GMP, quality systems, deviations, CAPAs, change control, and audit readiness.
- Experience engaging with clients and presenting manufacturing performance and quality-related topics to senior stakeholders.
- Excellent leadership, communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of ERP, MES, and electronic quality management systems would be advantageous.
- Experience in continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean Six Sigma is highly desirable.
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