Document Editor Team Leader

Location: Slough

The role:

As the Document Editor Team Leader, you will lead and develop a team of technical documentation specialists responsible for the creation, editing, review, approval, and delivery of GMP documentation that supports manufacturing operations and wider site activities. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will oversee documentation processes from MSAT through to GMP manufacturing, ensuring compliance, quality, and adherence to operational timelines. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders and customers, you will drive process excellence through effective planning, performance tracking, problem-solving, and continuous improvement initiatives. In addition to managing day-to-day team activities, you will act as a coach, mentor, and subject matter expert, providing guidance, training, and support to develop team capability while fostering strong collaboration across the business.

This is a fully site-based role. Working together in person supports close, real-time collaboration and the technical precision needed to manufacture medicines to the highest quality and safety standards.

What you will get:

• An agile career and dynamic working culture
• An inclusive and ethical workplace
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance
• A variety of benefits dependant on role and location

The full list of our global benefits can be also found on https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits.

What you will do:

• Lead and manage the Technical Administrative Team, providing direction, coaching, mentoring, and performance management to support individual and team development.
• Ensure the timely and right-first-time (RFT) delivery of GMP documentation, meeting manufacturing and business timelines while maintaining compliance and quality standards.
• Monitor and coordinate document creation activities, proactively engaging with internal and external stakeholders to resolve issues, manage changes, and ensure customer requirements are met.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance on document content, style, formatting standards, document management systems (DMS), documentation procedures, and GMP best practices.
• Drive continuous improvement and strategic documentation initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, efficiency, compliance, and overall documentation performance.
• Troubleshoot documentation and process-related issues, leading root cause investigations and collaborating across functions to develop and implement effective solutions.
• Maintain compliance and capability within the team, ensuring training requirements are met, documentation standards are upheld, and team members are equipped to support evolving business needs.