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Steriles Operations Support Manager - Multiple Positions Available
Manufacturing Operations Support Lead
Whatever we achieve together is nothing short of bold ambition. We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance with a global network of 37 manufacturing and vaccine production sites. In 2024 alone, we delivered:
- 1.7 billion packs of medicines
- 409 million vaccine doses
Our supply chain is the backbone of innovation—carrying new treatments to patients swiftly, efficiently, and safely. To continue this journey, we’re pushing beyond traditional boundaries by integrating advanced manufacturing technologies—such as robotics, digital solutions, and AI—to accelerate product development.
We’re seeking a driving force to lead operational support for a regarded-manufacturing value stream in a highly regulated environment.
About the Role
This confident, collaborative, and results-driven role will involve:
- Operational execution: Leading daily operations to ensure timely production while maintaining safety and compliance.
- Multidisciplinary alignment: Partnering with quality, engineering, and technical teams to balance speed, quality, and scale.
- Improvement leadership: Driving continuous improvement, project management, and change initiatives.
- Cultural champion: Upholding our principles of honesty, accountability, and patient focus while fostering a culture of leadership development.
It’s a key position with real impact, career prospects, and the chance to contribute to our mission: mapping a healthier future for 2.5 billion people through compelling science, technology, and courageous leadership.
Responsibilities
A take-away imperative for this role is that you will own and shape your career.
Key activities encompass:
- Overseeing day-to-day production delivery, harmonising schedules with quality and safety targets.
- Serving as the central operations point of contact for cross-functional projects.
- Ensuring preparatory readiness before internal/ external audits and inspections.
- Maintaining production continuity and documenting value-stream operating criteria.
- Coaching frontline teams and managers to sustain operational excellence via localised change.
- Sourcing and delivering stabilising/measurable innovation across key areas.
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Why You?
Core Requirements
We are hiring individuals with these must-have experience and qualities:
- Regulated manufacturing/ packaging encountered experience (quality and safety retention critical).
- Hands-on operational delivery via day-to-day management within fields like production, supply chain or support system.
- Proven track record in deconstructing complexity to advance operational change.
- Outstanding quality and safety mindset, knowledgeable in regulatory standards for medicine/ vaccine manufacturing.
- Collaborative skills with ability to connect, inform and steer diverse teams across functions.
- Evidence of establishing eligibility under UK right-to-work laws.
Preferred Plus Points
- Formal degrees or credentials in engineering, applied science or manufacturing.
- Technical skills in manufacturing execution systems (e.g., SAP).
- Regulatory and operational experience managing site audits, deviations, or controls.
- A background in people coaching/ management, particularly advocating changes beyond direct reports.
- Lean-SSigma, six-sigma, and/or other operational excellence methodologies’ knowledge.
- Capacity/ production planning/prioritisation persuasion to aligned value streams.
Working Arrangement
This is a site-role requiring any day’s on-call attention at GlaxoSmithKline’s Solid untenures.
The role demands interaction across functional dependencies (e.g., quality and engineering safety protocols), with arms vis-à-vis external or latent audit obligations.
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What We Offer
This is more than a job—it’s purpose. At GSK, you will lead and learn in an environment fostering growth.
- Join a team committed to innovation that advances public health.
- Act on projects transforming daily lives.
- Equip yourself with expertise—with career support setting ambition on a new high.
- Stay oriented around our core purpose: help teams and colleagues thrive by cutting-edge culture.
Why GSK?
We’re a global pharmaceutical pioneer: blending science, technology, and vision to tackle disease. Imagine shaping health for 2.5 billion people across the next decade with our ambitious, scalable solutions.
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Our dedication Specialising in five high-priority disease categories—respiratory, oncology, immunology/ inflammation, HIV and infectious diseases—we aim to outmanoeuvre and contain threats before they become crises.
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People. Strategy. Growth. GSK is a place where courage equals results. Where your talent is nourished and, in return, contributes to bold, impactful ambition.
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Get Ahead Together with GSK. This isn’t just about tackling diseases—it’s about establishing places where all thrive. A culture of accountability, innovation, and decency bridges to higher-meaning, happier-skilled work.
GlaxoSmithKline adheres to a financial inclusion strategy, muting biases across race, gender, sexual orientation, generational inclusion, neurodiversity or economic background. We promote anonymity in hiring determinations.
Our team embraces agile work culture guidelines, designing flexibility tailored around your priorities.
For solutions, adaptions or considerations regarding the recruitment process, contact
UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com
The moment puts greatness within your reach. We can’t wait to hear how scientific precision, hustle, and humility will unite at GSK.*
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