Site Name: UK - Hertfordshire - Ware
Posted Date: Apr 19 2023
The Warehouse team at GSK’s Ware Manufacturing site is responsible for performing all tasks associated with the movement of materials into, within and onwards from the Ware Manufacturing site.
Reporting directly to the site’s Logistics Director; you will be accountable for the Warehouse team, which is responsible for receipt and storage of materials from vendors, issue of materials to product streams, and despatch of products to freight forwarders for distribution to customers. As the Operations Manager you will operate the Warehouse and additional 3PL Warehouses within agreed budget levels, ensuring that there is a 'Quality' and 'Environment, Health & Safety' (EHS) culture amongst the wider team, whilst ensuring that the Warehouse is compliant and audit ready.
Further responsibilities include ensuring that staff have the appropriate skills for running the business and maintaining strategic alignment of the Warehouse to support future state and change projects (for Warehousing, Distribution and Supply Chain).
Key Responsibilities:
- Development and delivery of the Warehouse Strategy aligned to the Ware manufacturing site.
- Effective budgetary control against agreed targets (budget of c£ 4.3 million and staff levels of circa 50+ people). Support product streams to the agreed lead-times for movement of materials (approx. 100,000 picks per annum).
- Oversight of Customer orders despatched ex-site to plan, with correct paperwork and in a compliant manner.
- Ensure activities support SRM projections and metrics (to track performance and address abnormalities).
- Chair governance meetings covering Performance, People, Quality and EHS (including monitoring trends and agreeing action plans to address any slippage) internal Warehouse. Additionally govern external 3PL’s covering Performance, People, Quality and EHS as well as KPI metrics outlined in the SLA’s (Service Level Agreements) and any 3PL contractual agreements.
- Support all audits. Promote and encourage input/development of GSK Quality Management System. Ensure that GMP, Quality and EHS standards are maintained.
- Supporting and developing direct reports (as a coach or mentor), including allocating important projects and challenging responsibilities for development purposes.
- Ensure all warehouse staff are given regular appraisals and 1:1s to actively manage Performance and GSK Expectations whilst enabling them to receive the appropriate training & development for their role
- Accountable for the implementation of site changes/initiatives within own team. Drive appropriate system and operational changes and manage/propose process improvements. Provide resource as required to cross functional projects within the value stream.
Please Note: The Warehouse is subject to Known-Consignor status and is subject to stringent external audits. It is therefore a requirement of pre-employment screening for the successful applicant to have references that date back 5 years.
About You:
This role would suit a self-motivated person who has management experience obtained from working in a cross-functional, global supply organisation. You will be resilient and calm under pressure, with strong people skills and a proven ability to influence people to achieve and drive performance. You will have a strong continuous improvement mindset.
About Ware Manufacturing Site:
Medicines at Ware are presented as either Respiratory devices or in Oral Solid Dose form. The site holds a unique position in our network as the only site responsible for launching the company’s pipeline of new medicines in these dose forms, many of which are life-saving medicines. A series of investments in new state-of-the-art equipment are being made that will support the delivery of a record number of new products.
APPLICATION CLOSING DATE – Wednesday 3rd of May 2023 (COB).
Basic Qualifications:
Degree in relevant discipline (eg; Science, Logistics, or Industry)
Relevant manufacturing / logistics / warehouse experience (eg; managing a team in complex highly-regulated industry)
About GSK:
GSK has changed. In July 2022, we demerged our world-leading consumer healthcare business, Haleon. We are now a fully focused biopharma company. We prioritise innovation in vaccines and specialty medicines, maximising the increasing opportunities to prevent and treat disease. At the heart of this is our R&D focus on the science of the immune system, human genetics and advanced technologies, and our world-leading capabilities in vaccines and medicines development. For more information on GSK please refer to our website: www.gsk.com
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 positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.
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