Continuous Improvement Manager / GPS Practitioner

Site Name: UK – County Durham – Barnard Castle Posted Date: Jun 6 2025 The Barnard Castle site’s GPS Practitioner role exists to deploy and embed the GPS across the site to deliver the business strategy and to improve business performance (across quality, safety, service, cost, and innovation). The positions sits within the Global Supply Chain (GSC) business, which makes and supplies our pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical products around the globe. The GSC organisation is involved with every production stage from the infrastructure of the manufacturing sites, supply forecasting, regulatory inspections, and product quality. Key Responsibilities (include); As a key member of the site team, reporting into the Site GPS Lead, you will be responsible for: Support day-to-day deployment of the GPS and performance improvement activities at site. Deliver according to the GPS implementation approach / road map (agreed with the Site Director, Regional GPS lead and Site GPS lead). Support continuous capability development of self and others, developed by the GPS Core team. Actively role modelling GPS skills and behaviours. Support/ensure consistency of progress and deployment. Coach Site team leaders and operators to develop sustain continuous improvement mindsets and behaviours. Provide expert advice on the GPS basics to the Site based on a in depth understanding of GPS. About You: You will have a track-record of delivery within the Manufacturing / Engineering / Quality / Supply Chain space, with demonstrated experience in the use of Lean Sigma tools. Ideally you will be degree-educated with strong knowledge / experience obtained from working within a highly-regulated environment. As this role is multi-faceted and collaborates with a wide variety of on-site (and above-site) production, operational and support function teams, you will also be self-motivated with strong interpersonal and influencing skills (at all levels of the organization). You will also be resilient and calm with a complete focus on providing solutions. A strong continuous-improvement mindset and a track-record of delivering improvement initiatives and culture change (resulting in financial and non-financial benefit as well as behavioral change) is required. About Barnard Castle: GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site and has invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art, bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases, and as a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products, the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually. CLOSING DATE for applications: Friday 20th June (COB) Basic Qualifications: Degree-qualified (or strong relevant experience) in suitable subject (eg; technical, science or engineering). 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