Jobs in King of Prussia, PA

About the role

As VP, Global GMP Clinical Manufacturing Operations, you will lead the Medicines Global Clinical Manufacturing Operations function, ensuring the on time scale-up, manufacture, and supply of high-quality, fit-for-purpose, GMP-compliant products for clinical trials in a disciplined and compliant environment. You will play a critical role in ensuring patient safety, clinical data integrity, and delivery of R&D objectives. This is a significant leadership role in delivering R&D portfolio milestones by ensuring all clinical trials are supported seamlessly and on time, and that Drug Substance and Drug Product multi-modality processes are developed and successfully transferred to GSC and/or external manufacturing partners. You will be responsible for driving innovation and modernisation across GMP Manufacturing Operations, building on a strong foundation of operational excellence while ensuring the function remains positioned to support the evolving needs of the R&D portfolio. Reporting to the SVP, Global Clinical Manufacturing and Supply Chain (CMSC) within DDS, you will serve as a member of the CMSC Leadership Team. You will work closely with senior leaders across DDS, GSC, Finance, Quality, Regulatory, and Technical functions to ensure effective delivery of clinical supply requirements across the R&D portfolio. You will also represent DDS and CMSC in senior cross-functional, governance, and external forums as required.

What you'll bring

• Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
• 10+ years experience in large pharmaceutical or biotechnology, including experience leading GMP manufacturing operations
• Experience in cross-modality drug development/manufacturing across all CMC activities
• Experience of highly regulated GMP processes necessary to develop a medicine/vaccine ready for commercial release and supply to the clinic
• Oversight/experience of multi-year capital investment projects (over £100M)
• Experience leading organisational change initiatives and/or technology deployment programmes.
• In addition to the above, you will stand out if you bring the following:
• PhD in Engineering or a related scientific discipline.
• Experience leading leaders within a complex matrix organisation, including influencing at senior level meetings, governance boards and executive forums
• Experience across multiple pharmaceutical modalities
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively and influence key stakeholder at all levels, both internally and externally
• Expansive and visionary thinker, with demonstrated ability to develop strategic partnerships

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