Supplier Quality Audit Lead

工作地點名稱: UK - Hertfordshire - Ware, UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle
刊登日期: Aug 5 2025

Location and Travel: The chosen candidate can be based at any of GSK's pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in the UK, with a preference for Ware (UK) or Barnard Castle (UK). Please note that this role involves a significant amount of travel across Europe, expected to comprise approximately 30% to 50% of the position's responsibilities.

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We have an exciting opportunity within the Central Supplier Quality Audit and Compliance (SQ A&C) team, supporting the Global Supply Chain globally. The SQ A&C team ensures quality and compliance throughout the product lifecycle by conducting GMP assessments of quality-critical materials and services across GSK's manufacturing network.

The Supplier Quality Audit Lead , reporting to SQ A&C Senior Manager, plays a key role in ensuring GSK's material and service suppliers meet compliance standards with regulatory requirements and GSK expectations.

The role involves planning, executing, and documenting GMP and Quality Systems audits for assigned suppliers, managing supplier action plans to address identified gaps, and maintaining audit data in GSK's supplier management systems. Additionally, the auditor may provide expertise on supplier change controls when needed.

In this role you will

• Performing GMP/Quality System assessments/audits of assigned suppliers; making risk-based recommendation on supplier GMP approval status (including proposals for continued use of suppliers with marginal compliance) and documenting assessments/audits in relevant systems.
• Agreeing appropriate corrective and preventive action (CAPA) plans with suppliers and following up on the completion of CAPAs within agreed timelines.
• Effective communication of assessment outcomes to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring audit-related documentation is effectively communicated and that CAPA-related documents are reviewed and responded to within targeted timelines.
• Maintenance of "auditee" (supplier) profiles in data systems, ensuring that supplier data associated with the supplier assessment and user sites are kept up to date based on currently available information, and supporting change controls from assigned suppliers as needed as per current procedures.
• Collating identified risks and escalating high-risk issues/situations to ensure management and stakeholders understand technical, regulatory, and quality risks, and that appropriate mitigating actions are identified.
• Providing support to GSK sites undergoing regulatory/customer inspections as assigned.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

• Relevant experience (ideally gained from the working in a highly regulated environment like Pharmaceutical Manufacturing).
• Degree in Life Science or other relevant disciplines.
• Knowledge of current GMP requirements within major pharmaceutical markets.
• Knowledge and application of the principles of the Quality Management Systems (QMS).
• Comfortable with verbal and written English.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Knowledge of / experience in API, sterile, parenteral, and/or biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes / environments
• Auditor certification from relevant external organization and/or GSK auditor certification.

Closing Date for Applications: Sunday 31st August (COB)

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

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. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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