Are you looking for a high-profile product leadership role that allows you to shape and drive technical teams that are at the forefront of biopharmaceutical technology?  If so, this Product Technology Director role could be an exciting opportunity to explore.

As a Product Technology Director, you will be responsible for leadership of the product Center of Excellence (CoE), with responsibility for ensuring that the Supply Divisions are technically self-sufficient for all New Product Introduction (NPI) activities, and ongoing product lifecycle support, in terms of product, process and device.

This role will provide/gives YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.  These responsibilities include some of the following:

•             Leadership of a team of Global Product Owners, Global Device Owners and Global Platform owners accountable for all technical aspects of the Haleon selected product business.

•             Accountable for ensuring appropriate Product Technical Review Team (PTRT’s) are in place for the dose form to drive technical governance for new products.

•            Proactively address technical issues and ensure knowledge and best practice is maintained and shared.

•             Overall accountability for the technical aspects of the product platform, including unit operations and equipment devices.

•            Responsible for Interfacing with the primary organisation, material sciences and working with device external suppliers to deliver the product requirements for GMS.

•             Represent GMS in the Physical Product Development (PPD) process prior to site allocation and thereafter provide expert technical guidance and support to the Site Technical Director.

•             Accountability for the stability of the manufacturing process for products within the DPI dose form and approval of the manufacturing process and controls section of relevant Regulatory submissions.

•             Provide technical leadership and strategic technical direction for the GSK Technical organisation, including support of the technical change management process through the product technical review team.

•             Support standardisation of device manufacturing across suppliers and GSK sites engaged in manufacture of dose form products and components.

•             Support the site technical directors in the Product Lifecycle Management process for product forms and in setting and delivering improvement targets.

•            Maintain dose form knowledge and understanding in the CoE proactively exchanging information with counterparts.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Industrial experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing /development
• Experience in product design, process development and major product transfer
• Experience interfacing with formulation science, analytical technologies, engineering, and packaging

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Master’s degree or PhD
• Excellent project and process management skills within a complex matrix
• Ability to operate in detail without losing sight of commercial and business drivers
• In-depth knowledge of GMP and Regulatory requirements, including FDA submission

Why Haleon?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.

As Haleon focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Agile and distributed decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk, governance and control, managing ambiguity and paradox.
• Managing individual performance.
• Creating a performance culture and driving results, prioritisation, execution, delivering performance.
• Setting strategic direction and leading on-going organisational transformation.
• Building a resilient organisation.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration in service of common goals, engaging the organisation and building trusted external networks for mutual benefit.
• Managing P&L and capital allocation.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Haleon offers a robust Total Reward package that consists of competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits program.  This includes a generous 401(k) plan, tuition reimbursement and time off programs including 6 months paid parental leave.  On day one, you are eligible for benefits, including our healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family.  We also offer the opportunity to receive a discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance and other incentive/recognition programs as part of the offering.