Job description
Site Name: UK - County Durham - Barnard Castle
Posted Date: Oct 23 2025
The Quality function promotes quality and compliance through the product life-cycle within the wider manufacturing and production operations at GSK Barnard Castle Manufacturing Site. The Quality function at GSK plays a critical role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety, efficacy, and compliance. As part of this team you will uphold our commitment to delivering high-quality medicines and vaccines, and healthcare products to patients and consumers around the world.
Job Purpose:
Reporting into the site’s Quality Director, The Quality Compliance Lead ensures site operations consistently fulfil regulatory and quality agreement standards. This role requires strong leadership, proactive management and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams to maintain compliance, drive continuous improvement and ensure inspection readiness at all times.
Direct Reports – The role manages approximately 7 direct reports.
Key Responsibilities:
• Manage the registration process for new products and oversee the maintenance of existing licenses (including pharmaceuticals and medical devices) to ensure all regulatory requirements are met.
• Maintain Quality Agreements with GSK customers and third- parties, aligning with regulatory and organisational standards.
• Focus on People management, succession planning and team development to ensure retention. Lead, train, coach and motivate management team and employees towards Continuous Improvement, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), as well as provide development of direct reports and key talent within the Quality Compliance organization; the creation of a high performing team.
• Ensure effective product quality compliance via the management and oversight of Periodic Product Review (PPR) processes.
• Manage the site’s internal Inspection Readiness programme (and associated activities) ensuring ongoing compliance with GMP standards.
• Maintain an independent programme of internal audits to identify and address compliance risks across the site.
• Develop and implement a framework to ensure all parts of the site remain inspection-ready at all times (fostering a culture of quality awareness).
• Manage external and internal inspections, including preparation of data ahead of inspections and the organisation of the control room during inspection activities.
• Manage customer and vendor complaints processes to ensure timely investigation, resolution and communication of corrective actions.
• Establish and maintain effective Quality Governance systems (including the Quality Council) to ensure robust oversight of quality compliance and continuous improvement activities.
About You:
As this role is multi-faceted and includes liaising with a wide variety of on-site production and operations teams, you will be a self-motivated person who has strong experience of working in regulatory or quality functions and/or manufacturing at a complex highly-regulated manufacturing site. You should be able to demonstrate knowledge / experience of inspection readiness (audit-experience). You will be resilient and calm under pressure, with strong people skills and a proven ability to influence people to achieve objectives and drive performance. You will have a strong continuous improvement mindset. Effective written and verbal communication and excellent interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to organise and prioritise workload are considered essential skills.
About Barnard Castle:
GSK Barnard Castle is a key secondary manufacturing site. We have invested heavily in industry 4.0 state of the art bespoke equipment to support sustained new product introductions and volume increases. As a key supplier of some of GSK’s blockbuster products the site contributes revenues of ~$2Bn annually.
CLOSING DATE for applications: Wednesday 5th of November 2025 (COB).
Basic Qualifications:
* Degree in relevant Scientific, Technical or Engineering discipline (or equivalent experience, ideally gained working in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility or similar highly-regulated industry).
* Relevant quality / compliance knowledge and experience.
* Management experience.
* Knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) requirements.
* Knowledge and application of Quality Management Systems (QMS).
* Knowledge of internal and external audit processes (eg; inspection readiness & validation).
Benefits:
GSK offers a range of benefits to its employees, which include, but are not limited to:
* Competitive base Salary
* Annual bonus based on company performance
* Opportunities to partake in on the job training courses
* Opportunities to attend and partake in industry conferences
* Opportunities for support for professional development and chartership
* Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes
* Employee recognition programmes
If you would like to learn more about our company wide benefits and life at GSK we would suggest looking at our webpage Life at GSK | GSK .
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.
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