Production Scheduling Business Lead
Closing Date: 20th May 2026 (COB)
Business Introduction
We manufacture and supply reliable, high-quality medicines and vaccines to meet patients’ needs and drive our performance.
Our network of 37 medicines and vaccines manufacturing sites delivered 1.7 billion packs of medicines and 409 million vaccine doses in 2024 to help make a positive impact on the health of millions of people. Our supply chain is not just core to our operations; it’s vital to bringing our innovations to patients as quickly, efficiently and effectively as possible. Technology is transforming how we manufacture medicines and vaccines, enabling us to increase the speed, quality and scale of product supply.
We need the very best minds and capability to help us on our journey to make more complex products, harnessing the power of smart manufacturing technologies including robotics, digital solutions and artificial intelligence to deliver for patients.
Position Summary
This role leads Production Scheduling process excellence across the B&D network by embedding functional maturity standards in BAU, shaping the Advanced Scheduling future state and deployment approach, and acting as BAU Business Process Owner for the OMP Advanced Scheduling roadmap to enable sites and deliver measurable benefits.
Responsibilities
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:
· Embed scheduling functional maturity standards in BAU through maturity baselines/roadmaps, standard work, dashboards, and continuous improvement coaching.
· Provide business process leadership to site Scheduling Managers/SMEs across diverse manufacturing archetypes and scheduling solutions.
· Lead governance and decision-making on operational scheduling standards, including facilitating key forums to align sites and global stakeholders.
· Define the Advanced Scheduling future state in programme phase (processes, RACI, interfaces, deployment playbook, and adoption/benefit tracking).
· Partner across Design, Data, Tech, Deployment and business teams to deliver programme outcomes on time and support sites through transition and hypercare.
· Own BAU product leadership for OMP Advanced Scheduling (roadmap/releases, L0 SME support, training/enablement, cross-functional alignment, champions network, and business cases for future waves).
Why You?
Basic Qualification
We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications to help us achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- Demonstrated experience in production scheduling, supply planning, and/or manufacturing operations in a multi-stakeholder environment.
- Experience establishing and embedding operational standards (e.g., standard work, governance/RACI, ways of working) and driving adoption across teams or sites.
- Experience supporting or leading process and/or digital deployments, including training/enablement and transition support (e.g., hypercare).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with practical experience using planning and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, scheduling/APS systems).
- Proven ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders to make timely, risk-based operational decisions in a regulated manufacturing environment.
Preferred Qualification
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Experience with Advanced Planning & Scheduling (APS) tools (e.g., OMP Advanced Scheduling, SAP PP/DS, Kinaxis, AspenTech) and translating business needs into scalable process/system requirements.
- Experience acting as a Business Process Owner/product owner (or similar) for an operations process/system, including roadmap input, release readiness/impact assessment, and stakeholder communications.
- Experience defining and tracking benefits, adoption, and operational KPIs to support value realisation and continuous improvement.
- Strong facilitation and change leadership skills, including building SME/champions networks and running workshops/forums across sites.
- Lean/Six Sigma (or equivalent) training and practical continuous improvement delivery experience.
Our approach and culture
We seek people who are open, practical and collaborative. You will work with diverse teams and partners. We welcome different perspectives and are committed to inclusion. We aim to make work accessible and supportive so everyone can do their best.
Apply now
If this role matches your skills and ambition, we want to hear from you. Please apply and tell us how your experience will help deliver reliable supply and meaningful improvements in production scheduling.
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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