Raw Material Technical Change Specialist

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About the role

The role of the Raw Material Technical Change Specialist is to provide specialist technical leadership for raw material change programmes (globally).  You will be the technical lead for multiple complex raw material supplier changes, effectively being the subject matter expert in support to the wider supply chain.  You will lead the technical evaluation of changes, co-ordinate and complete all technical activities needed for implementation, and support the programme manager to plan and drive technical aspects of the supplier change (to completion).

This is a key role within the technical supply chain function, reporting to the Lead of the Materials Science Group, with responsibilities that will include acting as the technical expert for raw material supplier changes (to assess and mitigate technical risk, and to define product control strategies).  This extends to defining and managing validation activities (including post-implementation reviews).  You will also co-ordinate technical activities at third-party labs, scale up facilities and at Supply Chain manufacturing sites to prove material equivalency, assessing product stability and validating product changes.  Throughout your role you will also identify resource issues, elevating any risks/issues (as appropriate).

Key Responsibilities

• Support technically complex materials changes that are beyond the capacity or capability of the regional or site Supply Chain teams. Materials changes initiated to primarily focus and resolve material supply de-risking initiatives. Compliance remediation, vendor changes, cost improvement programs, network strategy movement, or major value engineering assessments may also be undertaken. Be accountable for optimising the effectiveness of change-programmes (some of which will have global ramifications). These  material risk assessments will also involve liaising with nitrosamine and genotoxic teams.
• Deliver key Procurement function deliverables through materials science – prioritising analytical testing and analyses across the portfolio of programs
• Clearly communicating progress and escalating issues to stakeholders in a consistent and timely manner, via the use of commonly accepted mechanisms
• Accountability for ensuring material change assessments (MCA) are written in a timely manner to appropriate standards to support business decisions for de-risking and CR efforts.
• Serve as an interface between Procurement, Product Supply sites and internal and contract materials science labs for the delivery of critical materials understanding and content
• May design technical experiments and testing as necessary to ensure appropriate materials change project progress
• Exposure to material related change controls either internally (e.g. NPI, SC) or externally (e.g. API supplier change).  As appropriate, should be aware of the following GxP activities: Product Lifecycle Management activities (Change Control, Deviation, CAPA's, trial and validation reports author/reviewer/approver as appropriate, risk assessment author/reviewer/approver as appropriate), understanding of the auditing world.
• Exposure to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) desirable.
• Chemical synthesis awareness (appreciation of the impact of source change on end use in intermediates or finished products),
• Strong people skills and a proven ability to drive performance and common-objective thinking, with a complete focus on providing solutions.
• Persuasive, strong continuous improvement mindset, and proven experience dealing with diverse (and in some cases demanding) stakeholder group

This role is offered as a permanent role.

What are we looking for?

• A bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field
• Raw material change-implementation experience
• Experience of working on transformational global programmes
• Able to manage multifunctional, broad-based/diverse teams and stakeholders
• Have relevant change-material management experience (ideally with knowledge/experience of CARISMA3). 
• Have a background in conducting materials/technical risk assessments (MRA/TRA).
• Have a solid understanding of materials science structure-property relationships and related fields such as material characterisation and chemical synthesis (and an appreciation of the impact of source change on end use in intermediates or finished products). Experience in OSD, LCOs and/or suspension processing desirable.
• Have a proven background in process chemistry or process engineering roles in a Pharmaceutical, OTC, or FMCG environment (highly regulated).

Preferred experience:

If you possess the following in addition to the above, it would be a plus: 

• Have strong people skills and a proven ability to drive performance. 
• It is imperative in this role that you demonstrate an ability to drive common-objective thinking, with a complete focus on providing solutions. 
• You will need to be persuasive and have a strong continuous improvement mindset

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