MS&T Director – Drug Product

Walker Cole International is exclusively partnering with a fast-growing global pharmaceutical business to find their new MS&T Director. This is a genuinely exciting time to join, with the business scaling its biologics manufacturing network and investing heavily in drug product capability.

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As MS&T Director, you'll take full ownership of the technical and scientific oversight of drug product manufacturing across a complex, multi-site network, sitting right at the centre of a business going through real growth and change.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning technical and scientific oversight of drug product manufacturing processes, protecting product quality and process robustness across the full lifecycle.
• Leading change control and technical change management end to end, working closely with manufacturing, quality and external partners.
• Driving technology transfer and scale-up for new biologics products, supporting launches from development through to commercial manufacture.
• Setting the standard for MS&T practice globally, making sure quality, compliance and efficiency improvements identified on one site get rolled out fast across the network.
• Partnering with Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Quality and Product Development to protect supply continuity, deliver COGS savings and provide technical input into Capex investment.
• Building technical capability across the organisation through training and knowledge-sharing.

What we're looking for:

• Strong background in biologics manufacturing, with solid drug product experience covering process validation and optimisation.
• A track record of building and running MS&T strategy and systems across global or multi-site operations.
• Experience leading tech transfer and scale-up in a regulated biologics environment.
• A clear record of driving up quality and compliance performance in a complex, matrixed business. xwzovoh
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, comfortable leading change across international, cross-functional teams.

MSAT | Manufacturing Science & Technology | Biologics | Drug Product | Tech Transfer | Process Validation | Scale-Up | GMP | Quality Compliance | Continuous Improvement | COGS | Change Control | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing