Team Manager Pack & Label with Quality Responsibility Drug Product Delivery
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Job Summary
We are curious creative and open to new ideas and ways of working. Above all we are passionate about science and driven to always put patients first. Join AstraZeneca and apply your expertise in a company that follows the science and turns ideas into lifechanging medicines.
Pharmaceutical Technology and Development (PT&D) is the organization that turns brilliant science into actual medicines that help millions of people. We work across the entire value chain designing and delivering active ingredients formulations and devices for new medicines and providing expert technical support to all AstraZenecas commercial drug substances and products to ensure we successfully supply medicines to patients.
Drug Product Delivery (DPD) within Clinical Manufacturing & Supply sits in the PT&D organisation and is the only AstraZeneca site that packs labels and distributes investigational medicinal products to clinical trial patients worldwide. We support launched prelaunch and pipeline products across all therapeutic areas with a focus on earlyphase studies. DPD comprises three teams: Pack & Label Delivery Lead and Material Management & Distribution.
We are seeking a Team Manager to lead our Pack & Label (P&L) team and take on departmental Quality responsibilityincluding Head of Production. The P&L team consists of approximately 1015 colleagues with strong pharmacy and GMP backgrounds performing primary and secondary packaging and labelling of clinical trial materials for global earlyphase studies.
What youll do
- Team leadership: Leading coaching and developing a highperforming team. Setting objectives managing performance building capability and ensuring training and qualification compliance.
- Operational excellence (P&L): Overseeing daytoday packaging and labelling operations securing safety rightfirsttime execution productivity and ontime delivery to study plans. There is an expectationto build matching capabilities and capacities and develop P&L toaproduction driven asset.
- Quality ownership (departmental):
- Leading Quality governance and KPIs (e.g. deviations CAPA rightfirsttime OTIF); chair Quality meetings and drive continuous improvement.
- Acting as inspection/audit host; coordinating internal audits and supporting external audits/inspections; maintaining inspection readiness.
- Ensuring GMP compliance across procedures batch documentation change control and training; upholding AstraZeneca Policies and Standards and securing License to Operate.
- Head of Production:
- Ultimately accountable for GMP in DPD production areas ensuring products are produced and stored per approved documentation and that instructions are approved and implemented.
- Ensuring production records are evaluated and signed by an authorized person; securing qualification and maintenance of premises/equipment and completion of required validations and training.
- Sharing responsibility with EPDM Head of Production Head of QC and (as relevant) Head of QA/Quality Unit for the QMS: design implementation and monitoring; GMP compliance oversight; management reviews and continual improvement; timely communication/escalation of quality issues; and reporting License to Operate metrics in Management Review.
- Crossfunctional collaboration: Working closely with Delivery Leads Material Management & Distribution Quality Assurance Clinical Supply colleagues and external partners.
- Projects Lean and CI: Leading or contributing to continuous improvement digitalization/automation initiatives and resource planning.
- SHE stewardship: Upholding SHE standards and leading a proactive safety culture; ensuring policies risk assessments and safe systems of work are understood and followed.
Essential requirements
- Education: MSc/BSc in Supply Chain Management Pharmaceutical Sciences Engineering Life Sciences or equivalent experience.
- Regulated industry background: Proven extensiveexperience in GMP or other highly regulated environments (pharma/biotech/medtech).
- Leadership: a few years of people management in operations/production/clinical supply with demonstrated team development and performance management.
- Proven ability to work with teams in a culturally diverse complex and changing environment.
- Quality systems: Handson experience with leadingdeviations CAPA change control batch records data integrity training and qualification; experience hosting or participating in audits and inspections.
- Experience working in an automated production environmentor similar.
- Validation experience.
- Strong problem solving prioritization and project management skills
- Excellent communication and influencing across functions and cultures
- Being comfortablein a fast paced environmentand resilient to change.
- Work mode: Onsite presence in Gothenburg is mandatory.
At AstraZeneca were dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and unleash your entrepreneurial spirit. Theres no better place to make a difference to medicine patients and society. An inclusive culture that champions diversity and collaboration. Always committed to lifelong learning growth and development.
We welcome your application (CV and cover letter clearly stating how your experience is relevant to our role) no later than April 3rd 2026!
Date Posted
25-mars-2026Closing Date
04-apr.-2026Our mission is to build an inclusive and equitable environment. We want people to feel they belong at AstraZeneca and Alexion starting with our recruitment process. We welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates regardless of characteristics. We offer reasonable adjustments/accommodations to help all candidates to perform at their best. If you have a need for any adjustments/accommodations please complete the section in the application form.Required Experience:
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