Site Name:
India - Maharashtra - Nashik Site
Posted Date:
Dec 8 2025The purpose of the First Line Leader role is To develop and enable a first touch team of operators to consistently deliver outstanding safety, quality, service and value to the person at the end of our supply chain.First Line Leader role is required to focus a minimum of 70% of their time on the shop-floor.
Key Responsibilities:
Process management by creating and confirming standards:
- Process confirmations against the 4M's Material, Manpower, Method, Measurement.
- Required to manage safety, quality, compliance, service and delivery. This includes being well prepared to have a good shift/batch/day/etc.
- Ensuring adoption and adherence to the Leader Standard Work, and the application of Standard Work for roles within the area by staff.
- Being highly visible during times in the shift when there is more risk for issues e.g. Line changeovers and providing guidance and resolving problems as they arise.
- Ensuring alignment to and providing data for the tiered accountability meetings within the area and on site. Following through on resulting actions in a timely fashion.
- Ensure cGMP, regulatory, QMS, EHS, internal and external audit compliance.
- Conduct Management monitoring audit as per schedule and response to audits on need basis.
- Active engagement in Governance review meetings for the area e.g. Safety meetings, risk meeting.
- Input to GSK systems e.g. dMERP, VQD, VQMS, Workday etc.
Performance management and Problem solving-
within the business area that the FLL is responsible for.
- Deploying and ensuring delivering to achieve continuous improvements in performance to meet future business needs.
- Have the competency to run and are running an improvement cycle linked to site goals at all times.
- Clear on the link between leader competency, delivery of business benefits and GPS maturity levels.
- Proactively solving problems with direct reports using the GPS principles to eliminate recurring safety, quality and productivity issues. Considering patterns or repeating issues for true root cause resolution. This may include working beyond their own work area across the site Cross functional team.
- Real time issue identification and resolution involving staff. Including running of GSK Problem solving process with staff and necessary Support Functions, line side.
- Ensuring that the appropriate Deviation procedure and problem-solving processes are used to avoid reoccurrence of issues.
- Ensuring the area returns to standard after a safety, quality or performance/output deviation/incident in a controlled manner.
- Ensuring that they understand the cost budget for the area and the impact that they and their team can have on this.
- Participate or lead a site wide activity or project on a specific business need.
- Lead tier I PMS and attend tier-II PMS.
People Leadership
within the business area that the FLL is responsible for
- Leading and coaching of teams on shift to ensure adherence to standards for safety, quality, compliance and output.
- Working with the team to continuously improve the capability of both the individuals and the overall team to increase their performance towards targets.
- Ensuring development plans and PDPs are undertaken on a regular basis using the 70:20:10 and GSK methods. This includes ensuring that the training required is identified, recorded using the appropriate method and ensure that the training is undertaken using local processes.
- Coaching and providing development to improve the behaviour/performance of individuals and the team to ensure that the expectations are being met. This will include holding people to account for the duties that they are responsible.
- Translation of the Strategy for the area to prioritised objectives for the FLLs and their staff to deliver based on the Strategy Deployment Maps.
- Disciplinary, Absence management, Grievance procedures as appropriate in site.
- To challenge existing process and identify improvement opportunities.
Knowledge/ Education / Experience Required
Educational Background
Minimum Level of Education
- B.Pharm / M.Pharm / B.Sc./ M.Sc
Area of Specialisation
- Business or Pharma orientated would be advantageous
Why is this Level of Education Required
- To understand and implement Job requirement
Preferred Level Of Education Masters
Area of Specialisation
Science
