Managing Director, Guy's and St. Thomas' Pharmaceuticals

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Managing Director for their Pharmaceuticals division, responsible for strategic leadership of a licensed manufacturing facility. This role entails developing business strategies, ensuring compliance, and managing teams to deliver quality pharmaceutical services, with a focus on innovation and improving patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Significant senior leadership experience in NHS, life sciences or manufacturing sectors.
• Proven financial, commercial, and performance management expertise.
• Excellent interpersonal, strategic thinking and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for strategic and operational delivery of pharmaceuticals.
• Assess pharmaceuticals markets and implement business strategy.
• Ensure compliance with MHRA and financial sustainability.

Skills

Leadership

Commercial Acumen

Stakeholder Management

Strategic Thinking

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

We are looking for an exceptional and commercially minded leader to take forward the strategic transformation of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmaceuticals.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmaceuticals is one of the UK’s longest-standing NHS Pharmacy Manufacturing Units, based at Guy’s Hospital in London. With a strong heritage of working alongside leading clinicians, we provide a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical manufacturing and support services to UK and international markets.

Our capabilities span a broad spectrum of manufacturing activities, including sterile and non-sterile dosage forms, clinical trials and over-labelling. We also offer pharmaceutical quality control (chemical and microbiological testing), quality assurance consultancy, and medicines distribution as services. Licensable activities are delivered under MHRA MS, MIA, and MIA(IMP) licences, as well as a Wholesale Distribution licence (WDA(H)).

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of our NHS-led medicines manufacturing, taking strategic leadership and operational oversight of a licensed manufacturing facility and related services; helping to shape and deliver our ambitions for licensed aseptic services; and supporting clinical care, research, and innovation. You will combine commercial credibility with strategic thinking, stakeholder management, and strong business acumen. If you are motivated by impact, innovation, leading a diverse team and improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

As Managing Director, You Will

• Provide leadership for the strategic and operational delivery of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmaceuticals, including planning and delivering a robust financial plan
• Assess pharmaceuticals markets and develop and implement a dynamic business strategy for Guy's and St. Thomas' Pharmaceuticals, including manufacturing, marketing, and sales and excellent Customer Relationship Management that drives service and quality improvement, diversification, and income generation
• Build trusted relationships with NHS, academic, commercial, and regulatory partners
• Ensure compliance with requirements of MHRA and Home Office licenses, financial sustainability, and secure business growth in the UK healthcare and life sciences market and beyond
• Manage manufacturing and quality teams covering a wide range of services, including sterile and non-sterile production, IMPs, and quality control
• Promote a culture of quality, innovation, and inclusive leadership across the team
  
  

We Are Looking For Someone With

• Significant senior leadership experience in NHS, life sciences or manufacturing sectors
• Proven financial, commercial, and performance management expertise
• Excellent interpersonal, strategic thinking and influencing skills
• In-depth understanding of the UK pharmaceuticals market and good understanding of GMP, MHRA licensing, and medicines regulation
  
  

You will be joining a highly skilled, passionate, and close-knit leadership team within the Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation Directorate at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. Our services offered under the umbrella of Guy's and St. Thomas' Pharmaceuticals are based at Guy’s Hospital, and delivered by committed and highly experienced teams, under the leadership of our Head of Production and Head of Quality for licensed manufacturing activities, and Responsible Person for WDA(H) activities. You will be supported by a Sales and Marketing Manager and a Business Manager, and will have access to a broad range of pharmacy experts.

We have an ambitious 5 year plan for Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation at Guy's and St. Thomas' (our Strategy to 2030), which includes a focus on our people and culture, research, innovation and partnerships. We've recently had significant investment for new equipment to support our Pharmacy Manufacturing activities, and we've recently implemented a digital environmental monitoring solution. Our near-term future plans include implementing a new digital Quality Management System, and developing our aseptic estate to re-provide licensed aseptic capability.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Keith Thompson Job title: Chief Pharmacist & Clinical Director Email address: [e-mail]

Site visits are encouraged and can be arranged by contacting Keith Thompson.