Team Manager – Production (Day and Night Shifts)

AstraZeneca; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bio-pharmaceutical company in Liverpool is seeking a Team Manager for Production on a permanent basis. The role involves managing day and night shifts, ensuring compliance with safety and quality standards, and leading a large team. The ideal candidate will have experience in a manufacturing environment and demonstrate excellent leadership and communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private healthcare

Fantastic holiday allowance

Phenomenal training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience of managing large teams within a manufacturing environment.
• Hands-on management experience dealing with performance and absence management.
• A good awareness of GMP and HS&E requirements.
• Experience of implementing Lean practices to deliver operational improvements.
• Excellent communication, organisational, planning and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Direct line-management for the team and performance objectives.
• Collaborate across multiple levels for efficient management of production processes.
• Ensure compliance with documentation, good housekeeping, and regulations.
• Take ownership of all actions within the role.
• Responsible for training and competency assessments of team members.
• Lead daily operations meetings and prioritize issues.

Skills

Experience of managing large teams within a manufacturing environment

Hands on management experience

Good awareness and understanding of GMP and HS&E requirements

Experience of implementing Lean practices

Understanding of electronic quality systems

Excellent communication skills

Organisational and planning skills

Capable of managing multiple workstreams

Influencing stakeholders

Job description

Team Manager – Production (Days and Night Shifts)

Location: Speke, Liverpool

Competitive salary and benefits

Shift work (days and nights shifts) - 4 days on/4 days off - 2 days (06:00-18:00), followed by 2 nights (18:00-06:00) and then 4 days off

At AstraZeneca, we put patients first and strive to meet their unmet needs worldwide. Working here means being ambitious, thinking big and working together to make the impossible a reality. If you are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate, and curious about what science can do, then you’re our kind of person.

Speke is one of over 400 sites here at AstraZeneca. Providing an excellent environment where everyone feels comfortable and able to be themselves is at the core of AstraZeneca’s priorities, it’s meaningful to us that people bring their full potential to work every day.

We are looking for a Manufacturing Team Manager to join us on a permanent basis. This role is on days and nights shift pattern.

What you’ll do:

• Direct line-management for their team, including the setting of annual performance objectives, quarterly performance reviews, absence management and the identification of development opportunities for team members. Where required, line management responsibility extends to all operator staff.
• Collaborate across multiple levels and departments to deliver efficient day-to-day management of the production processes, ensuring all production goals are achieved and plans are established and executed to achieve product supply requirements on a 0–6-month horizon.
• Follow required standards with respect to documentation, good housekeeping, cGMP, health and safety, timekeeping, regulatory legislative requirements and in accordance with the Code of Conduct, quality manual and any other company policies and procedures.
• Take ownership of, and be responsible for, all actions undertaken as part of the role, to to the organisation and colleagues are always met.
• To ensure the necessary documentation for the activities carried out e.g. batch documentation, SOPs etc are accurate and correctly completed by the manufacturing representatives and that procedures are reviewed in a timely manner to identify improvement opportunities.
• Responsible for completing investigations into process deviations, environmental excursions, and SHE related incidents.
• To contribute to and initiate the necessary training curricula and on the job training required by the team members in order for team to complete its role. To ensure that a competency assessment is undertaken for all core team members and that Personal Learning Plans (PLPs) are in place for staff.
• Lead daily operations meetings, prioritise and action any issues raised in a timely manner and with the appropriate resource.
• Responsible for developing and executing a team development plan in line with the manufacturing operations strategy.
• Ensure Operational Excellence is integrated into the teams responsibilities inclusive of embracing a continuous improvement philosophy and a “Right First Time From Me” attitude to all operations.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience of managing large teams within a manufacturing environment
• Hands on management experience dealing with performance and absence management.
• A good awareness and understanding of GMP and HS&E requirements within a regulatory environment
• Experience of implementing Lean practises to deliver tangible operational improvements
• Understanding of electronic quality systems
• Good technical and compliance understanding of specific process stages and equipment involved
• Excellent communication, organisational, planning and time management skills
• Capable of managing multiple workstreams and competing priorities simultaneously
• Capable of influencing stakeholders at all levels in the organisation and obtaining support from other areas as and when required

There are so many fantastic employee benefits that AstraZeneca offer! AstraZeneca can offer a competitive salary, private healthcare, a fantastic holiday allowance, phenomenal training and development opportunities and much more.

Join us on our journey of building a new kind of organisation, to reset expectations of what a bio-pharmaceutical company can be. This means we’re opening new ways to work, ground-breaking methods and bringing unexpected teams together.

Interested? Come and join our journey!

Date Posted 25-Nov-2025

Closing Date 08-Dec-2025

Our 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.