Manufacturing Unit Leader- Pharma

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Pharma Manufacturing Unit Leader (MUL) is responsible for leading end-to-end manufacturing operations within the Pharma unit, ensuring strict compliance with regulatory standards (FDA, GMP) while driving operational excellence and delivering business performance targets. This role oversees cross-functional teams to ensure safe, high-quality, and efficient production, aligned with BD’s transformation, compliance remediation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

As a Pharma Manufacturing Leader, this position operates in a highly controlled environment involving chemical and biological products, where risk is directly associated with dose accuracy, product potency, and contamination control. The role places a critical emphasis on robust process control, sterility assurance, and reproducibility to guarantee consistent product quality and patient safety.

• Lead end-to-end daily manufacturing operations for the Pharma unit, ensuring strict adherence to production plans, safety protocols, and quality standards.
• Provide clear and consistent direction to frontline leaders and production teams across all shifts to ensure alignment and execution discipline.
• Drive effective implementation of Tiered Management and Daily Management Systems (TMS) to establish clear priorities and maintain operational control.
• Oversee core pharma operations, including formulation, aseptic processing, and filling activities.
• Maintain daily focus on deviations and batch disposition.
• Maintain daily focus on environmental monitoring and cleanroom compliance.
• Maintain daily focus on sterility assurance and contamination control.
• Operate with a low tolerance for process variation, ensuring consistency and reproducibility.
• Manage changes through a highly structured change control process, recognizing that every change carries potential regulatory and validation impact (changes may require re‑validation, re‑qualification, or regulatory approval).
• Ensure strict adherence to batch record review and documentation practices, QC testing and formal release processes.
• Oversee operations within highly controlled environments, including cleanroom classifications (Grades A–D), environmental and contamination controls, gowning, airlocks, and facility compliance standards.
• Recognize that facilities and utilities are integral to process validation and product quality.

• Ensure full compliance with FDA regulations, GMP standards, BD Quality Systems, and internal procedures, maintaining an always audit‑ready environment.
• Lead inspection readiness and actively support regulatory audits (FDA, internal, and external).
• Drive timely and effective resolution of deviations, non‑conformances (NCRs), and audit findings through robust CAPA processes.
• Reinforce a strong quality culture with accountability at all levels, grounded in the principle: "Follow the process exactly and prove every batch meets specification."
• Maintain focus on critical pharma risks including dose accuracy, potency, and contamination control.

• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and production teams to build a high‑performing, compliant, and accountable organization.
• Ensure adequate staffing, capability building, and succession planning for business‑critical roles.
• Demonstrate discipline, rigor, and a zero‑tolerance mindset for deviations.
• Foster a culture of strong governance, documentation excellence, and audit readiness.
• Balance operational performance with compliance priorities by driving compliance discipline and deviation reduction, accepting structured, deliberate decision‑making processes, and maintaining focus on contamination control, batch…