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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Managing Director, Guy's and St. Thomas' Pharmaceuticals
Closed for applications on: 17-Jul-2025 00:01
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 17-Jul-2025 00:01
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Hospital
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Given the nature of the role and the business objectives, the post-holder will be required to spend the majority of their working hours on-site and will be required to travel to off-site locations throughout the UK for in-person client meetings and events.)
Salary
- Salary
- £113,557 - £129,443 pa inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 9)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmaceutical Business Development
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
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.
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As Managing Director, you will:
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Provide leadership for the strategic and operational delivery of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmaceuticals, including planning and delivering a robust financial plan
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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
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Build trusted relationships with NHS, academic, commercial, and regulatory partners
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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
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Manage manufacturing and quality teams covering a wide range of services, including sterile and non-sterile production, IMPs, and quality control
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Promote a culture of quality, innovation, and inclusive leadership across the team
We are looking for someone with:
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Significant senior leadership experience in NHS, life sciences or manufacturing sectors
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Proven financial, commercial, and performance management expertise
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Excellent interpersonal, strategic thinking and influencing skills
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In-depth understanding of the UK pharmaceuticals market and good understanding of GMP, MHRA licensing, and medicines regulation
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will lead Guy’s and St Thomas’ Pharmaceuticals – our commercial offer comprising a licensed NHS Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit with associated value-adding services – providing strategic leadership and operational oversight, driving performance and ensuring success.
You will have oversight of the service (which includes sterile and non-sterile medicines manufacturing, quality assurance and control, regulatory compliance, warehousing and distribution), adding value for our customers, and ensuring return on investment for the Trust.
Reporting to the Trust Chief Pharmacist, you will be responsible for:
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Developing and delivering a strategic commercial business plan with a net positive contribution, driving growth and market competitiveness
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Ensuring activities are carried out in full compliance with the requirements of the MHRA and other regulatory bodies, including GMP, QA/QC, and pharmacovigilance standards
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Leading and developing senior managers and the wider workforce across all relevant functions
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Managing relevant budgets and ensuring financial balance and income generation through contracts and high level of service delivery
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Driving continuous improvement, risk management, audit, and incident resolution
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Collaborating with NHS, academic, and commercial partners to expand and evolve the service to meet current and future market needs
You will represent Guy's and St. Thomas' Pharmaceuticals at internal Trust committees and external national forums, influencing best practice, policy, and partnership development in the NHS medicines manufacturing space.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications / Education
Essential criteria
- Vocational degree and/or significant NHS or manufacturing experience
- Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Successful management of change in a complex organisation
- Resource management (human/financial)
- Knowledge/experience of NHS operations
- Awareness of strategic influences on pharmaceutical services
- Performance management and staff development
- Interpreting/analyzing complex data/guidance
Desirable criteria
- Experience in a pharmaceutical manufacturing environment
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Leadership and motivational skills
- Communication (verbal and written)
- Business planning experience
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Decision-making and managing competing priorities
- Experience translating national strategy into local delivery
Desirable criteria
- Regional or national committee involvement
- Published research
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Keith Thompson
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist & Clinical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Site visits are encouraged and can be arranged by contacting Keith Thompson.
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