Pharmaceutical Packaging Artwork Manager - Scotland - £50-60k basic + bonus + benefits

Pharmaceutical Packaging Artwork Manager

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to:

• Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -
• Head of Print recruitment - Neil Pearson -
• Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies - Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

Want to move to one of the most picturesque parts of Scotland, yet with easy access to Edinburgh city centre, whilst also joining a company on an upward growth curve with massive potential? Do you have a solid background to senior level in coordinating artwork changes on pharmaceutical packaging? If yes, this is the role for you.

This role is permanent but an interim candidate may be considered in the short term if well qualified.

This job function will provide oversight, control and priority management for all activities concerned with the origination and change control of all printed packaging items. The job holder will coordinate the efforts of all business functions involved in the creation, management and control of printed items, specifically; Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Quality Assurance in order to plan and provide for appropriate capacity management, job scheduling, prioritisation of activities, consolidation of activities version and effectivity date control. Job scope shall include all products and all territories.

Key Responsibilities

• Assimilation of and assessment of current and new product and packaging change requests as a result of line extension, branding, regulatory update, safety update, new product introduction.
• Determination of Go/No Go decisions on new item requests and change requests.
• Prioritisation and resource oversight for approved changes.
• Effectivity date planning, detailed planning of the various steps in the change process to bring the new product or new version to a "First Lot to Stock" position ensuring minimal product and/or bill of materials obsolescence and no discontinuity of supply.
• Close coordination with internal business functions and stakeholders responsible for the various change steps and/or new product/new version introduction - primarily Regulatory Affairs, Project Management, Commercial Operations, Pharmacovigilance, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain Management, Alliance Management.
• Management and oversight of external service providers and stakeholders responsible for the various change steps - primarily Outsourced Artwork Service Provider, Contract Manufacturing Organisations, Third Party Logistics Providers, Partner organisations.
• Approving the scope of Artwork and printed matter item changes, management of orders placed on and the interface with the Outsourced Artwork Service Provider.
• Supervision of artwork design operations.

Position Requirements

• Educated to first degree level, life science preferred but not essential.
• Familiarity with In Design and Illustrator applications preferred but not essential, training will be provided.
• Experience with Regulatory Affairs requirements for Product labelling (QRD, SmPC).
• Experience with the management of safety updates to product labelling.
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Applications.
• General IT systems competency, adaptable to Apple Mac applications.
• Effective, cross functional team worker.
• First line supervisory experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Good communication skills.

If this is you, please do not hesitate to contact me with your CV and a small paragraph detailing why the job description above describes your experience to .

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