Plant Head - Production - Pharmaceutical

Job Title: Plant Head - Nigeria

Reporting to: Line Reporting to Country Manager

Dotted Line Reporting to Manufacturing head - Africa

Education: B.Pharma (Preferred)

Desired Experience: 3+ Years

Accountability:

- This position leads and directs all manufacturing processes of production and ensures that targets are achieved as per the planned schedule, ensuring that system and procedures are in place with better understanding of regulatory requirement for compliance.

Job Profile

- Ensure smooth running of the plant operations from manufacturing to packaging, monitoring reduction of the downtime period / manpower wastage to lowest minimum during the manufacturing activities.

- Collaborate with technical team in the factory to shape manufacturing strategy

- Monitor and ensure that target, production planning, time and setting of priority.

- Provide leadership and direction to ensure achievement of all functional accountabilities for manufacturing processes

- Monitor and regulate the compliance in the plant as per Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and regulated requirement.

- To ensure the compliance of existing plant with respect to regulatory and statutory requirements.

- To ensure all existing plant expenses are within approved budgetary allocations.

- To deliver marketing requirements month after month within optimum utilization of available resources and ensure product quality.

- Statutory and regulatory compliance on regular basis.

- To handle all National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) inspections to check the systems and regulatory compliance in conjunction with the regulatory Affairs Manager

- Supervise all manufacturing and packing operations by monitoring all control to get max. productivity without compromising quality

- Plan for fire and Current Good Manufacturing Practice training for factory staff every year.

- Plan and co-ordinate all activities for contract manufacturing at plant

- Planning for capacity expansion and utility projects at plant level. This includes Man, Machine, material planning for increasing demand of product.

- Ensure smooth running of the factory operations in terms of increase in demand for steam, water, power, storage space etc.

- Ensure the technology transfer is smooth and complete for new product from R&D, development of all packaging material for new product.

Nidhi Dhyani
+91.11.43138644