Senior Regulatory CMC Project Lead - Interim

Senior Director, Engineering & Maintenance

We are partnered exclusively to appoint a Senior Director of Engineering & Maintenance to lead a multi-site pharmaceutical manufacturing organisation through an exciting period of growth, investment and operational improvement.

With responsibility for Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Automation, Validation and Capital Projects, this role will focus on strengthening leadership capability, driving engineering performance and ensuring the organisation is equipped to support future expansion.

Leading a team of functional heads and an organisation of 50+ technical professionals, you will balance strategic priorities with operational execution, identifying risks, developing talent and delivering sustainable improvements across multiple manufacturing facilities.

Key Responsibilities

Provide leadership across Engineering, Maintenance, Reliability, Automation and Validation
Drive engineering strategy and site improvement initiatives
Develop and coach technical leaders across the organisation
Support major capital investment and expansion programmes
Strengthen reliability, compliance and risk management practices
Build a culture of accountability, engagement and continuous improvement
Identify capability gaps and implement development plans

Desired Experience

Significant engineering leadership experience within a regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment – drug product or drug substance. Sterile/Aseptic would be advantageous.
Must bring previous Director or Senior Director level responsibility – demonstrating exposure to different environments and challenges.
Experience leading multi-disciplinary engineering teams
Strong understanding of maintenance, reliability and validation principles
Background within pharmaceutical, biotech, sterile, aseptic or other cleanroom manufacturing environments
Demonstrated success developing teams and future leaders
Experience supporting growth, transformation and capital projects

Leadership Profile

We're looking for a leader who knows how to build high-performing teams. Someone who can coach, mentor and develop others, whilst creating clear expectations, accountability and engagement across the organisation.

This is an opportunity to join a business investing heavily in its operations and people, offering significant scope to shape the engineering function and make a lasting impact on future growth.

Engineering, maintenance, validation, capex, project, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, reliability, automation, continuous, improvement

Production Manager

Location: Woking

An exciting career advancement awaits you in the dynamic pharmaceutical industry. You'll spearhead aseptic pharmaceutical production, directly impacting the delivery of high-class patient care. This role offers immersive hands-on experience in overseeing production, guiding teams, and maintaining compliance with rigorous regulatory standards like GMP. With plenty of opportunity for training and growth, you'll refine your expertise in crucial areas such as team leadership and regulatory adherence. Join a thriving team and take part in pioneering innovation, achieving excellence, and elevating healthcare standards.

Responsibilities:
• Manage production of aseptic pharmaceutical products.
• Lead and train the production team, ensuring adherence to GMP standards.
• Coordinate staff schedules and oversee maintenance of production equipment.
• Assist in the development and management of quality systems.
• Participate in the management team at a strategic level.

Experience:
• Minimum 3 years' experience in pharmaceutical production
• Managerial or supervisory experience is essential.
• Equipment validation experience is an advantage but not essential.
• Any prior experience with sterile pharmaceuticals is an advantage.

Skills/Attributes:
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Strong communication and organizational skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and proactive.

Key Words:
Aseptic, sterile, production, manufacturing, GMP, manager, managerial, team leader, lead, supervisor, section, team, training, supervision, coaching, department, Cgmp, pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, pharma, biopharma, vaccine, injectables, filling, compounding.

ERP Specialist (Sage)

Are you an experienced ERP professional with a strong track record working with Sage (Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, HR and IT), looking to take ownership of meaningful systems work and support a growing technology landscape? Our client is seeking an ERP Specialist to help shape and optimise their use of Sage within a hybrid working environment 2 - 3 days onsite based in London.

The Role

This role will work closely with stakeholders across Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Finance, Quality, HR and IT to deliver ERP improvements, manage system changes, support vendors, and ensure business-critical processes run effectively.

Key Requirements

• 2-5 years' experience supporting or developing Sage ERP solutions

• Experience within manufacturing, pharmaceutical, life sciences or other regulated environments

• Strong understanding of ERP processes across operations, supply chain and finance

• Experience working with business users, IT teams and third-party vendors

• Knowledge of ERP reporting tools and Power BI

• Must be fluent in English and French

• Interest in developing future SAP capabilities as part of a long-term ERP transformation programme

What's on Offer?

• Opportunity to work across multiple European manufacturing sites

• Exposure to large-scale ERP transformation initiatives

• Clear pathway to develop SAP expertise

• Collaborative international environment within a growing life sciences business

How to Apply

If you are an ERP Specialist with Sage experience and you are looking for a permanent, hybrid role in London where you can contribute directly to how an organisation uses its core systems, we would like to hear from you. Apply today to explore this opportunity further and learn more about joining our client’s team.

Data Engineer

London • Permanent • Office-based

About Our Client

Our client is a technology-focused organisation working with complex healthcare data, building robust data products that are used in real-world settings. Their work sits at the intersection of engineering, data and healthcare, and their team is focused on solving practical problems such as acquiring, structuring and validating large-scale data so it can be trusted and used. Joining our client’s team means working closely with people who care about production-quality pipelines, clean schemas and usable interfaces rather than proofs of concept that never ship.

The Opportunity

This role is ideal if you enjoy building end-to-end data solutions: from scraping and acquisition, through ETL/ELT, to the interface that lets others actually use what you have built. You will spend most of your time in production code, not notebooks, and you will use AI inside pipelines for tangible outcomes such as extraction, classification and validation, rather than experimental model training. You will have ownership over how healthcare data is normalised, resolved and exposed in a way that supports meaningful decisions, and you will be trusted to ship working systems that our client’s team and their customers can rely on.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Python and SQL.

• Implement AI-powered components within data pipelines for structured extraction, classification and validation.

• Work with prompt engineering and APIs to integrate AI capabilities effectively, without focusing on training models.

• Develop data scraping and acquisition processes capable of operating at scale.

• Handle healthcare data with care and rigour, ensuring quality, consistency and compliance with relevant standards.

• Design and evolve data schemas to support normalisation, deduplication and entity resolution inside pipelines.

• Build and ship back-end services that expose data reliably to downstream applications.

• Create a usable front-end interface on top of your pipelines so stakeholders can interact with and benefit from the data products.

• Collaborate with our client’s team to iterate on data solutions and improve existing pipelines.

What Our Client Is Looking For

• Strong hands-on experience building ETL/ELT pipelines in production environments.

• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with a focus on writing maintainable, testable code rather than exploratory notebooks.

• Experience using AI within data workflows, particularly prompt engineering and working with APIs for extraction and classification tasks.

• Background in large-scale data scraping or acquisition, with an understanding of performance and reliability considerations.

• Familiarity with working on healthcare or similarly sensitive, structured data sets.

• Ability to design schemas and implement normalisation, deduplication and entity resolution within pipelines.

• Comfort working across both back-end and front-end, enabling you to deliver a functional interface on top of the data layer.

• A practical, delivery-focused mindset with an interest in seeing data systems used in production rather than remaining as prototypes.

What You’ll Gain

• The chance to own full data workflows, from ingestion to interface, and see your work operating in a real healthcare context.

• Exposure to modern AI tooling in a grounded way, using it where it adds value inside production pipelines.

• Opportunities to work closely with experienced engineers and data specialists in our client’s team, learning from complex data challenges.

• A role that allows you to influence data architecture and the way healthcare data is structured and made usable.

How To Apply

If you are a Data Engineer who enjoys building real systems, using Python and SQL to create robust pipelines, and you want to work with healthcare data where AI is applied for practical outcomes, we would like to hear from you. Please submit your CV, and we will be in touch to discuss the role and our client’s team in more detail.

QC Manager - Surrey

I am partnered exclusively with an international advanced pharmaceutical company that are continuing to expand operations both in terms of product delivery and site presence across the UK.

This specific hire will take management and scheduling responsibilities for all site Quality Control (QC) activities, with a strong focus on method development oversight and team leadership. A solid understanding of the full validation lifecycle is essential, alongside strong regulatory knowledge and an analytical chemistry background.

Whilst this will not be a hands-on role day to day, given the size of the unit, you will need to be comfortable spending time in the laboratory and supporting the team, particularly with out-of-specification investigations, method development, and validation activities. A strong laboratory background is essential, with experience in equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and validation highly desirable.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced people leader to help shape and develop a growing QC function. With approximately 75% of the team being newly recruited, you will have a unique opportunity to build team culture, establish best practices, and develop a high-performing department alongside site leadership. We are ideally looking for someone with around three years' management experience who can bring proven leadership skills and confidently manage the operational and people aspects of the role from day one.

Key Experience

• Experienced QC Manager, Laboratory Manager, QC Supervisor or Senior QC/Analytical Chem professional within a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical environment

• Strong laboratory experience, including equipment maintenance, troubleshooting, and analytical testing oversight

• Experience managing validation activities and supporting method validation programmes

• Technical experience with analytical techniques such as HPLC and/or GC

• Previous people management experience, ideally 3+ years

• Proven ability to lead, develop, and mentor teams

• Strong organisational, planning, and resource scheduling skills

• Excellent understanding of GMP requirements and pharmacopoeial standards

QC Manager, Quality Control, Analytical Chemistry, HPLC, GC, GMP, Method Validation, Equipment Maintenance, Laboratory Management, Team Leadership, Validation, OOS Investigations, Pharmacopoeia, QC Leadership, Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.

Lead Process Engineer - Medical Technology Manufacturing Scale-Up

South Wales (remote, with frequent travel to their manufacturing location in South/West Wales)

£50-60,000 base salary

An innovative medical technology company is entering an exciting new phase, transitioning from product development into manufacturing scale-up. With a groundbreaking product approaching commercialisation and production operations being expanded in South Wales, we are seeking a Lead Process Engineer to play a pivotal role in industrialising manufacturing and shaping the future of production.

This is a rare opportunity to join a growing business at a critical stage, taking ownership of process development, validation and production readiness while influencing how manufacturing evolves as the company scales.

The Role

As Lead Process Engineer, you will lead the establishment, optimisation and validation of manufacturing processes required to support product launch and ongoing production growth. Working closely with engineering and operations teams, you will help build robust, efficient and repeatable manufacturing systems capable of supporting commercial-scale production.

This role offers significant visibility, autonomy and the opportunity to make a lasting impact within an innovative and purpose-driven organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead manufacturing process setup, optimisation and continuous improvement initiatives

• Support production transfer, process validation and manufacturing scale-up activities

• Develop and implement manufacturing procedures, work instructions and best practices

• Improve process capability, repeatability and production efficiency

• Support new product introduction (NPI), sustaining engineering and product lifecycle activities

• Collaborate across engineering, operations and manufacturing functions to ensure successful production growth

• Troubleshoot manufacturing challenges and drive practical, hands-on solutions

About You

We are interested in candidates from a variety of engineering backgrounds, including:

Process Engineer
Manufacturing Engineer
Manufacturing Process Engineer
NPI Engineer
Product Engineer
Production Validation Engineer

You'll ideally bring experience from a regulated manufacturing environment such as Medical Devices/Technology.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Enjoy hands-on manufacturing and production challenges

• Have experience supporting process validation, technology transfer or production scale-up projects

• Are comfortable operating within a growing, fast-paced business

• Can balance immediate manufacturing priorities with longer-term operational improvements

• Enjoy taking ownership and driving projects through to completion

Location & Flexibility

• Home-based flexibility available

• Significant on-site presence required during manufacturing setup activities in West Wales

• Initial periods may involve intensive site-based support

• Travel and accommodation expenses supported

What's on Offer?

• Salary circa £60,000, depending on experience

• Opportunity to shape manufacturing strategy from an early stage

• Highly visible role with genuine ownership and influence

• Broad remit spanning process engineering, manufacturing, scale-up and lifecycle support

• Chance to help bring innovative medical technology products into commercial production

• Collaborative team environment with strong growth ambitions