Team Leader- Visual Inspection

Pfizer Pfizer · Pharma · Vizag, India

This role is a team lead in pharmaceutical manufacturing, focusing on visual inspection. While the role mentions using AI tools like ChatGPT for problem-solving as a bonus, the core responsibilities are centered around managing projects, people, financial resources, process improvements, and ensuring regulatory compliance (cGMP) in a manufacturing environment. The primary focus is on operational excellence and team leadership within the pharmaceutical industry, not on building or researching AI/ML models.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage projects and set objectives, leading people, technology, and financial resources.
  2. Identify and develop innovative process or product improvements, taking calculated risks to achieve results.
  3. Solve complex problems, leveraging experience from various areas as needed.
  4. Manage the performance of direct and indirect reports, supporting team objectives and providing input to senior management.
  5. Partner with leadership to achieve objectives and manage teams, ensuring regulatory compliance and adherence to SOPs and cGMP requirements.

Skills

Required

  • High school diploma (or equivalent) with 8+ years of experience or associate’s degree with 6+ years of experience or BA/BS with 2+ years of experience or MBA/MS with any years of relevant experience
  • Strong people management experience in a regulated manufacturing operations environment
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • A working knowledge of Upstream/Downstream Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) manufacturing operations
  • Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced, and goal-driven environment
  • Strong decision-making capability

Nice to have

  • Relevant pharmaceutical industry experience
  • Experience with Lean Tools and their implementation
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills
  • Ability to recognize development needs and create opportunities for colleagues
  • Experience in maintaining regulatory compliance through established programs
  • Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance

What the JD emphasized

  • people management experience in a regulated manufacturing operations environment
  • cGMP manufacturing operations
  • regulatory compliance