About The Role

Bespak are looking for a DPD Project Lead for a permanent role for the Holmes Chapel site, CW4 8BE. The salary for this role is £65,250 - £76,760K plus a discretionary annual bonus. Other benefits you will receive are 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a generous 10% pension contribution, onsite free parking, and medical / dental / health / life insurance.

Day shift pattern: Monday to Friday, with start times between 8:30am and 9:00am and finish times between 4:30pm and 5:00pm (an earlier 4:00pm finish is possible on Fridays). Start and finish times are flexible, and hybrid working is also available.

As a DPD Project Lead, you will oversee & lead projects aimed at delivering DPD services and implementing capability improvement initiatives. Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure scientific delivery is effectively aligned with the company's strategic direction, driving operational excellence, innovation, and measurable impact across the organisation.

As a DPD Project Lead your duties will include:

• Coordinate and drive delivery of DPD activities within New Product Opportunity (NPO) projects, ensuring clear strategy, effective resource use, and early risk mitigation.
• Construct and manage DPD elements of project plans, monitoring critical paths, inter-dependencies, risks, and mitigation actions.
• Identify and lead capability and business improvement initiatives within DPD, aligning with site and company goals.
• Develop and maintain a tailored DPD project management framework, including tools, templates, and ways of working, and lead regular project reviews.
• Monitor budgets and resources, ensuring proactive financial management, timely invoicing, and escalation of deviations.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between DPD, QA, QC, Regulatory, and Operations to ensure smooth project handovers.
• Manage stakeholders, including OLT/ELT function heads and sponsors, communicating risks, issues and progress effectively.
• Lead effective communication within the DPD function through regular team meetings and project updates.
• Plan proactively to anticipate future capacity, technical challenges, and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure cGMP and HSE standards are maintained across all projects.
• Coach and develop project team members to strengthen planning, communication, and project ownership.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Business Development as appropriate to support business growth.

DPD Project lead , beneficial key skills, and experience:

• Degree qualified with at least 5 years' experience in a pharmaceutical environment ideally including multiple leadership roles in at least two business functions.
• Strong regulatory knowledge appropriate to inhalation and nasal product development and commercial product approvals.
• Good knowledge of the product development process (clinical phases etc) through to commercial product validation.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects teams.
• Sound understanding of change control process and the importance of GMP.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively and influence technical and non-technical disciplines, including operational personnel and senior management, both internally and externally.
• Strong practical and technical problem solving.
• Sound decision-making skills.

Benefits:

25 days annual holiday + bank holiday + Buy/Sell Scheme | A generous employer pension contribution | Private medical insurance | Private dental Insurance | Permanent Health Insurance | Group life insurance | Free will service | Active well-being programme | Recognition awards | Free Parking

Bespak Holmes Chapel is an Investors in People silver award winner who employs over 300 people and are a pharmaceutical Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) that offers development and manufacturing solutions for a variety of medical products. Our products include medical devices such as pressurized metered dose inhalers (pMDI), soft mist inhalers (SMI), dry powder inhalers (DPI), nasal sprays and medical check valves.

Holmes Chapel is a beautiful village in Cheshire with excellent transport links via its railway station on the Crewe-Manchester Line. The village has a population of 7,000 and offers various amenities, including supermarkets, shops, restaurants, schools, and a GP practice.

As an ethical employer we align our BZero sustainability initiative to the SBTI certification which means we are on a road to carbon reduction targeting net zero and are proud to be ISO certified in 14001, 45001 and 13485.

A full job description can be downloaded on the application Screen.

Our core values are, Customer Focussed, Respectful, Collaborative, and Agile, these are woven into the fabric of our business and the values we measure ourselves by.

We are flexible. We understand that there is a life outside of work, so we aim to support you in attaining a happy work/life balance. To cater for employees' individual circumstances, and where possible, we agree flexible working arrangements.

We value our inclusivity as we believe diversity should be embraced and celebrated. We live and work by these values and that's what makes our company a great place to work.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. We will support you throughout the recruitment process with any adjustments you require therefore please contact the Recruitment Team if you require support.

Please be advised that we are working with our trusted recruitment partner, Kinetic PLC, to manage this recruitment process. As such, a consultant from their team may screen your application and contact you directly on our behalf to progress your application.