About Paul
Scaling a business brings growth - and growing pains. I help companies extinguish operational fires 🔥 by streamlining processes, so you can focus on running the business; not fixing issues.
I focus on reducing process inefficiencies and wastes, improving quality, and ensuring right-first-time delivery through incremental, meaningful change.
Through stakeholder analysis, process mapping, data collection and analysis, root cause analysis, solution convergence, piloting and implementation, error proofing, risk mitigation and FMEA, improvement/change projects are destined for success.
Beyond consultancy, I equip teams at all levels with Lean Six Sigma (White, Yellow, Green Belt) and Lean Management training, embedding a culture of continuous improvement that drives lasting change and boosts morale.
While my background is rooted in the pharmaceutical industry, my expertise translates seamlessly across sectors. I’ve partnered not only with Manufacturing and Operations teams, but also with Project Management, Regulatory, Finance, Supply Chain, and Warehouse functions, delivering improvements that impact the whole business.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Derby (up to 50km), London (up to 50km), Birmingham (up to 50km), Newcastle (up to 50km), Manchester (up to 50km)
Experience
- BD Training and Consultancy LtdOperational Excellence and Continuous Improvement Consultant and TrainerApril 2023 - Today (3 years and 2 months)• Working with clients to improve their processes by identifying and reducing inefficiencies, increasing right-first time and quality, and ultimately reducing costs.• Methods include stakeholder analysis, process mapping, value stream mapping, data analysis, root cause analysis, solution convergence, piloting and implementation, risk mitigation, RACI, SOPs, FMEA and much more.• Worked with Production, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Research and Development, Project Management, Regulatory, Finance, Warehousing, and Health and Safety teams, including large multi-stakeholders projects.• Training packages include: Lean for Managers, and Lean Six Sigma White, Yellow and Green belt.• Helping clients to adopt an Operational Excellence culture, empowering employees at all levels to identify, recommend and/or implement change.• Excellent Excel and Power Automate skills to automate labour intensive spreadsheet activities, etc.
- Quotient Sciences LtdUK Director of Operational ExcellencePHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYJanuary 2021 - April 2023 (2 years and 3 months)Nottingham, United Kingdom• Designing and implementing Quotient's global OpEx strategy.• Leading the design and implementation of a new service offering for delivering multiple-site parenteral and oral solid drug programmes from formulation development in the UK/US to Pharmacy clinical compounding and dosing at another US site - This included travel to the US a number of times.• Recently led the introduction of a 3D tablet printer. Programme being delivered in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and another Pharma company which will eventually lead into a clinical trial.• Leading continuous improvement initiatives and driving operational excellence across the Nottingham site, plus expansion plans to introduce the function into other sites globally.• Key achievements:◦ Increase in %RFT for equipment cleaning after using potent molecules from 11% to 78%.◦ Decrease in equipment cleaning document average turnaround time by 90%.◦ Decrease in QA audit average completion time by 57%.◦ 5S of equipment and materials storage locations across the business.◦ Many more CI projects undertaken.• Trainer of Lean Six Sigma courses and mentor to practitioners.• Technical review of proposals for development and clinical trial programmes to determine feasibility and capability globally.• GMP facility upgrade and expansion designing based on updates to regulatory guidelines, customer demand, client expectations, industry standardisation and futureproofing.• Author of OpEx newsletters and Pharmaceutical Sciences intranet to communicate successes across the company.
- Quotient Sciences LtdHead of ProductionPHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRYApril 2017 - December 2018 (1 year and 8 months)Nottingham, United Kingdom• Leading a Production team of ~32 employees including Principal, Senior and Junior Manufacturing Scientists andTechnicians, Study Managers, Production Supervisors, CMC Coordinators, Training Coordinator and Supplies team.• Technical input into the design and costing of studies with Business Development during RFP stage for feasibility, CMC and stability programmes through to clinical trial manufacturing campaigns.• Introduction of new technologies and facility capabilities from URS to DQ, IQ, OQ, PQ, SOP, training and approval.• Maintenance of grade C and D (class 10,000 and 100,000) manufacturing facility, Grade A isolators and equipment.• Providing guidance for production processes for solid and liquid oral, inhalational, parenteral, topical, rectal, buccal and ophthalmic dosage forms and handling of potent and radioactive materials.• Scheduling of ~60 concurrent studies in development, technical transfer, CMC and clinical trial phases.• Hosting >40 client and regulatory audit tours of GMP manufacturing facility and ancillary areas per year.• Generation of production and quality KPIs and production reports to Senior Management and Board of Directors.• Techniques: spray drying, pan coating, fluid bed drying/coating, high shear granulation, roller compaction, manual/semi-automatic/automatic tabletting, automatic capsule filling, sterile drug manufacturing.
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Education
- BSc BiochemistryUniversity of Nottingham (Alumni2008BSc Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry - 2:1
- A LevelsArthur Mellows Village College2005Maths - A Business Studies - A Chemistry - A
Certifications
- Lean Six Sigma Black BeltGame Change2019