Production Manager

The Ayurveda Experience is America’s largest online Ayurvedic house of brands that markets natural, herbal skincare, bodycare, haircare products and wellness supplements. Advanced in 4 continents and having spread its wings in about 20+ countries, with over 1.3 Million customers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Italy and Spain and more with thousands of 5-star reviews.

We are PE Funded by several well-known funds and estimated value of the company is about 200 Million USD. We have notable investors likes Jungle Ventures, Fireside Ventures, Centrum Group, Anicut Capital, Singularity Ventures, Sharrp Ventures (Rishabh and Harsh Mariwala Family Office), Urmin Group, Emerge Capital, Riverwalk Holdings etc.

About the Job Role :

As a production manager you will be taking care of On Site Production as well as Quality control.

Requirements :

• Postgraduate or doctorate degree in Pharma/ Lifesciences/Chemistry
• Desired Experience: 8- 15 years of having worked in export-oriented pharma/
• herbal/ personal care/ nutraceutical industry.
• Experience of having faced audits by US FDA, EU or other similar agencies
• representing regulated markets, with knowledge of GMP, cGMP, ISO 22716, ISO
• 9000, ISO 22000, HACCP is desirable. Having worked in herbal industry and food
• industry is an added advantage.

Deliverables by the QC / QA department:

A) QC activities (mainly at third party manufacturers site which includes Personal care manufacturers,

herbal supplements manufacturers and food manufacturers)

•To audit and validate processes being followed at TPM regarding testing of RM, PM and FG.

• to audit and check and validate the instruments and equipment being used by The TPM in

terms of calibration and functioning and prepare detailed reports.

•To inspect the manufacturing area and packaging area and look for cGMP and related ISO

norms being followed and prepare reports.

•To review and update raw material and packaging material specifications

•To prepare testing specifications.

•To prepare, review and update working standards.

•To maintain calibration records of instruments.

•To prepare trend analysis of finished products and RM based on data and to set

Specifications thereof.

•To audit and validate processes at TPM for Chemical assays and standardizations of

reagents and stability studies of the same..

•To audit SOPs, and Training outlines at TPM.

•To Validate analytical reports and certificates of analysis at TPM.

•To investigate laboratory errors/LIRs

•To validate instruments, equipment, processes, analytical methods.

•To prepare stability protocols and validate stability data generated by TPM.

B) QC activities at TLS R&D Centre:

•To generate PR for the Consumables/glass wares /chemicals and other laboratory aids

/spares required for the inhouse Rand D centre.

•To perform Chemical assays and standardizations of reagents.

•To prepare SOPs, reviews for biannual review. Prepare Training outlines for the analytical and

Fand D staff.

•To maintain and control inventory of Reagents. Chemicals/glass wares.

•To conduct stability studies of reagents.

•Prepare analytical reports and certificates of analysis wherever possible or get it from

suppliers and validate them.

•To investigate laboratory errors/LIRs

•To validate instruments, equipment, processes, analytical methods.

•To prepare and evaluate stability data

•To prepare stability protocol

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•To validate stability indicating methods

C) QA Activities at TPM and In-house:

• Quality Management System- To enhance practices and procedures of Quality Management Systems to be followed in the manufacturing and testing areas and ensure that the quality of the product is in built.

•To ensure compliance for CAPA/ Risk Assessment /Market Complaint Investigations/Change

Control/ Deviation, etc.

•Quality Review Management.

•Audit Compliance Report- To provide response to the third party manufacturers , the

management and regulatory for the audit conducted.

•Audit Activities- Monitoring and Managing in house team and at the third party

manufacturers’ site for ATR (Any time Readiness) for regulatory Audits.

•To ensure compliance of other documentation activities i.e. SOPs, BMR, SMF, Training, Self inspection findings etc.

•To create a central documentation centre collating all the documents like specifications,

sops, coas, product dossiers, Batch records, audit reports, CAPA etc generated in house

and supplied by the TPMs