The Ideal Candidate:
- Attention to detail
- Proactive and self-motivated
- Calm and logical under pressure
- Strong leadership mindset
What You'll Do:
- Accountable for day-to-day site quality operations, ensuring critical quality records and activities are completed on time while protecting patient safety and product quality.
- Lead the effective operation and continual improvement of the site Quality Management System, ensuring compliance with GDP/GMP, procedural standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.
- Own and report site quality performance indicators, identify trends and systemic risks, and drive timely, data-led corrective and improvement actions.
- Provide hands-on quality oversight of warehouse distribution, manufacturing, secondary packaging, and related supply chain/logistics activities.
- Complete or oversee risk assessments, support compliant decision-making, and act as the escalation point for site-specific quality issues or GxP-critical events.
- Ensure timely and effective completion of quality records, including deviations, complaints, CAPAs, change controls, customer verification, investigations, and root cause analyses.
- Oversee secondary packaging quality activities, including packaging strategy, specification review/approval, executed batch record review, QA oversight, and product disposition.
- Complete critical warehouse reviews as Responsible Person, Deputy Responsible Person, or Equivalent Delegate, including maintenance, pest control, cleaning, calibration, and related records.
- Partner with EU/UK Qualified Persons on communications, GMP queries, batch certification activities, and associated processes where applicable.
- Lead site inspection readiness, self-inspections, client audits, regulatory inspections, audit responses, CAPAs, and sustained remediation of findings.
- Lead, coach, develop, and line manage the QA site operations team, including resourcing, capability, succession planning, training, performance feedback, and technical development.
- Provide quality leadership for client communications, Quality Technical Agreements, recalls, continuous improvement projects, business initiatives, and a strong quality culture across the organization.
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher (preference for pharmaceutical, life sciences, or engineering concentration)
- 7+ years of relevant pharmaceutical or life sciences quality assurance experience, including substantial responsibility within both GMP and GDP operations
- Proven senior leadership and people management capability, with experience setting direction, influencing cross-functional stakeholders and making sound quality decisions in complex or time-critical situations
- Experience with UK, FDA, and EU regulations related to manufacturing and distribution operations
- Extensive applied knowledge of GMP and GDP, including data integrity, label control, secondary packaging, risk-based quality management, deviations, change control, supplier/customer management, and QMS processes
- Experience reviewing and approving deviations related to secondary packaging activities
- Strong ability to make independent, risk-based decisions while balancing business needs and quality requirements
- Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities to strict deadlines with accuracy, adaptability, and sound judgment under pressure
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex quality issues to quality and non-quality personnel
- Ability to support cross-functional projects, investigations, root cause analysis, process improvements, QMS/business process development, and proactive escalation of quality, business, or client-related risks
- IT literate, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel
- Willing to be on-site 5 days a week, if required
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