Senior QA Specialist in London

Join our client in this Senior QA position and play a key role in maintaining top-tier quality standards. If you have a keen eye for detail and a passion for compliance, this could be your perfect opportunity.

12 month contract - Hybrid

This position is responsible for Quality Assurance (QA), primarily with QA vendor oversight activities including the review of commercial bulk and finished drug products, deviation, complaint, and change control record management and providing a reliable source of information and accurate interpretation of quality, cGMP compliance requirements and quality systems, together with maintaining good working relationships with QA departments at contract facilities. Occasional travel may be required as part of this role. Please note that to be considered for this role you must have the right to work in this location.

Responsibilities

• Manage contractor quality assurance activities to ensure product is manufactured, packaged, tested, released, and distributed in compliance with all regulatory and corporate requirements.
• Building and maintaining a good working relationship with the contractor.
• Leading discussions with the contractor on quality related topics, such as complaints, change control, deviations, Out of Specification (OOS) records, processes, methods, procedures, documentation, etc.
• Recommending quality related improvements to the contractor.
• Overseeing completion of contractor quality related activities, such as process, method and procedural improvements, quality investigations, corrective and preventive actions, etc.
• Review batch records, both master production/packaging records and executed batch records ensuring compliance with GMP and registration requirements.
• Manage change control requests, including initiating and approval routing of change control requests, performing QA evaluation and endorsement/approval, reviewing associated contractor change control requests, monitoring progress of related action items, and escalation of change controls as required.
• Process product complaints, including providing support for complaint investigations related to external vendors, approving complaint investigations where required, and reviewing, editing, negotiating improvements to, and approving contractor documentation.
• Lead review of Annual Product Quality Review reports, edit, and negotiate improvements to contractor supplied reports.
• Draft or review, negotiate with contractors, and recommend approval for Quality Agreements.
• Participate in self inspections and external audits of contractor manufacturers and distributors as assigned.
• Ensure logs, databases and files related to the product quality activities are maintained.
• Performance of trend reviews and compilation of metrics.
• Develop and/or maintain pharmaceutical quality systems, as assigned.
• Author and/or revise standard operating procedures and associated work instructions, as assigned.
• Review and provide recommendations on policies and standards, as assigned.
• Support GMP/GDP site inspections, as assigned.
• Maintain compliance with personal training requirements.

Required Competencies

• In depth knowledge of cGMP / GDP regulations pertinent to the USA, EU and other international markets.
• Ability to assess the right balance between business targets and scientific and quality decisions.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to build relationships, partnerships and influence and/or enforce quality decisions at external/internal sites as appropriate.
• Good communication and organizational skills.
• Project management skills.
• Development, organization, and execution of the Pharmaceutical Quality System within the Global Quality Organization.
• Must have computer proficiency.

Required Qualification(s) and Desired Experience

• BSc or equivalent in scientific discipline.
• Proven years of experience in Quality Assurance in a pharmaceutical company.
• Extensive experience and technical knowledge in chemical, biological and/or pharmaceutical operations.
• Direct experience interacting with Health Authorities and supporting Health Authority inspections, specifically FDA and/or EMA.
• Experience in interacting with external manufacturers and supporting quality at external manufacturing sites.

For more information, please contact Frankie Cunningham.

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