Global Quality Management & IT Compliance Leader in Essex

Head of Global Quality Management Systems and IT Quality Compliance

Location: Harlow, United Kingdom

Company: Teva Pharmaceuticals

We Are Teva

We’re Teva, a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company, enabled by a world‑class generics business. Whether it’s innovating in the fields of neuroscience and immunology or delivering high‑quality medicine worldwide, we’re dedicated to addressing patients’ needs now and in the future. Here, you will be part of a high‑performing, inclusive culture that values fresh thinking and collaboration. You'll have the room to grow, the flexibility to balance life with work, and the opportunity to better health worldwide, together.

Our Team, Your Impact

The Head of Global Quality Management Systems and IT Quality Compliance is a key leadership role, with primary accountability for the strategy, design, governance, and execution of the Teva Global Quality Management System (QMS) across all manufacturing, sites, and markets. This role is responsible and accountable for managing the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of the Teva Global Quality System, ensuring that quality processes, standards, and systems are harmonized, scalable, and consistently executed across the enterprise.

The position serves as the global process owner for the Quality Systems Management program, ensuring the QMS remains fit for purpose, inspection‑ready, and aligned with evolving regulatory expectations and business needs. In parallel, this role is the enterprise Quality authority for IT Quality Compliance, accountable for the governance, compliance strategy, and risk management of computerized systems that support regulated business processes. The role ensures that digital and computerized systems are fully integrated into the QMS, compliant with global GxP requirements, data integrity principles, and regulatory expectations, and enable compliant, efficient, future‑ready operations.

Operating with significant autonomy, this position owns enterprise‑level quality system and IT compliance risk, inspection outcomes, and organizational capability related to Quality Systems and IT Quality. The role works cross‑functionally with Quality, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, R&D, IT, and Regulatory Affairs to drive alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across the global quality ecosystem.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

• Responsible for leading and governing the following core elements of the Global Quality Systems Management program:

• Global QMS Strategy & Governance: Define and execute the global QMS strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate Quality objectives, regulatory requirements, and business priorities. Establish and maintain global Quality policies, standards, and frameworks as part of the enterprise QMS. Ensure clear process ownership, governance, and accountability across all QMS elements.
• Core QMS Processes Ownership: Quality Metrics and KPI development and implementation. Provide global oversight and accountability for key QMS processes, including: Change Control, Deviations, Investigations, CAPA, Document and Records Management, Training and Learning Management, Quality Risk Management, Complaint Handling, and Data Integrity. Ensure processes are harmonized, risk‑based, and consistently applied across clusters and sites.
• QMS Performance, Compliance & Inspection Readiness: Ensure the Global QMS supports continuous inspection readiness and effective regulatory compliance. Monitor QMS performance, trends, and health metrics to proactively identify and mitigate systemic risk. Sponsor and lead remediation and transformation initiatives to address systemic quality or compliance gaps.
• QMS Modernization & Continuous Improvement: Drive QMS simplification, standardization, and modernization through digital enablement and automation.

Key Responsibilities – IT Quality Compliance

• Own the global IT Quality Compliance framework, fully embedded within the Global QMS. Provide enterprise governance and oversight for computerized systems validation (CSV), SDLC compliance, and data integrity. Ensure IT systems supporting regulated processes are fit for intended use, compliant by design, and inspection‑ready. Provide executive leadership for IT‑related audits, inspections, deviations, and critical quality events. Guide compliance approaches for cloud platforms, SaaS solutions, automation, AI/ML, and emerging digital technologies.

Leadership & Enterprise Accountability

• Lead and develop a global Quality Systems and IT Quality organization, including senior leaders and subject‑matter experts. Act as a trusted advisor to Global Quality, IT, and business executives. Own enterprise risk and inspection outcomes related to Quality Systems and IT Quality Compliance. Balance regulatory rigor, operational efficiency, and innovation while maintaining Quality independence. Lead transformation programs focused on digitization, simplification, and standardization of global processes. Lead, mentor, and develop a high‑performing global team, promoting collaboration and innovation.

Your Skills and Experience

• Education/Qualifications: BS Degree in Science, Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy or related.
• Minimum of 15 years’ pharmaceutical experience in a Quality or Operations role in a GMP environment in a large pharma company.
• At least 5 years in leading direct reports in a site Quality unit, Quality operation and Quality Control.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of cGMP, Risk Management, and in the implementation of Pharmaceutical Quality Management Systems.
• Expert knowledge in regulatory standards in Pharmaceutical Industry, including requirements and expectations of global regulatory bodies (US FDA, EU authorities).

Professional Skills

• Practical knowledge of Global Compliance and Regulatory requirements, Industry, cGxP and associated guidelines, Quality System, IT quality compliance and Risk Management.
• Direct interaction with health authorities.
• Experience working in a large, complex matrixed environment with global processes & governance structures.
• Strong critical thinking, strategic thinking, and senior stakeholder management capabilities.

How We’ll Take Care of You

At Teva, better health starts from within, and that includes you. From day one, you’ll be supported with benefits designed to help you thrive in and out of work. This includes generous annual leave, reward plans, flexible working schedules (dependent on role), access to tailored health support, and meaningful ways to give back to the community.

Teva Pharmaceuticals is committed to equal opportunity in employment. It is Teva's global policy that equal employment opportunity be provided without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, disability, pregnancy, medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, veteran status, national or ethnic origin or any other legally recognized status entitled to protection under applicable laws.