Site Quality Head

Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your Responsibilities Include, But Not Limited To

• Provide leadership, direction and support to the site Quality Unit
• Provide leadership for strategic site initiatives, and represent site SLT quality in local cross-functional teams representing site quality
• Assure site inspection readiness and lead Health Authority inspections, e.g. US FDA, EMEA
• Ensure overall compliance to cGMP during manufacturing, testing and distribution of drug products meeting Sandoz and Health Authority requirements, ensuring product quality, safety, and availability of products
• Implementation of local quality systems that comply with Sandoz standards, local and international regulations. Ensure effectiveness of quality systems
• Drive for Site management team accountability. Coordinate the generation and monitor the execution of the Site Quality Plan, DI Plan, Site Quality Risk Assessment and other relevant gap assessments
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement and quality excellence, fostering cross-functional collaboration and talent development
• Ensure proper preparation and consolidation of the budget for the Quality Unit
• Ensure adequate management of product critical quality issues. Ensure investigations are correctly executed and adequate CAPAs are defined, and proper follow up of CAPAs effectiveness.
• Ensure timely notification, management escalation and reporting of potential quality issues / defects.
• Responsibility for the strategic planning, organization and control of work processes in the quality unit
• Define, implement, monitor, consolidate and analyse Site Quality KPIs. Ensure Site Quality Committee is established, ensure relevant corrective and preventive actions are endorsed and implemented.
• Responsibility for occupational safety, health and environmental protection in the area

What You'll Bring To The Role

• Education in natural sciences or equivalent
• 10+ years of professional experience in the pharmaceutical industry in Quality or Manufacturing (e.g. Site Head, Production Head or Site Quality Head roles)
• Proven track record and practical experience in operating in full compliance with global cGMP requirements. Successfully managed inspections from major Health Authorities (US FDA, EMEA)
• In-depth knowledge of cGMP, FDA regulations (21 CFR Parts 210, 211), local regulations and ICH regulations
• Proven ability to manage risk and lead with strategic foresight

You'll Receive
Sandoz has an employee-first approach and that's why your personal growth is so important to us. You will have access to Coursera and other learning platforms with more than 200,000 learning videos and 5000+ courses.

In addition to the various learning opportunities, we offer company benefits, such as:

• 30 days of annual leave
• Holiday allowance
• Additional rewards for special occasions (e.g. service length awards, marriage celebration, etc.)
• Company pension schemes and capital formation benefits
• Parental leave
• Other offerings, such as bike leasing

Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged

The future is ours to shape

Commitment To Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

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