Group Senior Analyst Quality Applications

Octapharma; Lachen; A distancia; CHF 110.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Octapharma in Lachen, CH, seeks a Group Senior Analyst Quality Applications to ensure compliant, user-centric IT Quality systems across the organization. You will own lifecycle management, gather requirements, coordinate changes, and work with IT, Validation, and external partners to optimize quality processes.

The role requires 5–7 years’ experience with quality applications in pharma, GxP knowledge, and strong stakeholder management.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business Informatics, Life Sciences, or comparable qualification.
• 5–7 years hands-on experience with Quality applications in pharma or life-science industry.
• Strong practical experience with Quality systems such as Veeva QualityDocs, Veeva QMS, LIMS or equivalent platforms.
• Solid understanding of GxP requirements, validation principles, and regulated system environments.
• Experience in requirements management, change coordination, testing, and validation.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills with ability to translate business needs into pragmatic system solutions.
• Structured, detail-oriented working style with excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written); additional languages are a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Acting as subject matter expert for global Quality applications (e.g. Veeva QualityDocs, Veeva QMS, LIMS and related systems).
• Managing the application lifecycle including configuration, access models, documentation, validation readiness, and ongoing performance monitoring in a GxP-regulated environment.
• Collecting, analysing, and translating business requirements into clear solution designs and change requests.
• Coordinating and supporting system changes and releases including design, testing, validation documentation, and user acceptance testing.
• Serving as escalation point for functional support, incidents, and problem management with IT teams and vendors.
• Collaborating with Quality, IT, Validation, Architecture, and external partners to enable compliant, efficient Quality processes.
• Driving continuous improvement and digitalization, proposing enhancements from system insights and industry best practices.
• Building and maintaining a global key-user and site administrator network with training and communications.

Conocimientos

Quality applications

GxP environments

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Educación

Bachelor's degree in IT/Business Informatics/Life Sciences

Herramientas

Veeva QualityDocs

Veeva QMS

LIMS

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Group Senior Analyst Quality Applications

Job ID: 64420

Location:

Lachen, CH

Job Level: Professionals

Job Category: IT

Become part of a vital chain and contribute to our common goal of making people’s lives better. Headquartered in Lachen, Switzerland, Octapharma is one of the largest human protein manufacturers in the world, developing and producing medicines sourced from human plasma and human cell lines. We are a privately-owned company, where the warmth of family meets the scale of a global organisation.
Join us in shaping our vision to provide new health solutions advancing human life.

Your main tasks and responsibilities

• Acting as subject matter expert for global Quality applications (e.g. Veeva QualityDocs, Veeva QMS, LIMS and related systems), ensuring they remain compliant, user-centric, and fit for purpose.
• Managing the application lifecycle, including configuration, access models, documentation, validation readiness, and ongoing performance monitoring in a GxP-regulated environment.
• Collecting, analysing, and structuring business requirements from Corporate Quality, local sites, and Process Owners, translating them into clear solution designs and change requests.
• Coordinating and supporting system changes and releases, including solution design, testing, validation documentation, and user acceptance testing.
• Serving as escalation point for functional support, incidents, and problem management while ensuring timely resolution with internal IT teams and external vendors.
• Collaborating closely with Quality, IT, Validation, Architecture, and external partners to enable compliant, efficient, and harmonized Quality processes.
• Driving continuous improvement and digitalization, proactively proposing enhancements based on system insights, user feedback, and industry best practices.
• Building and maintaining a strong global key-user and site administrator network, including training delivery, communication of roadmaps, and release updates.

Your expertise and ideal skill set

You are a proactive professional with a strong "can-do" attitude who enjoys taking ownership and making things happen in a complex, regulated environment.

We are looking for someone with:

• A Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business Informatics, Life Sciences, or a comparable qualification.
• 5–7 years of hands‑on experience working with Quality applications in the pharmaceutical or life‑science industry.
• Strong practical experience with Quality systems such as Veeva QualityDocs, Veeva QMS, LIMS or equivalent regulated platforms.
• Solid understanding of GxP requirements, validation principles, and regulated system environments.
• Proven experience in requirements management, change coordination, testing, and validation.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills, with the ability to translate business needs into pragmatic system solutions.
• Structured, detail‑oriented working style combined with excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• High level of independence, ownership, and initiative, paired with a collaborative and service‑oriented mindset.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written); additional languages are an asset.

Your department - where you make an impact

• We, the Business Applications department, are the trusted partner that drives the digital transformation of Octapharma. Together with Business, we create and deliver digital solutions to transform the organization and improve performance.
• We are passionate, flexible and collaborate to create value with fit for purpose solutions for Octapharma.

Thrive with us

• You help save lives - Every day is meaningful as we produce life‑saving medicines
• Family values - Long‑term perspective for employees and relationships
• Be rewarded with market‑related salary and benefits package
• You will have a high level of influence where you can make a difference and leave your footprint
• Work with skilled and fun colleagues in a relatively informal organization
• Skills development - We offer various internal and external employee and leadership trainings, trainee programs and digital solutions

It´s in our blood

We live diversity and stand for equal opportunities as an employer! We therefore look forward to receiving your application - regardless of age, gender, origin, sexual orientation, and religion.
Please apply in English.

Do you have any questions? Then get in touch with your contact person.

Octapharma is one of the largest human protein manufacturers in the world, developing and producing human proteins from human plasma and human cell lines. We employ more than 11,000 people worldwide to support the treatment of patients in 120 countries with products across three therapeutic areas: Immunotherapy, Haematology and Critical Care.
With seven R&D sites and five state‑of‑the‑art manufacturing facilities in Austria, France, Germany, and Sweden, Octapharma also operates over 200 plasma donation centres across Europe and the US. With four decades of experience, we are committed to advancing patient care worldwide.