Senior Quality Applications Analyst - GxP Systems

Octapharma; Lachen; Remote; CHF 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Quality applications

GxP environments

Requirements management

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

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

Tools

Veeva QualityDocs

Veeva QMS

LIMS

Job description

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.