Senior) Director of Quality Assurance (STA Qualified Person (QP))
Location : Germany, Munich, but willingness to travel and stay at WuXi STA Couvet, Switzerland site.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate WuXi STA’s QP organization based in Germany
- Set up WuXi STA’s QP office and hold ownership of the related systems and processes.
- Be responsible for QP certification of WuXi STA’s manufactured products on behalf of clients for clinical and commercial products.
- Provide quality and compliance guidance to STA staff and sites. Assist in quality issue resolution in a timely manner to ensure smooth progress of projects. Drive quality improvement projects and continuous improvement.
- Host regulatory inspections to obtain necessary licenses and authorizations to support QP review and certification processes.
- Host major client audits related to STA QP organization and ensure successful completion of these audits.
- Properly allocate resources to all projects and activities. And make adjustments whenever is needed, ensuring that every project meets timeline and Quality requirements.
- When significant quality impact of a project is identified, immediately report to upper management and communicate with the customers (including proposal for solution and prevention).
- Communicate with the customer in a timely manner and ensure customer satisfaction. Meet customer requirements by understanding the customer needs.
- Communicate across STA organization and sites to assure QP processes and certification.
- Recruit new staff and ensure that they receive proper and adequate trainings. Coach staffs so that they continuously improve their work skills.
Qualifications
- PhD / Master in pharmaceutical, chemical or analytical sciences or equivalent degree. Be proficient in drug product manufacturing processes, support and GMP regulations.
- More than 10 years experience in Quality Assurance or other relevant functions in regulated pharmaceutical environment; more than 6 years people leadership and team management experience.
- More than 5 years in EU Qualified Person role, necessary qualification and certification to act as EU Qualified Person
- Excellent in presentation and communication in German and English
- Demonstrate ability in problem solving, communications, quality system implementation and team building.
- Demonstrated ability of pro-active thinking and setting up systems for prevention of quality issues
- Demonstrate outstanding and balanced participative / directive and quality leadership.
- A talent for fostering resources optimization, continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
- Exceptional skills for analyzing problems and finding innovative solutions.
- Proven ability to motivate, mentor and work efficiently, as well as with persons from other cultures, as in cross-functional and self-directed work teams
Location : Germany, Munich, but willingness to travel and stay at WuXi STA Couvet, Switzerland site.