Product Quality Manager, Medical Devices

Galderma Services Spain, S.L.; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Galderma Barcelona hosts a Global Product Quality Center, seeking a Product Quality Manager for Medical Devices. You will drive quality oversight across the product lifecycle, support development, transfers, and post-launch activities, and ensure inspection readiness and regulatory compliance.

The role requires an advanced degree in Life Sciences or Engineering, plus strong English proficiency and global collaboration experience.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, or related discipline with knowledge of regulatory requirements.
• 7+ Quality Management certifications (e.g., ASQ CQAs) are an asset.
• Experience in global lifecycle management and external partner oversight is highly preferred.
• Strong collaboration across functions and excellent English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive quality oversight for assigned products across development and lifecycle management.
• Contribute to product development, transfers, process validation, and post-approval changes.
• Review and assess quality documentation, including Design Control Documentation and risk assessments.
• Oversee external manufacturing sites, laboratories, and partners; support regulatory and CMC documentation reviews.
• Enable inspection readiness through documentation, traceability, and product knowledge.
• Engage in quality risk assessments, CAPAs, and resolution of quality issues.
• Lead quality activities and deliverables; support governance decisions with quality input.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and adherence to quality systems and regulatory requirements.

Skills

English proficiency

Quality management

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Master's/PhD in Life Sciences or Engineering

Tools

ASQ Certified Quality Auditor

Lean Six Sigma

Job description

Whether it's the unique breadth of our integrated offering that covers Injectable Aesthetics, Dermatological Skincare and Therapeutic Dermatology products; or our commitment to recognizing and rewarding people for the contribution they make - working here isn't like anywhere else. At Galderma, we actively give our teams reasons to believe in our ambition to become the leading dermatology company in the world. With us, you have the ultimate opportunity to gain new and challenging work experiences and create an unparalleled, direct impact. We have established a Global Capability Center in Barcelona to support Galderma’s growth trajectory and our global commercial and functional teams. Located in the upscale Eixample district in the heart of the city, it offers the possibility for professional career development through exposure to global and cross-functional projects.

Job Title: Product Quality Manager, Medical Devices

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Join Galderma's Global Product Quality Team and play a key role in shaping quality across a portfolio of medical device and combination products. Working across the entire product lifecycle, from development and technical transfer to commercialization and post-launch activities, you will help ensure products meet the highest quality and regulatory standards while supporting successful delivery of key business objectives.

As a visible partner to global teams, you will provide quality guidance, drive inspection readiness and compliance, and help strengthen the global governance framework. This is an opportunity to act as a trusted advisor, influence quality strategy on a global scale, and make a meaningful impact across multiple products, projects, and stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive quality oversight for assigned products and projects across development and lifecycle management activities.
• Contribute to product development, technical transfers, process validation, method transfers, and post-approval changes.
• Review and assess quality documentation, with a focus on Design Control Documentation, technical transfer protocols, reports, risk assessments, and related records.
• Support quality oversight of external manufacturing sites, laboratories, and business partners, and contribute to regulatory and CMC documentation reviews as applicable.
• Enable inspection readiness by maintaining appropriate documentation, traceability, and product knowledge throughout the product lifecycle.
• Engage in quality risk assessments, investigations, CAPAs, and resolution of quality issues.
• Direct timely completion of assigned deliverables, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and perform activities in accordance with applicable quality systems, regulatory requirements, and governance processes.
• Provide quality input and recommendations, lead assigned quality activities or workstreams as delegated, and support the preparation of quality assessments and documentation for governance decisions.

Skills & Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, or a related discipline, combined with in-depth knowledge of cGMP, MDR (EU) 2017/745, 21 CFR Part 820 GDP, ISO13485, ICH, and other relevant regulatory requirements governing sterile products/Medical Devices.
• 7+ Certification in Quality Management (e.g., ASQ Certified Quality Auditor) and/or Lean Six Sigma certification is considered an asset.
• Experience working in global lifecycle management and external partner oversight is highly preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and a willingness to take on new challenges.
• Full professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken, is required.

Galderma is the emerging pure-play dermatology category leader, present in approximately 90 countries. We deliver an innovative, science-based portfolio of premium flagship brands and services that span the full spectrum of the fast-growing dermatology market through Injectable Aesthetics, Dermatological Skincare and Therapeutic Dermatology. Since our foundation in 1981, we have dedicated our focus and passion to the human body's largest organ - the skin - meeting individual consumer and patient needs with superior outcomes in partnership with healthcare professionals. Because we understand that the skin we are in shapes our lives, we are advancing dermatology for every skin story.

For more information go to www.galderma.com/careers