Quality Assurance Specialist

Novartis; Zaragoza; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A global pharmaceutical company in Zaragoza is seeking a Compliance Specialist to maintain and develop quality systems strategy and ensure compliance with regulatory and GMP requirements. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy or an MSc in Pharmaceutical Industry, and at least 2 years of experience in GxP operations, including 1 year in Quality Assurance. Excellent communication skills in both English and Spanish are essential for this role.

Formación

• Minimum 2 years of experience in GxP (Bio)pharmaceutical or API manufacturing operations.
• At least 1 year of experience in a Quality Assurance role.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate to ensure compliance with regulatory and GMP standards.
• Support audit and inspection management.
• Oversight of Quality Systems and Regulatory Compliance.
• Document and investigate deviations from established procedures.

Conocimientos

Excellent communication skills

Fluent English

Fluent Spanish

Educación

Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy or MSc in Pharmaceutical Industry

Descripción del empleo

Job Description Summary

The Compliance specialist is responsible to collaborate with relevant manager for maintaining and developing the quality systems strategy policies processes standards and procedures to ensure the site complies with regulatory and GMP compliance requirements as described by authorities and by Novartis / Adacap guidelines and quality manual.

The function supports the manager to guarantee that global procedures are implemented in the sites quality systems and challenges the system for further improvement. The function supports in the sites inspection readiness and is a key contributor of the inspection management program.

Major accountabilities

• Collaborates to ensure that the sites quality system is maintained compliant to regulatory and GMP compliance requirements.
• Collaborates in the management of the sites quality systems documentation and reviews defines updates and approves (when agreed with the quality management) site specific quality systems documents.
• Provides oversight for the implementation of Quality Systems and Regulatory Compliance including management of Non conformances CAPAs Effectiveness Checks Change Controls Training Inspections and Audit readiness Technical complaints Risk Assessments and remediation Annual Product Quality review self-assessments KPIs and Quality Management Review.
• Support the manager in the design and oversight of strategic site quality system and works in collaboration with site functions to define written procedures including but not limited to monitor and control of the manufacturing environment training document control / record retention deviations / CAPA investigations and monitoring compliance with all requirements of good manufacturing practice.
• Support the quality management to develop and deliver a robust overall quality system strategy and ultimate plan resulting in a fully compliant quality system infrastructure with respect to procedures and processes.
• Provides oversight for audit and inspection management inspection strategies preparation interactions and responses.
• Support the quality team in the health authority inspection preparation and ensures key support during MOH and Novartis global audits.
• Develop Health Authority communications including written correspondence responses to inspection observations presentations and verbal communication.
• Works with quality and compliance team to ensure robust quality systems are implemented and sustained including deviation / CAPA Management : Ensures all deviations from established procedures are appropriately documented and investigated to determine and fix root cause.
• Support escalation of Quality / cGMP issues and deficiencies to the Site QA Head and support global escalation process if needed. Support associates within the Novartis network incase of Health Authority Notifications (s.a. FAR Rapid alert recalls)

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy or MSc in Pharmaceutical Industry.
• 2 years of experience in a GxP (Bio)pharmaceutical or API manufacturing operations up of which 1 years of experience in a Quality Assurance role.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Fluent English and Spanish written and spoken.

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Skills Desired

Invoicing,Information Technology Sales,IT Support,Audio Visual,Database Administration

Key Skills

Invoicing,Information Technology Sales,IT Support,Audio Visual,Database Administration

Employment Type

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience

Experience : years

Vacancy

Vacancy : 1