Associate Quality Assurance Specialist

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Retirement savings plan

Flexible paid vacation

Job summary

Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Maidstone, United Kingdom seeks a Quality Compliance Manager to support the implementation of the Quality Systems at the KSP facility and contractor sites.

You will manage CAPA, deviations, change control, supplier and customer complaints, QRM and root cause analysis, and training within the QMS. You will liaise with global process owners to ensure consistency in the QMS across sites and functions, collate QMS metrics and participate in QMR meetings, ensuring

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or a related industry
• Experience in GMP, GACP and GDP within a quality environment
• Ability to prepare, review and update QMS documentation
• Collaboration with global process owners to ensure QMS consistency
• Strong communication and training skills for QA teams

Responsibilities

• Prepares, reviews, updates and completes QMS processes
• Ensures training records are kept up to date
• Ensure all complaints are documented, investigated and closed out within guidelines
• Strives to ensure quality events are closed within timeframes and manages events across KSP
• Authors and edits SOPs associated with the QMS at KSP
• Create training packages for QMS processes at KSP

Skills

Office IT skills

Written and verbal communication

Job description

To assist the Quality Compliance Manager and other QA team members in the implementation of the Quality Systems at the KSP facility and associated contractor sites., Managing and maintaining of the quality management system:

Managing and maintaining of the quality management system:

• Corrective and preventative actions (CAPA)
• Deviations
• Change control
• Supplier and customer complaints
• Quality risk management (QRM)
• Leading root cause analysis (RCA)
• Liaising with global process owners to ensure consistency in the QMS between sites and functions
• Training in the QMS
• Collating QMS metrics and KPI data
• Presenting QMS data at quality management review (QMR) meetings

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Prepares, reviews, updates and completes QMS processes
• Ensures training records are kept up to date
• Carries out their work in a way that will not adversely affect their own, or others' health, safety and security or the environment and reports any shortcomings in GW arrangements
• Ensure all complaints are documented, investigated and closed out within agreed guidelines. That issues are escalated as required
• Strives to ensure quality events are closed within agreed timeframes and facilitates management of quality events across KSP
• Assisting in the assembly of the product quality review
• Ensuring that regulatory, marketing partners due diligence and other audit/inspections performed at GW are supported with efficient document retrieval and supply of the technical information
• Assist in the creation of technical agreements, supplier agreements and quality risk assessments
• Participate or leads projects to deliver improvements in productivity and efficiency in all areas relevant to complaints
• Authors and reviews all required quality documents
• Creates training packages for QMS process at KSP
• Authors and edits SOPs associated with the QMS at KSP

Experience:

• Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or a related industry
• Experience working within a quality environment, including experience in GMP, GACP and GDP

Skills:

• Working knowledge of office IT packages
• High level of written and verbal communication skills

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a global biopharma company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases - often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines, including leading therapies for sleep disorders and epilepsy, and a growing portfolio of cancer treatments. Our patient-focused and science-driven approach powers pioneering research and development advancements across our robust pipeline of innovative therapeutics in oncology and neuroscience. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with research and development laboratories, manufacturing facilities and employees in multiple countries committed to serving patients worldwide. Please visit for more information.

The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation. For more information on our Benefits offerings please click here: https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits