Healthcare QA Associate Mgr

United Parcel Service of America, Inc.; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global logistics company is seeking a Healthcare Quality Assurance (QA) Associate Manager in London. The role requires ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, managing communications with various stakeholders, and minimizing risks related to healthcare product transport. Ideal candidates should have experience in quality assurance and managing audits. This position supports the implementation of a uniform Healthcare Quality System across operations.

Qualifications

• Must ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Ability to manage internal, client, and agency audits.
• Must manage communications with various stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure uniform implementation of the Healthcare Quality System.
• Minimize risks associated with transporting healthcare products.
• Manage communications with internal groups and clients.

Job description

The Healthcare Quality Assurance (QA) Associate Manager (who may also be the Responsible Person) is responsible for ensuring compliance with the regulatory requirements of the applicable national regulatory authority and to ensure uniform interpretation and implementation of the Healthcare Quality System across geographically distributed operations. He/She manages communications with internal groups (e.g. Business Development [BD], Operations, etc.), clients, and various federal and local agencies and maintaining procedures and documents to ensure compliance to the applicable regulatory requirements. The Healthcare QA Associate Manager minimizes risks associated with transporting healthcare products, manages internal, client, and agency audits, and ensures that the validation of facilities, systems, and supporting equipment are completed as applicable. This position manages supervisors.

For Europe only: The Responsible Person is designated by the wholesale distributor, European Union (EU) Good Distribution Practices (GDP) license holder (Article 79 of EU Directive 2001/83/EC). This position further describes in EU GDP of Medicinal Products for Human Use (2013/C 343/01) of 05 November 2013. United Parcel Service (UPS) Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) has given the Responsible Person defined authority, resources, and responsibility needed to fulfill his/her duties. This position represents UPS SCS towards Healthcare Inspectorate for wholesale distribution activities of medicinal products. The Responsible Person carries out duties in such a way as to ensure the wholesale distributor can demonstrate GDP compliance and public service obligations are met. He/She may delegate his/her duties (not responsibilities) when absent and keeps appropriate records relating to any delegation. The Responsible Person fulfills his/her responsibilities personally and is continuously contactable.

In order to ensure the Quality System is correctly implemented and maintained the duties of the Responsible Person are as follows:

Note: Nomination of Responsible Person is subjected to approval from Ministry of Health.