UK Operational Compliance Manager

Panthera Clinic; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

Annual Leave Buy and Sell Scheme

Life insurance - 3x annual salary

Healthcare cash plan

Employee Assistant Programme

Enhanced sickness and family policies

Enhanced Pension Scheme - 7%

Annual Self Care Day

Cycle to Work Scheme

EV Scheme

Job summary

Panthera Biopartners is seeking a UK Operational Compliance Manager to oversee regulatory compliance across multiple UK sites, ensuring adherence to GxP, ICH-GCP and internal policies. You will drive the Quality Management System, support audits, monitor CAPAs and provide guidance to site teams, working with operations leadership and study teams.

The role involves cross-site responsibilities, ensuring inspection readiness and data-driven reporting to senior leadership, with a focus on continuous

Qualifications

• GxP, ICH-GCP and regulatory standards familiarity.
• Audit readiness and CAPA experience beneficial.
• Quality management system oversight.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and maintain the operational quality and compliance framework for UK sites.
• Conduct regular Operational Compliance Checks and produce reports with findings.
• Create quarterly compliance plans and monthly performance reports for senior leadership.
• Identify compliance metrics and present data insights to stakeholders.
• Ensure sites remain inspection ready at all times.
• Lead and support preparation for internal audits, sponsor audits and regulatory inspections.
• Provide site readiness assessments and ensure corrective actions are implemented prior to inspection.
• Support audit responses and follow-up actions.

Job description

An exciting and rare opportunity has now become available for a UK Operational Compliance Manager to join our Head Office Team!

Reporting to the Site Operations Director, The UK Operational Compliance Manager (OCM) is responsible for overseeing operational compliance across multiple UK sites, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, internal policies and quality standards

The role supports operational efficiency, process compliance and continuous improvement by providing oversight, mentoring, and guidance to site teams. The OCM ensures effective implementation of the Quality Management System (QMS), supports audit readiness, monitors quality issues (QIs), and drives corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) to resolution.

The post holder will work closely with Site Operations leadership, functional heads, and study teams to maintain compliance with GxP, ICH-GCP, and applicable regulatory standards.

There will be a requirement to work across local Panthera sites as required from time to time.

Key Benefits Package

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing with length of service
• Annual Leave Buy and Sell Scheme
• Life insurance - 3x annual salary
• Employee healthcare cash plan
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Enhanced sickness and family friendly policies
• Enhanced Pension Scheme - 7%
• Annual Self Care Day
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EV Scheme

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain the operational quality and compliance framework across UK sites.
• Conduct regular Operational Compliance Checks across all sites and produce reports with findings and recommendations.
• Produce quarterly operational compliance plans and monthly performance reports for senior leadership.
• Identify compliance performance metrics and present meaningful data insights to stakeholders.
• Ensure sites remain inspection ready at all times.
• Lead and support preparation for internal audits, sponsor audits, and regulatory inspections.
• Provide site readiness assessments and ensure corrective actions are implemented prior to inspection.
• Support audit responses and follow-up actions.

Panthera Biopartners is an equal opportunity employer. Panthera will consider all qualified applicants for employment without discrimination on grounds of disability, sex or sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity leave status, race or national or ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, gender identity or re-assignment, marital or civil partnership status, protected veteran status (if applicable) or any other characteristic protected by law. Panthera only employs individuals with the right to work in the country where the role is advertised.

Panthera Biopartners

Panthera is an independent Site Management Organisation helping pharmaceutical and contract research organisations find the right patient, for the right trial, at the right time. The Panthera team is run by a world-class team of experts with more than a hundred years of clinical research experience.

We put the patient at the heart of everything we do, to ensure the best experience and environment for volunteers, participants, and employees. We want people who are swift to action, confident to lead, willing to collaborate and curious about what science can do.