QA Operations Supervisor

Viatris; Galway; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Viatris seeks a QA Operations Supervisor to lead the local QA team in Galway, Ireland, ensuring GMP compliance and quality across manufacturing activities. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to implement process improvements and support regulatory inspections.

The ideal candidate will have strong attention to detail, excellent communication, and the ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment, with flexible shift capabilities as required.

Qualifications

• Must have excellent attention to detail and strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with good organisation.
• Ability to manage priorities and work on own initiative.
• Experience with various IT systems and strong MS Office knowledge.
• Ability to work different shift patterns when required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the local medical team and align with local/regional medical strategy.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive patient and business impact.
• Conduct GMP checks and monitor factors affecting product quality.
• Review manufacturing interventions and EM monitoring.
• Drive quality awareness and support GMP improvements.
• Assist in facility audits and Health Authority inspections.
• Support QA training and investigation activities as needed.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Prioritisation & initiative

MS Office

Job description

Mylan Teoranta Viatris is a global healthcare company uniquely positioned to bridge the traditional divide between generics and brands, combining the best of both to more holistically address healthcare needs globally. With a mission to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, we provide access at scale, currently supplying high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients around the world annually and touching all of life's moments, from birth to the end of life, acute conditions to chronic diseases. We have been included on number of award lists that demonstrate the impact we are making. Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach, and better access to treatment. For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing Every day

We rise to the challenge to make a difference, and here’s how the QA Operations Supervisor role will make an impact:

• This position will lead the local medical team, ensure alignment and execution of local/regional medical strategy, collaborate with cross-functional teams and influence key healthcare stakeholders to drive meaningful impact for patients and the business.
• Conduct checks and reviews of manufacturing operations to ensure GMP compliance and monitor factors which may affect product quality. This includes but not limited to monitoring of Aseptic Practice and techniques during assembly/ machine set up/ filling activities and adherence to procedures.
• Review handling of interventions for the manufacturing process, and EM monitoring.
• Collaborate with manufacturing and engineering functions to drive quality awareness, facilitate Good Manufacturing Practices and implement improvements to ensure product quality.
• undefined Monitor key quality indicators within the manufacturing processes to identify unexpected events and preventative measures in order to ensure continued product quality.
• Perform spot checks of logbooks and manufacturing documentation to ensure GDocP compliance.
• Assist in facility audits or Health Authority Inspections.
• Assist in the delivery of quality related training applicable to your job role and continuous improvement projects.
• Support event reporting and investigations applicable to the manufacturing area.
• End of shift summary with manager and or Quality director.
• Perform QA review of executed manufacturing batch records and associated quality control testing (Chemistry and Microbiology).
• Support processing of documentation to QP for final disposition review where required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills, and experiences:

• Must have excellent attention to detail, strong communication (oral & written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage priorities and work on ones own initiative.
• Experience of working with various IT systems and software packages with strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.).
• Ability to work different shift patterns when required.

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits, and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives, and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare, not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity, and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Viatris is a global healthcare company formed in 2020 through the combination of Mylan and Upjohn, a legacy division of Pfizer. By integrating the strengths of these two companies, including our global workforce, we aim to deliver increased access to affordable, quality medicines for patients worldwide, regardless of geography or circumstance. We believe in healthcare as it should be – empowering people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life. Because of our unwavering belief that better access leads to better health, we leverage our best-in-class manufacturing and scientific expertise and proven commercial capabilities to bring quality medicines to patients when and where they need them.