Quality Senior Professional, Customer Compliance& QAAs

Lonza Group Ltd.; Hyderabad; Hybride; INR 1 200 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Relocation assistance

Benefits package

Résumé du poste

Lonza Group Ltd. in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a Quality Senior Professional for Customer Compliance & QAAs. This office-first role offers in-person collaboration with the option to work remotely up to 40% of the time, supporting global customer negotiations and QAA management.

The role demands strong negotiation, regulatory interpretation, and cross-functional coordination to ensure GMP compliance and contract adherence. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and families.

Qualifications

• Strong negotiation and communication of quality items.
• Ability to interpret regulatory requirements and contractual obligations.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management to ensure alignment.

Responsabilités

• Supports and executes timely negotiations with global customers to define, align, and finalize Customer QAAs for Lonza.
• Ensures GMP compliance and contractual requirements by maintaining up-to-date quality standards and procedures.
• Verifies that customer QAAs meet minimum Lonza QAA requirements.
• Serves as point of contact for internal stakeholders on all QAA-related matters.
• Coordinates with Legal, Quality, Operations, Commercial, and others to ensure consistency during implementation.
• Prepares and manages QAA updates including periodic reviews or withdrawal of QAAs.
• Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives within quality compliance processes.
• Analyzes workflows and proposes optimizations to increase efficiency and reduce turnaround times.
• Supports implementation of digital tools and lean management.
• Provides consistency between Lonza processes and QAAs.
• Collaborates with Global Quality and other sites to drive improvements and harmonize processes.

Connaissances

Negotiation

GMP compliance

QAA management

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder management

Quality systems

Outils

TrackWise

Description du poste

Quality Senior Professional, Customer Compliance & QAAs

Location: Hyderabad, India. This is an office‑first role. Working together in person supports close, real‑time collaboration and team alignment, enabling us to deliver our best work. You will work primarily in the office, with the flexibility to work remotely for 40% of your time (two days per week). The actual location of this job is in Hyderabad, India. Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates and their families, if needed.

Intro Summary of the Role

The QA Expert Compliance ensures that quality agreements (QAAs) and related processes meet regulatory, contractual, and organizational requirements. It involves directly supporting the quality negotiations with global customers, and alignment between internal stakeholders and customers. The position operates at a global support level while site specific additions and direct negotiations remain local.

What You Will Get

• An agile career and dynamic working culture.
• An inclusive and ethical workplace.
• Compensation programs that recognize high performance.
• A variety of benefits dependent on role and location. The full list of our global benefits can be found here: https://www.lonza.com/careers/benefits.

What You Will Do

• Supports and executes timely negotiations with global customers to define, align, and finalize Customer QAAs for LONZA.
• Ensures compliance with GMP and other relevant regulations as well as contractual requirements by maintaining up-to-date quality standards and procedures.
• Verifies that customer QAAs meet minimum LONZA QAA requirements.
• Serves as point of contact for internal stakeholders on all QAA-related matters.
• Coordinates with cross-functional teams, including Legal, Quality, Operations, Commercial, and others to ensure consistency during implementation.
• Preparation and managing QAA updates including periodic reviews or withdrawal of QAAs.
• Contributes to continuous improvement initiatives within quality compliance processes.
• Analyzes current workflows and proposes optimizations to increase efficiency and reduce turnaround times.
• Supports the implementation of (digital) tools and automation following lean management.
• Provide the consistency between Lonza internal processes and commitments in QAAs.
• Collaborates with Global Quality and other sites to drive improvements, harmonize processes, and increase efficiency.
• Provides expert guidance and knowledge sharing across the organization to strengthen compliance awareness.
• Serves as a subject matter expert on compliance-related topics for the business unit and other sites.
• Manages TrackWise Records as required.
• Supports as a compliance representative in customer audits, inspections, and quality-related discussions as required.

What we are looking for

• Superior negotiation and communication of quality related items.
• Excellent problem solving, decision making and organisational skills.
• Strong analytical capabilities to assess complex regulatory requirements and interpret contractual obligations.
• Strong cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Clear setting of priorities.
• Clear customer focus (internal/external).
• Excellent English skills (spoken and written).

About Lonza

At Lonza, our people are our greatest strength. With 30+ sites across five continents, our globally connected teams work together every day to manufacture the medicines of tomorrow. Our core values of Collaboration, Accountability, Excellence, Passion and Integrity reflect who we are and how we work together. Everyone’s ideas, big or small, have the potential to improve millions of lives, and that’s the kind of work we want you to be part of. Innovation thrives when people from all backgrounds bring their unique perspectives to the table. At Lonza, we value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you’re ready to help turn our customers’ breakthrough ideas into viable therapies, we look forward to welcoming you on board.

Every day, our teams across the world work together to turn scientific breakthroughs into life-changing medicines that reach up to 100 million patients a year. Lonza is a place where people can make a unique impact, grow their careers and belong.

You will feel at home at Lonza if you:

• Take ownership, step forward, and enjoy meaningful responsibility.
• Love solving problems and thrive in a complex, fast-moving environment.
• Are curious, always looking to learn and improve.
• Work collaboratively, contributing to something bigger than yourself.
• Are motivated to make a difference through work that impacts customers and their patients.

Why Lonza

We are a place of unique opportunity, where your ideas, expertise and ambition can make a real difference. Here, you will have the freedom to grow, the support to succeed and the chance to contribute to work that matters. We are the makers of the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us. Be you.