Corporate Quality Auditing Specialist - Temporary

Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.; Parma; In loco; EUR 40.000 - 60.000; Part-time

Descrizione del lavoro

A leading pharmaceutical company in Parma is seeking a Corporate Quality Auditing Specialist on a temporary basis. The role involves conducting GxP audits, ensuring supplier qualifications, and drafting quality agreements. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in quality management, preferably in pharmaceuticals, and be fluent in English. The company offers a dynamic environment focused on employee development and work-life balance.

Servizi

Continuous training

Flexible working approach

Support in relocation

Tax assistance service

Competenze

• 5+ years in quality management, with 2+ years in auditing roles.
• Experience in sterile medicinal product manufacturing or validation.
• Good spoken and written English; Italian or Spanish is a plus.

Mansioni

• Conduct GxP audits of contractors autonomously.
• Draft quality agreements and ensure supplier qualification.
• Monitor supplier quality performance and implement corrective actions.

Conoscenze

Quality management

Auditing

Customer orientation

Goal orientation

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Strumenti

ISO 9001:2015

GMP

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Corporate Quality Auditing Specialist - Temporary

Date: 20 Aug 2025

Department: Corporate Quality Operations

Business Area: Industrial Operations & HSE

Job Type: Direct Employee

Contract Type: Temporary

Location:

Parma, IT

About us

Based in Parma, Italy, Chiesi is an international research-focused pharmaceutical and healthcare group with over 85 years’ experience, operating in 30 countries with more than 6,000 employees (Chiesi Group). To achieve its mission of improving people’s quality of life by acting responsibly towards society and the environment, the Group researches, develops and markets innovative drugs in its main therapeutic areas: Discover more here

We are proud to be the largest global pharmaceutical group to be awarded B Corp Certification, a recognition of high social and environmental standards. We are a reliable company that adopts and promotes a transparent and ethical behavior at all levels.

We believe that the success of Chiesi is built and shaped by our people and our strong set of shared Values and Behaviors. Our people make a critical difference to our success, which is why it is vital that we attract and retain the right talent who will continue to enrich our culture by living and breathing our values and behaviors.

We are committed to embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. In fact, we are a global family made up of different cultures, different genders, generations, ethnicities, abilities, sexual identities and many other enriching diversities.

Chiesi Global Manufacturing Division

Chiesi Group has three production plants:

Parma (Italy), the strategic hub for the production and distribution of our products, serving as an international supply center with exports to over 80 countries. Here, solid medicines such as tablets and dry powders for inhalers, solutions and suspensions for inhalations and sterile suspension vials for endotracheal administration are produced.

In 2024, a new Biotech Centre of Excellence has launched in Parma. The new facility is dedicated to developing and producing monoclonal antibodies, enzymes, and other proteins.

Blois-La Chaussée Saint Victor plant (France), a center of excellence specializing in the production of Dry Powder Inhalers and Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs). The site manages direct distribution to customers in the French market and exports to other markets, effectively meeting both local and international needs.

Santana de Parnaiba (Brazil), specialized in the production of pressurized solutions and suspensions for inhalation therapy (pMDIs). Additionally, it has an area dedicated to nasal sprays for the European market. Santana produces pressurised solutions and suspensions for inhalation therapy (MDI).

In 2025, a new investment in Nerviano (Italy) has been announced with the construction of a new facility which will be primarily dedicated to manufacturing carbon minimal inhalers (reinforcing the company’s commitment to both patients’ health and sustainable healthcare solutions), dry powder inhalers and sterile biological products.

Who we are looking for

Purpose

We are looking for a Corporate Quality Auditing Specialist to join our corporate team on a temporary contract.

The collaborator will be specialized in:
- Carrying out GxP/ISO audits of GMD contractors in full authonomy,
- Drafting quality agreements,
- Ensuring supplier qualification and validation according to GxP requirements and Chiesi quality standards,
- Ensuring the quality of global suppliers and monitoring their quality performance.

Main Responsibilities

Within the scope of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Good distribution practices (GDP) and ISO 9001:2015 standards:

• Collaborates in internal/external audit activities at every stage:
  • Planning and updates
  • Collaborates in the issuing of annual audit plans (internal/external)
  • Preparation (material collection, procedures, other official documentation)
  • Drafting of the Audit agenda
  • Contacts to be made with the supplier to be inspected
  • Conducting the audit in Europe and Worldwide
  • Drafting of the report in English
  • Check proposed corrective actions
  • Keeps the progress of audits updated, monitoring the progress and closure of corrective action
  • Verification of the effectiveness of corrective actions
  • Draws up synoptic tables on the general situation of the Audits (useful activity also for management review)
• Participates in the drafting of the main sector operating procedures, defining their structure, requirements, etc.
  • Keeps up-to-date the procedures related to GxP suppliers and service providers qualification, validation, maintenance, and quality risk management, and related instruction, template, user guide
  • Keeps up-to-date the procedure related to GxP audits and related instruction, template, user guide
  • Participates to the review of procedure and documentation related to the supply chain map, quality agreement
• Participates in investigations into non-conformities of materials in acceptance
  • Maintains contact with the internal representative and the global supplier in order to promote the removal of non-conformities, which caused the problems with the material supplied, and the implementation of the necessary corrective actions
• Participates in evaluations of change control in relation with suppliers, CMO, and GxP service providers
  • Evaluates the impacts on the qualification of GxP suppliers, CMO, services providers, and related GxP audits, quality agreement, validation report, and supporting data, information and SOPs of the unit. Insert the change impact in the QMS
  • Follow and execute the pre and post-implementation actions supporting the changes
• Participates in maintenance of quality statements from GxP suppliers
  • Keeps up-to-date the quality statements from global GxP suppliers (TSE/BSE, …)
  • Provides information to regulatory compliance for the issue of product statement required for the dossier
• Conducts component supplier validation which includes:
  • A preliminary supplier evaluation phase (minimum requirements)
  • The evaluation of product quality requirements in collaboration with other company functions involved with DLC/Procurement
  • Drafting of the validation report for suppliers of Raw Materials and Packaging Materials.
  • Periodic drafting of the "Table of Validated Suppliers of Raw Materials and Packaging Materials"
• Qualitatively evaluate Contractors:
  • Collaborates with QA/AUH to calculate the quality factors of the Suppliers: in collaboration with the DLC/Procurement, calculates the quality score which allows you to express a judgment on the reliability of each Supplier of material or service and of the external contractors

Experience Required

• At least 5 years in quality management areas, preferably with 2+ years in auditing roles.
  Preferred:
• Experience in the manufacturing process of sterile medicinal products or inhalation products, and/or in the validation activities for the production of medicinal products.
• Previous activity as GMP or ISO Auditor in pharmaceutical companies.
• Previous activity as supplier quality assurance

Education

Languages

Good spoken and written English.
Italian, French or Spanish will constitute an important integrative skill.

Soft Skills

• Customer orientation
• Goal orientation

Technical Skills

• Knowledge of national and international pharmaceutical legislation (in particular national laws (e.g. DL 219), European and American directives (e.g.: Eudralex VoL.IV, 21CFR part 210,211)
• ISO 9001:2015 regulation
• Expertise on pharmaceutical products, sterile products manufacturing and control, biotechnology products.

Preferred Skills

• Auditor qualification or QP certification.
• ISO 9001:2015 Corporate Quality Systems evaluator qualification
• GMP Auditor qualifications or certificates of participation in courses in the sector issued by specialized companies (APIC, PDA, ECA, etc.)

What we offer

You would join a dynamic, fast-growing, challenging and friendly environment.
In Chiesi we firmly believe that our people are our most valuable asset, that is why we invest in continuous training, learning and development. Therefore, we strive to continuously promote and satisfy development needs, paying particular attention to the quality of our working environment and to collective well-being.
We want our people to come to work happy every day, and we know how important it is to find the right work-life balance in order to be able to give our best. That is why we offer flexible working approach, remote working, support in the relocation process, tax assistance service for foreign colleagues and many other people-care services.

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