Quality Control Direct Director

GSK; Italia; On-site; EUR 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK seeks a Quality Control Direct Director to oversee QC operations in the Parma Network Laboratory and lead analytical testing for the Parma site and Biopharm network. Responsibilities include planning resources, ensuring release, stability, validation, transfer testing, and coordination with R&D, Global QC, and manufacturing to support new product introductions.

This role leads a team of lab leaders, ensures ALCOA data practices, and drives continuous improvement, audits, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Proven success leading a technical team across multiple functions.
• Experience building and developing teams in a QC environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication in cross-functional settings.
• Ability to interact with peers and senior personnel in a multidisciplinary setting.
• Capable of prioritizing actions to optimize laboratory outcomes.
• Familiar with GMPs, NIH, ICH, FDA regulatory requirements for analytical testing.

Responsibilities

• Oversee Analytical and Microbiology testing and release activities.
• Coordinate analytical testing support for Parma site and Biopharm network, balancing priorities.
• Provide technical guidance to laboratory supervisors and analysts.
• Lead a team of lab leaders to ensure data generation and review per ALCOA.
• Ensure timely laboratory and manufacturing investigations and CAPA closure.
• Promote technical and professional growth within the QC team.
• Ensure compliance with all SOPs, safety procedures and regulatory expectations.
• Support product filings with regulatory agencies (INDs, BLA, MAA).
• Represent QC in projects and committees within GSK.

Skills

Leadership

Team development

Communication skills

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Prioritization

GMP/Regulatory knowledge

Tools

Laboratory information systems

Electronic lab notebooks

Laboratory automation

Job description

Quality Control Direct Director

Business Introduction

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Position Summary

This position oversees Quality Control operations in the Parma Network Laboratory and leads the delivery of analytical testing for the Parma site and the wider Biopharm network. Essential functions include planning and prioritizing resources and laboratory capacity to meet release, stability, validation, analytical method transfer, and development testing requirements for internally and externally manufactured products. The role ensures alignment with the Biopharm analytical network strategy, including effective allocation of testing across Parma and network laboratories, support for new product introductions, and reduction of reliance on third‑party testing where appropriate.

This position is responsible for the dynamic analytical strategy and technical requirements for assay transfer, digital transformation, and collaboration with R&D, Global QC, manufacturing sites, external partners, and clients. Other functions include laboratory investigations related to product testing and compiling reports in support of regulatory filings. The incumbent reviews and releases test results and ensures full cGMP compliance in laboratory operations. The QC Director also reviews regulatory submissions, including INDs, BLAs, and MAAs, and supports internal and external audits, client audits, and regulatory inspections.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Analytical and Microbiology testing and release (RM, components, IP, FP), Laboratory investigation and CAPA, Stability testing, Sample and retain management, Microbiology testing, EM and utilities monitoring, and Incoming materials testing.
• Lead and coordinate analytical testing support for the Parma site and the Biopharm network, including release, stability, validation, analytical method transfer, and new-product-introduction testing, while balancing network priorities, laboratory capacity, testing readiness, and supply continuity.
• Provides in depth technical and scientific advice and guidance to laboratory supervisors and analysts in the Quality Control Laboratory and Operations.
• Leads and empowers a team of lab leaders to ensure the laboratory is a data factory with analysts and systems that support the sampling, testing, and generation and review of data per ALCOA principles.
• Ensures that departmental laboratory and manufacturing related investigations are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensures that the Quality Control team continues to grow technically and professionally; encourages their development efforts toward excellence and a higher degree of proficiency.
• Provides leadership by ensuring compliance of the department with laws, regulations, guidelines, procedures, and practices governing analytic Quality Control testing, including the departmental, and company Standard Operating Procedures, and safety procedures.
• Ensures that processes are in place to ensure that records and technical data were accurately maintained and results well documented.
• Represents the Quality Control department and departmental functions on projects/committees within GSK.
• Provide support of product filings with regulatory agencies (IND, BLA MAA etc)

Qualifications/Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success leading a team comprised of varying levels of technical expertise and functions.
• Demonstrated success developing teams.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to interact with peers, subordinate and senior personnel in multidisciplinary environment including development, engineering, facility operations, validation, production and QA.
• Able to prioritise and decide appropriate course of actions. Effective at implementing decision.
• Fully versed in GMP's, NIH, ICH Guidelines, FDA and other regulatory agency requirements for validation and operations of analytical and stability functions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting new product introductions, method transfers or technology implementations.
• Experience with laboratory information systems, electronic lab notebooks or laboratory automation.
• Strong track record in driving continuous improvement and operational excellence in labs.
• Experience managing budgets, resource planning and recruitment for laboratory functio