Quality Control Associate Director H / F

LHH Recruitment Solutions is a specialized talent recruitment agency. We provide tailored services to help companies find the best candidates for their staffing needs.

With deep industry expertise and a commitment to excellence, LHH RS is a trusted partner in Switzerland for many years.

Our client is a pharmaceutical company based in Canton de Neuchâtel.

Quality Control Associate Director H / F

• Guide, mentor & develop your teams to achieve an environment of personal accountability and trust.
• Align with the site to set the strategy & priorities for your teams, ensuring we are working on the right things.
• Manage your teams by setting & tracking goals and tasks. Continuously improve processes to ensure we are doing it right.
• Ensure proactive priority and daily activity management for team & activities (planning, communication, team organization, control, checking of the defined targets).
• Ensure department processes are sufficiently defined and documented. KPIs are implemented & monitored, actions are prioritized to ensure KPIs are on target.
• Communicate proactively, consistently, and collaboratively with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Use risk management & scientific assessments to ensure the depth and breadth of resource allocation (people, duration, documentation, etc.) is commensurate to the risk, impact, and ROI.
• Keep up to date with current industry best practices that may give an operational or strategic advantage to the company.
• Accountable for the department budget (OPEX and CAPEX).
• Responsible for the on-time delivery of all QC activities, to ensure overall on-time delivery to clients.
• Ensure that out-of-specifications and deviations are appropriately investigated and resolved.
• Identify and present business cases to continuously improve, increase capabilities & capacities, to better meet clients' needs, mitigate compliance risks, etc.
• Identify and coordinate continuous improvement & process optimizations within QC and across the site.
• Propose solutions to client requests, especially where there is a conflict with other department activities.
• Immediately escalate client concerns to the project manager and site head.
• Plan, execute, and track all compliance activities (GxP and other regulatory requirements).
• Manage department topics during audits & inspections (regulatory, compliance, client, and corporate).
• Define processes and manage documentation (SOPs, Job Descriptions, etc.), ensuring alignment with corporate policies, regulatory requirements, and best practices.
• Define training curriculum and ensure on-time completion of training.
• Follow up, coordinate, and manage CAPAs, deviations, and Change Controls.
• Lead complex deviation investigations, change management, and critical quality complaint resolution activities.

Profile :

• University Degree in scientific field
• 10 years experience in a pharmaceutical company or other related GMP industry.