Operational Quality Officer

GlaxoSmithKline; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

GSK Saudi Arabia is looking for an Operational Quality Officer to ensure compliance with industry standards while fostering a quality culture. This role includes responsibilities such as managing quality issues, conducting audits, and ensuring adherence to safety standards. Join a global biopharma company committed to impacting health through science and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years in a pharmaceutical environment with expertise in quality, GMP, and EHS standards.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to collaborate effectively with site staff.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with SFDA, QMS, cGMP, and cGxP standards.
• Maintain presence across areas of responsibility and support initial management of quality issues.
• Perform spot-checks across production and laboratory areas to ensure compliance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Documentation skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Science or Pharmacy

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Site Name: Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
Posted Date: Jul 7 2025

GSK Saudi Arabia is committed to supporting Vision 2030 and the Saudi Arabian National Agenda including Saudization in line with the hiring and the training and development of Saudi National capability.

As an Operational Quality Officer, ensure compliance with SFDA, QMS, cGMP, and cGxP standards through independent oversight of GxP processes. Support product release through quality review while fostering a proactive quality culture that drives continuous improvement and enables early identification and resolution of quality issues.

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career; these responsibilities include some of the following:

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure proper archiving and destruction of batch records and retention of samples in compliance with EHS and quality standards.
• Maintain presence across areas of responsibility and support initial management of quality issues.
• Provide guidance during GMP activities to proactively detect potential quality issues.
• Perform spot-checks across production and laboratory areas to ensure compliance with quality standards.
• Review documentation and records to ensure adherence to Good Documentation Practice (GDP).
• Conduct management monitoring audits and oversee timely completion of actions/CAPAs.
• Manage deviations, supplier/customer complaints, and OOS events, ensuring CAPA implementation and closure within required timelines.
• Adhere to Safety, Quality, and GPS standards while sustaining relevant QA & EHS KPIs.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Minimum of 2 years in a pharmaceutical environment with expertise in quality, GMP, and EHS standards.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and strong documentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Pharmacy.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to collaborate effectively with site staff.
• Moderate technical expertise and decision-making autonomy.

Closing Date:14 July 2025

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves – feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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