Our client is a multiple award-winning and rapidly growing international pharmaceutical company with a highly specialised and successful business model.
The company acquires established, trusted pharmaceutical brands and original medicines from global pharmaceutical manufacturers and takes over their long-term commercialisation, regulatory maintenance, quality oversight and global supply.
Rather than focusing primarily on the development of new medicines, the business model is built around acquiring mature pharmaceutical products and managing them throughout the remainder of their lifecycle. This allows large pharmaceutical companies to focus on their core innovation pipelines while ensuring that established medicines remain reliably available to patients worldwide.
Over the past two decades, the company has developed into one of the leading international players in this specialised pharmaceutical segment and continues to expand its global product portfolio.
To support this continued growth, we are currently looking for an experienced:
In this key leadership position, you will take responsibility for a specialised Quality Operations team and play an important role in ensuring the quality and regulatory compliance of an international pharmaceutical product portfolio.
Your responsibilities will include:
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Leading, developing and mentoring the Quality Operations team, providing strategic direction and ensuring the successful execution of departmental objectives.
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Organising, prioritising and allocating activities across the team while fostering effective collaboration with internal stakeholders and cross-functional departments.
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Overseeing quality-related activities involving external manufacturers, suppliers and business partners.
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Acting as the primary escalation point for critical product quality topics and complex quality-related issues.
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Taking end-to-end responsibility for the management of market complaints, product claims, recalls, quality alerts and other product-related quality issues throughout the product lifecycle.
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Ensuring the timely preparation and oversight of Product Quality Reviews (PQRs) in accordance with applicable regulatory and internal requirements.
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Overseeing product stability programmes as well as the identification, qualification and supply of reference standards.
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Monitoring and analysing product quality data to identify trends, potential risks and opportunities for improvement.
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Driving continuous improvement initiatives to maintain and further strengthen quality standards across the organisation.
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Collaborating closely with external manufacturing partners as well as internal functions such as Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Medical Affairs and other Quality teams.
You combine strong pharmaceutical Quality expertise with proven leadership experience and the ability to manage complex topics within an international and highly cross-functional environment.
Ideally, you bring:
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A Master's degree or comparable academic qualification in pharmacy, natural sciences, medicine or a related scientific discipline.
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At least 7 years of relevant professional experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
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At least 4 years of leadership experience, ideally managing specialised Quality teams.
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Broad expertise within pharmaceutical Quality, particularly in areas such as:
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Complaints Management
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Quality Issue Management
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Product Quality Reviews / Annual Product Reviews
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Recalls and quality alerts
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Product stability
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External manufacturing / supplier quality
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A strong understanding of GMP requirements and pharmaceutical quality systems.
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Strong analytical and strategic thinking with the ability to structure and manage complex quality topics.
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Confident communication and stakeholder-management skills.
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Experience working across functions and with external manufacturing or business partners.
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Very good English skills; additional languages are advantageous.
Join a rapidly growing pharmaceutical organisation with an international workforce and a highly successful specialised business model.
You will take ownership of strategically important Quality topics affecting an international pharmaceutical portfolio and work closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation.
The company offers flexible working models, modern hybrid-working structures and the possibility of temporarily working from another EU country.
Employees benefit from a flexible benefits budget that can be used for areas such as additional pension contributions, health and fitness programmes, mobility or meal subsidies.
Individual internal and external development opportunities support both technical and leadership development.
Regular company and team events contribute to an open, collaborative and international working environment.
If you are an experienced pharmaceutical Quality leader looking for a role combining people leadership, product quality oversight and international partner management, we look forward to hearing from you.
