Senior Manager Quality Operations • Quality Operations, Bio/Sterile
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Responsibilities:
- In collaboration with Responsible Person and Qualified Person perform product disposition activities to ensure the timely supply of drug substance, drug product, and finished biological products
- Serve as a quality lead for the technical CMO projects related to commercial BMS product
- Own or provide quality evaluation and approval of the change controls related to commercial biological products from CMOs
- Provide quality decision on the deviations reported by CMOs for manufactured BMS products. Lead deviation meetings with CMOs.
- Prepare and review of Quality Agreements with external and internal manufacturing and testing partners
- Manage and report quality metrics in relation to CMO performance
- Review and collaborate with CMO and BMS sites on Annual Product Quality Reviews as required for end-to-end product monitoring
- Work with CMOs to ensure commercialization and PAI readiness for biological products introduced to CMOs
- Review and approve analytical documentation in collaboration with the analytical SME
- Provide quality operational support during self-inspections, internal audits, and regulatory agency inspections at contract manufacturers and BMS.
- Support supplier relationship manager, global procurement, supply chain and manufacturing science and technology teams for the projects, technical transfers programs, supplier selection programs, and commercial manufacturing activities
- Review validation documents, deviations, and change controls and escalate any potential compliance gaps
- Escalate issues to senior management to ensure that issues are resolved to support BMS business and compliance requirements in a timely manner
- Evaluate external quality complaint investigations provided by CMOs
Required Competencies:
- Ability to assess the right balance between the business implications, technical considerations and quality decisions
- Ability to set up and implement quality expectations for technical projects based on regulatory and industry standards
- Ability to serve as a quality lead for technical projects
- Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills across all levels both internal and external to BMS
- Demonstrated technical expertise in resolution of deviations, complaints, development of effective corrective and preventive actins (CAPA) and use of risk assessments
- Able to rapidly adapt to changing environment and circumstances requiring flexibility, tolerance, and great sense of urgency while assuring that all cGMP and regulatory requirements are met
- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills in English
- Proficiency with the use of global systems (e.g. SAP, Microsoft Office).
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking, problem solving and rapid decision making skills
- Demonstrated capability in implementing challenging goals, objectives and practices in a complex and ambiguous environment
- Confidence in negotiating and influencing without authority
- Proficiency in technical writing
Desired Competencies:
- Minimum B.S. degree in relevant scientific discipline e.g., Biochemistry, Microbiology, Pharmacy, Biological Sciences or Related Pharmaceutical Science
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in aseptic or sterile manufacturing operations at the manufacturing site (manufacturing department, quality assurance and release, or manufacturing science/technology)
- At least 4 years in Quality Assurance, ideally in project management or product release
- Experience in biological product manufacturing
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Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers
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On-site Protocol
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