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Senior Associate Quality Assurance Specialist (12 month FTC)

Job Details

Req ID:
R009778
Location:
Sittingbourne, UK
Category:
Technical Operations

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (NASDAQ: JAZZ) is a global biopharmaceutical company whose purpose is to innovate to transform the lives of patients and their families. We are dedicated to developing life-changing medicines for people with serious diseases - often with limited or no therapeutic options. We have a diverse portfolio of marketed medicines and novel product candidates, from early- to late-stage development, in neuroscience and oncology. We actively explore new options for patients including novel compounds, small molecules and biologics, and through cannabinoid science and innovative delivery technologies. Jazz is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland and has employees around the globe, serving patients in nearly 75 countries. For more information, please visit www.jazzpharma.com and follow @JazzPharma on Twitter.

Brief Description:

To assist the Quality Compliance Manager and other QA team members in the implementation of the Quality Systems at the KSP facility and associated contractor sites.

Essential Functions

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

  • Managing and maintaining of the quality management system:
    • Corrective and preventative actions (CAPA)
    • Deviations
    • Change control
    • Supplier and customer complaints
    • Quality risk management (QRM)
  • Leading root cause analysis (RCA)
  • Liaising with global process owners to ensure consistency in the QMS between sites and functions
  • Training in the QMS
  • Collating QMS metrics and KPI data
  • Presenting QMS data at quality management review (QMR) meetings
  • Quality Vendor Management
  • New Supplier/Vendor onboarding
  • Internal and External Audit management

Detailed responsibilities / Accountabilities

  • Prepares, reviews, updates and completes QMS processes
  • Ensures training records are kept up to date
  • Carries out their work in a way that will not adversely affect their own, or others’ health, safety and security or the environment and reports any shortcomings in GW arrangements
  • Ensure all complaints are documented, investigated and closed out within agreed guidelines. That issues are escalated as required
  • Strives to ensure quality events are closed within agreed timeframes and facilitates management of quality events across KSP
  • Assisting in the assembly of the product quality review
  • Ensuring that regulatory, marketing partners due diligence and other audit/inspections performed at GW are supported with efficient document retrieval and supply of the technical information
  • Management of quality qualifications and approval of vendor to ensure compliance to regulations.
  • Ensures vendors are maintained and monitored using a risk-based approach which links into the external auditing process and the business.
  • Lead and support internal and external audits, report write up and response management.
  • Assist in the creation of technical agreements, supplier agreements and quality risk assessments
  • Participate or leads projects to deliver improvements in productivity and efficiency in all areas relevant to complaints
  • Authors and reviews all required quality documents
  • Creates training packages for QMS process at KSP
  • Authors and edits SOPs associated with the QMS at KSP

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Skills:

  • Working knowledge of office IT packages
  • High level of written and verbal communication skills

Attributes and Behaviors:

  • Motivated individuals that have extensive experience across many disciplines within the pharmaceutical industry and have spent a significant period of time within quality assurance, demonstrating the ability to develop quality systems.

Required / Preferred Education and Licenses

Education:

  • Typically, Bachelor’s degree in science or related discipline
  • Post-graduate qualifications (Master’s, PhD) preferred

Experience:

  • Minimum 3 years relevant work experience in the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology or a related industry
  • Experience working within a quality environment, including experience in GMP, GACP and GDP

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.

The successful candidate will also be eligible to participate in various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental and vision insurance, retirement savings plan, and flexible paid vacation. For more information on our Benefits offerings please click here: https://careers.jazzpharma.com/benefits.html.

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