Head Quality Control/Manager Quality Control Formulation

Quality Control :

- Managing all validation activities, including validation strategy and approval of protocols and reports.

- Develop, communicate & adhere to best Testing practices to ensure that no non-conforming batch leaves Company premise

- Ensure qualification & maintenance of equipment's, department & premises.

- Ensure optimum utilization of the resources available so as to comply with the agreed timelines with customers, internal & external.

- Ensure - ZERO- down-time for want of maintenance of machines, manpower & material

- Observing and complying with GLP.

Management :

- High level resource planning.

- Represent QA at senior management, project, Board, and review meetings.

- Providing direction and guidance to the Quality team.

- Managing, motivating, coaching and mentoring direct reports, to higher levels of management capability.

- Identifying and developing the Quality team structure.

- Preparing and justifying the Quality department's budget.

- Ensuring good relations and communications with all members of the team and responding politely and in a timely fashion to internal and external customers.

- Undertaking any other duties, either for this department or any other department within the business, which may be requested by the Line Manager, for which training and/or an explanation has been provided and understood.

- Budgetary and managerial responsibility for Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

Person Profile :

- Scientific degree (ideally pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry or related).

- Quality professional with 10+ years of hands on experience with increasing responsibility in a QA function.

- Prior responsibility for Quality Control.

- Hands on experience implementing quality systems in a WHO GMP environment, and direct experience with FDA and other health authority inspections.

- Extensive knowledge of various WHO GMP compliances regulations and industry practices.

- Ability to critically evaluate and troubleshoot complex problems is essential.

- Strong hands on leadership and management skills with a - can do- attitude.

- Ability to effectively participate on multi-disciplinary teams.

- Ability to absorb, digest and relate detailed scientific, quality, and regulatory information.

- Well-organized and detailed oriented professional, with strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Good understanding of the pharmaceutical market, including the unlicensed medicines sector.

- Wide knowledge of products and processes used in the manufacture of unlicensed medicines.

- Strategic thinker with the ability to influence at a senior level.

- Highly customer focused.

- Commercially astute.

- Strong analytical and problem solving ability.

- Excellent project management skills.

- Adept at Conflict Management & resolution