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MSD Director Quality Assurance Value Chain Management - Global Hybrid 
Ireland 
438956619

28.07.2024

Job Description

in Quality Assuto support the end-to-end program for our assigned Product Value Chain inAntibody Drug Conjugates).You will bekey member and sit onthe Value Chain, ensuring compliance and driving manufacturing excellence throughout the commercial lifecycle of the product. Collaboration, coaching, and facilitation are at the core of our team's working style, ensuring program success through quality support, oversight, and.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the product program from a quality perspective, ensuring compliance with current procedures.

  • Collaborate with the Quality, Regulatory, Technical, and Supply Chain pillars.

  • Develop the Product Quality Strategy, aligning it with the product supply strategy and documenting it effectively.

  • Create the Product Analytical Strategy, including elements such as testing laboratories, testing duality, and stability.

  • participateand lead product focus teams, providing qualityexpertise, support, and advice.

  • Improve Quality Systems and operational quality by solving complex problems and driving continuous improvement.

  • Implement and oversee applicable Quality Management Systems and standard ways of working to ensure a supply of quality products.

  • Stay up to date with regulatory/compliance requirements and apply them effectively.

  • Liaise with Corporate Quality to ensure alignment on Quality Systems and operational quality actions.

  • Participate in inspections asrequiredand champion Permanent Inspection Readiness (PIR) for the product program.

  • Collaborate with other sites to share best practices and ensure alignment on Quality System-related topics.

  • Act as a qualitydesigneefor Global Product Quality as needed.

  • Drive communications across the Quality Network by leading meetings, activelyparticipating, and escalating relevant issues/risks to Quality sponsors.

  • with the development of the Analytical Siting Strategy.

  • Track change control metrics and complaint metrics for the franchise.

  • Evaluate the franchise's Annual Product Review for supply chain trends and escalaterisksas necessary.

  • Review and approve Sister Site Evaluation and Post Marketing Product Review.

  • Monitor and mitigate franchise Quality risks.

  • Partner with site Quality representatives to track Quality performance data.

  • Lead orparticipatein VCMTchartered projects and track their progress.

  • Act as the Quality Representative to VCMTand associated working groups.

  • withtheQualityleadsto resolve supply chain quality issues.

Requirements:

  • At least ten years of experience in thePharmaceuticalindustry,withleadershipexperience.

  • Quality experience and/or technology experience in Vaccines or Large Molecule Operating Unit is preferred.

  • Continuous Improvement(CI)experience or Analytical experience is desirable, but notrequired.

  • Strong project management skills and excellent communication skills.

  • Experience leading multi-functional teams to execute strategic actions.

  • Degree or post-graduate qualification in Science, Pharmacy, or Engineering field.

  • Demonstrated ability to drive change and improvement initiatives.

  • Strong leadership behaviors and stakeholder management skills.

  • Continuous Professional Development and a focus on continuous improvement.

  • Successes in team environments, such as project teams, Six Sigma teams, or CI teams.

  • Good communicationand interpersonal skills.

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

Current Contingent Workers apply

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Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by aagreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.



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