Job Description Summary
-Provide quality assurance expertise, guidance and support to operational activities in development and research organizations to ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and Novartis procedures and quality standards. Manage projects, including Quality Plan initiatives, and processes that support quality objectives to assure their compliance with GxP regulations.
Job Description
Key responsibilities:
Support discipline/service provision individually or within a team; provide functional expertise to QA/Line Units as needed.
Review, approve, and release GMP-relevant deliverables and tools to ensure cGMP compliance.
Manage project-related activities (e.g., process/quality initiatives, facility upgrades, IT validation) as per responsibility.
Ensure compliance with internal/external quality and safety guidelines (e.g., GMP, SOPs, Quality Manual).
Drive continuous quality improvements for manufacturing, collaborating with production, engineering, and supply chain.
Oversee qualification/validation of processes, equipment, facilities, and software for GMP use.
Review and approve GMP documents, including URS, IQ/OQ/PQ, Change Controls, CAPAs, and SOPs.
Support inspection preparations and maintain oversight of external maintenance and qualification activities.
Essential requirements:
Degree in Pharmacy, Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, or equivalent.
Fluency in English (verbal and written).
Strong awareness of quality issues and urgency in task completion.
Open and clear collaboration and communication skills.
Scientific, technical, and regulatory knowledge in the specific area, with basic understanding of drug development.
Detailed knowledge of cGMP and familiarity with safety/environmental regulations.
Minimum 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical companies in equivalent roles.
Strong organizational skills.
Why Novartis? Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You will receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Skills Desired
Agility, Analytical Development, Auditing, Audit Management, Business Partnering, Change Control, Continued Learning, Health Authorities, Influencing Skills, Knowledge Of Capa, Qa (Quality Assurance), Quality Management, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Self-Awareness, Six Sigma, Sop (Standard Operating Procedure), Technological ExpertiseSimilar Jobs
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What We Do
Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide.
