Senior ESO QA Manager

Job Description Summary

Our ESO QA team is hiring!

Job Description

Are you passionate about ensuring high-quality standards in pharmaceutical products? Do you thrive in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and international environment? If so, we invite you to join us at Sandoz, now operating with a renewed strategic focus, increased agility, and a strengthened culture.

Sandoz is a global leader in generic and biosimilar medicines. We are focused on agility, strategic clarity, and a strong culture to shape the future of affordable healthcare.

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Quality Assurance Manager to lead quality operations with external suppliers. This role is critical in ensuring regulatory compliance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement across the supply chain.

As a Senior ESO QA Manager, you will lead supplier quality oversight, ensuring compliance with

regulatory and internal standards. You will drive strategic quality initiatives, mitigate risks, and contribute to cost efficiency while supporting global supply operations.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead External Supplier Qualification processes.

• Act as Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for all quality-related activities at external suppliers.

• Negotiate and finalize Quality Assurance Agreements (QAAs).

• Manage complex changes, deviations, and complaints.

• Escalate risks and propose mitigation strategies.

• Ensure timely achievement of project quality deliverables.

• Conduct internal and external audits (including strategic suppliers).

• Drive QMS improvements and process simplification initiatives

What you need to bring to the role:

• University degree in Microbiology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, or equivalent.

• Minimum 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical/API quality assurance or quality operations.

• Deep knowledge of GMP regulations (EMA, FDA, CA, etc.).

• Strong leadership, project management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Fluent in English.

• Strategic Decision Making

• Stakeholder Management

• Audit Leadership

• Organizational Development

• Communication & Influence

• Inspection Readiness

• Business Partnering

Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

Our momentum and entrepreneurial spirit is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is encouraged!

The future is (y)ours to shape!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Sandoz 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

Audit Management, Communication Skills, Continued Learning, Dealing With Ambiguity, Decision Making Skills, Employee Performance Evaluations, Gmp Procedures, Inspection Readiness, Organizational Skills, People Management, People Management and Leadership, Product Release, Qa (Quality Assurance), Self-Awareness, Technological Expertise