Senior Quality Assurance Specialist
hace 3 días
Liverpool
Senior Quality Associate – Senior Third Party Quality Assurance Specialist 📍 Speke, United Kingdom | Full Time | Quality Assurance Contract length: 12 months with a high chance of extension FTE: Full time 37.5 hours/week Onsite presence- 3 days in office, 2 days wfh An established, global pharmaceutical company is seeking a Senior Quality Associate (Senior Third Party Quality Assurance Specialist) to join its Europe, Emerging Markets and Middle East Quality team based in Liverpool. This organisation develops and manufactures products worldwide with a strong international footprint and science-led approach, it offers a collaborative environment, high regulatory standards, and genuine opportunities for professional development within a growing global business. The Role This position plays a key role in overseeing third-party manufacturers and ensuring externally manufactured products are produced and released in line with Good Manufacturing Practice requirements, regulatory expectations, and internal quality standards. You will operate and maintain quality systems that monitor supplier compliance, proactively manage risk, and support uninterrupted product supply across multiple regions. Key Responsibilities • Provide quality assurance oversight of assigned external suppliers and third-party manufacturers, • Monitor supplier performance metrics to proactively identify and escalate compliance risks, • Review and assess customer complaints, including root cause investigations, product impact assessments, trend analysis, and corrective and preventive actions, • Review third-party deviation reports for completeness, investigation quality, impact assessment, and corrective actions, • Review batch release documentation and support product release activities, including material status updates within enterprise resource planning systems, • Review Product Quality Reviews and assess supplier-level quality trends, • Ensure annual pharmacovigilance statements are obtained and reviewed, • Maintain effective third-party quality systems, including quality agreements and supplier risk assessments, • Represent Quality Assurance within cross-functional projects and support quality management as required About You • Scientific degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Engineering, or a related discipline, • Experience within a Good Manufacturing Practice quality environment, • Strong background in deviations, complaints, investigations, and corrective and preventive actions, • Understanding of regulatory requirements within a pharmaceutical or health setting, • Familiarity with enterprise resource planning systems and structured quality management systems, • Experience overseeing third-party manufacturers or external partners is highly desirable, • Exposure to working within a global organisation would be advantageous If you would like to discuss this vacancy further or to discuss your career options in confidence, please contact Femi Olubodun via telephone on +44 (0) 2039288387 or email on: If this role isn’t suitable for you, please let us know if you can refer anyone – any recommendations are much appreciated! Planet Pharma offers a competitive referral scheme so you will be rewarded for your help! About Planet Pharma Planet Pharma is an American parented Employment Business/Agency that provides global staffing services with its head-quarters in Chicago and our EMEA regional office located in Central London. We have invested significantly in creating a robust international platform that enables us to work compliantly in 30+ countries with a current network of 2500+ active contractors globally as well as a very strong permanent / direct hire recruitment offering. Our specialist knowledge and close relationships with our clients and the wider industry really makes us unique in our field. Just recently we were recognized by FORBES as the 17th best professional staffing firm, and have won multiple awards from industry accredited bodies for our commitment to excellence and service delivery. We have extensive functional expertise including: Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, QA, QC, Submissions experts, Clinical development, Quality, Biostatistics, and Medical Affairs / Writing. We are an equal opportunities Recruitment Business and Agency. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.