LHH Recruitment Solutions is a specialized talent recruitment agency. We provide tailored services to help companies find the best candidates for their staffing needs.

With deep industry expertise and a commitment to excellence, LHH RS is a trusted partner in Switzerland for many years.

Our client is a pharmaceutical company based in Canton de Neuchâtel

Quality Control Associate Director H/F

• Guide, mentor & develop your teams to achieve an environment of personal accountability and trust.
• Align with the site to set the strategy & priorities for your teams, ensuring we are working on the right things,
• Manage your teams by setting & tracking goals and tasks. Continuously improve processes to ensure we are doing it right.
• Ensure pro-active priority and daily activity management for team & activities (planning communication, team organization, control, checking of the defined targets),
• Ensure department processes are sufficiently defined and documented. KPIs are implement & monitored, actions are prioritized to ensure KPIs are on target.
• Communicate pro-actively, consistently, and collaboratively with peers, stakeholders, and partners.
• Use risk management & scientific assessments to ensure the depth and breadth of resource allocation (people, duration, documentation, etc. ) is commensurate to the risk, impact, and the ROI.
• Keep up to date with current industry best practices that may give an operational or strategic advantage to the company
• Accountable for the department budget (OPEX and CAPEX).
• Accountably for the on time delivery of all QC activities, to ensure overall on time delivery to the clients
• Review key department documentation, including procedures, reports, deviations, CAPAs, Change controls, etc.
• Ensure that out of specifications and deviations are appropriately investigated and resolved;
• Identify and present business cases to continuously improve, increase capabilities & capacities, to better meet client's, mitigate compliance risks, etc.
• Identify and coordinate continuous improvement & process optimizations within QC and across the site.
• Responsible for proposing solutions to client's requests, especially where there is a conflict with other department activities.
• Immediate escalation of client concerns to the project manager and site head
• Accountable for the planning, execution and tracking of all compliance activities (GxP as well as other regulatory requirements). Including:
• Accountable for the departments related topics during audits & inspections (including regulatory, compliance, client and corporate)
• Process definition, and management of documentation (SOPs, Job Descriptions, etc.), ensuring alignment to corporate policies, regulatory requirements and best practices.
• Training Curriculum definition and on-time completion of training,
• Follow up, coordination and management of CAPAs, deviations and Change Controls.
• Lead complex deviation investigations, change management, and critical quality complaint resolution activities.

Profile :

• University Degree in scientific field
• 10 years experience in a pharmaceutical company or other related GMP industry.
• Fluent in French and English

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