Quality Assurance Manager Pharma / 75K - 90K per year / South-Holland

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Utrecht Netherlands.

The Company

For over 100 years, they have been uncompromising in their commitment to safety, quality, innovation and performance. Drawing on deep application and product knowledge, this company works side-by-side with customers to make their cutting edge technologies work for them. Their solutions help differentiate products in markets such as food, home & personal care, animal nutrition, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and bioplastics. This company has factories in the Netherlands, Spain, Brazil, Thailand and the United States, with a worldwide network of sales offices and agents in more than 100 countries.

Role Description

Do you want to have a key role in creating and realizing a zero defects culture? As Quality Assurance (QA) Manager Pharma, what matters is how you answer questions like: How do you engage a whole organization to think quality? How do you deal with very diverse and changing regulations on a production site? What means continuous improvement in a quality organization?

Responsibilities

In this new position you will work for the location in Gorinchem where there is the largest lactic acid derivative facility. This location services all of the non-Bakery food market units and the Biochemicals Unit. Additionally on this site is the Biomaterials plant. Gorinchem also accommodates the Central R&D and Innovation Centre. As the new QA Manager Pharma you report to the Director QA / QC within the Operations Team. As the QA Manager Pharma you are mainly responsible for typical and non-typical quality matters at the plant, where there are 150+ employees

Furthermore we need you to:
- Act as a key interface between the plant and the different business functionalities of the company;
- Get your plans in motion through intuitive and diplomatic approach of relations;
- Train and coach the shop floor in the related field;
- Help promote a strong team spirit: "we do it together".

Requirements

In addition to your educational achievements on a Bachelor level, as the successful candidate for the position of QA Manager Pharma you must also have: - At least 5 years of experience of quality in a pharma environment
- Wide knowledge about GMP, GDP and ISO 9001
- Experience in equipment and process validation
- Verbal and written fluency in Dutch and English language

We look for candidates who can:
- SET CLEAR DIRECTION: Explain clearly where we are heading, why and how we will get there
- MAKE THE DIFFERENCE: Deliver results and quality while managing change
- FOCUS ON CUSTOMERS: Consistently meet the expectations of internal and external customers
- DELIVER THROUGH TEAMWORK: Engage, motivate, challenge and support employees and teams As the Manager QA/QC we need you to go the extra mile, to embody our behaviors and show the following competencies: a structured, organized approach of your responsibilities, drive for result and will finish what you have started and we need you to have an open minded personality.

Other information

We offer competitive remuneration and benefits. What makes our client special is the way they consciously create that connection between the product of their work and our individual lives and use it to shape their choices and priorities as a company. They have a great company made up of talented, dedicated people – people who share a purpose and a vision. This is a company with a: - Culture to empower people and where your initiatives and ideas make a real difference - International focus with truly diverse teams - Unique possibility to be trained by our internal expertise in the world of biobased products - We invest in relevant training courses related to your particular discipline, that will give you the opportunity to grow into an industry expert - Lastly, they offer a friendly, informal culture in a demanding professional environment In addition, they actively embrace diversity in how they work together and contribute toward shared objectives and values.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Cees Roffelsen.