Global Preventive Quality Systems, Senior Manager

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Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead the Preventive Quality Systems organization, setting priorities, ensuring continuity, and strengthening team capabilities and process ownership.
• Provide governance across Change Control, Documentation & Records Management, Supplier QMS, Compliance and Audit, ensuring an integrated preventive quality framework.
• Strengthen Change Control governance, driving consistent processes, effective lifecycle management, and prioritization based on quality, compliance, and business needs.
• Ensure robust governance of QMS documentation and records, improving document lifecycle management and simplifying practices across Pharmaceutical Systems.
• Support the evolution toward efficient, sustainable digital documentation practices.
• Strengthen Supplier QMS governance and its integration with the broader worldwide Quality System and preventive quality priorities.
• Increase visibility and appropriate escalation of systemic supplier quality risks.
• Leverage audit and compliance insights to proactively identify vulnerabilities and drive continuous QMS improvement.
• Promote horizontal learning and best-practice sharing across Pharmaceutical Systems sites and functions.
• Accelerate QMS harmonization and transformation, simplifying processes, eliminating duplication, and increasing global consistency across Pharmaceutical Systems.

Key Deliverables By the end of the two-year assignment, the mission holder is expected to have:

• Maintained effective leadership and business continuity across the full Preventive Quality Systems scope.
• Strengthened governance and performance management for the processes within the mission.
• Advanced harmonization and simplification across PS.
• Strengthened interfaces between Change Control, Documentation, Supplier QMS, Compliance and Audit.
• Increased use of Quality System insights to support proactive risk identification and prevention.
• Developed team capability and organizational resilience.
• Established a sustainable operating model supporting an effective transition at the conclusion of the assignment.

Success Measures

• Continuity and effectiveness of key QMS governance.
• Performance against agreed QMS process KPIs and objectives.
• Delivery of agreed harmonization and simplification priorities.
• Effective management and escalation of Quality and compliance risks.
• Progress against WWPS QMS transformation priorities.
• Development and engagement of the Preventive Quality Systems team.
• Sustainability of governance, processes and organizational capability at mission completion.

Key Interfaces

• Director, WWPS QMS
• Other WWPS QMS pillar leaders
• PS site Quality organizations
• PS functional and business stakeholders mainly ISC, RD, Customer facing team
• Corporate/Central Quality teams
• Relevant process owners and subject‑matter experts

Preferred Requirements

• Strong Quality Management System knowledge in a regulated environment.
• Experience in one or several of the following areas: Change Control, Documentation, Supplier Quality, Compliance or Audit.
• Ability to lead across functions and geographies in a matrix organization.
• Demonstrated capability to drive simplification, harmonization and continuous improvement.
• Strong risk-based decision‑making and problem‑solving capabilities.Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders.Strong people leadership and change‑management capabilities.Ability to balance compliance, operational effectiveness and transformation.

Base salary €81.800 to €94.000 + variable pay + benefits

Expected Outcomes at the End of the 2 Years A stable, simplified and increasingly integrated Preventive Quality System that anticipates risk, enables the business and strengthens compliance across PS.

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