Associate Director, Animal Health Quality - Pharmacovigilance

Job Description

Responsible to support PV Quality System audits at our company's Animal Health own sites/entities, CROs and system audits. Support to monitor all aspects of the operational business comply with GXP legal and Regulatory Requirements and the company's Animal Health Policies and Procedures.

Job description

• Responsible for planning and co-ordination of pharmacovigilance (PV) audit activities within our company and externally with CRO’s, laboratories, contactors, and external business partners

• Perform and Support PV audits as required.

• Review and Approve Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)s which are necessary due to audit findings.

• Assure maintenance of audit data in a related data system (incl. reports and follow-up of audits)

• Co-ordinate the planning of PV Audit training sessions, and compilation of PV Audit Risk Assessments (e.g., for Supplier Qualification)

• Support our company's Animal Health sites in their preparation for Regulatory Agency Inspections by conducting audits, “Mock Inspections”, training and other support activities.

• Support the conduct effective “Due Diligence” activities of potential in-licensed products, acquisitions and partners as required.

• Identify and report critical and major quality and compliance risks and gaps during audit activities.

• Ensure effective follow-up audits of sites with significant quality and compliance issues.

• Support the conduct effective “For Cause” audits to investigate frequent field alerts, recalls, rejects and complaints.

• Support in informing Senior Management of emerging regulatory and PV trends to help avoid compliance risks.

• Provide effective support during regulatory inspections as requested by QA.

• Willing to travel extensively and on short-term off-site assignments for remediation projects based on business needs.

Qualifications

 Requirements: 

• A bachelor’s degree in a Scientific Discipline/Life Sciences or related discipline. A master’s degree in a relevant discipline or higher degree preferred.

• A minimum of ten (10) years of pharmaceutical industry experience in a compliance-related area (e.g. PV, QA, Auditing, work in GLP, GCP, GMP environments), with a minimum of five (5) years’ experience in Quality Assurance/Auditing/Pharmacovigilance.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, i.e., ability to build constructive relationships, positive & constructive attitude, desire, and ability to work in interdisciplinary teams.

• Very good organizational, communication, and negotiating skills.

• Very good written and verbal communication skills in English.

• Ability to facilitate and/or lead a variety of meeting formats.

• Ability to perform in a multi-task and multi-cultural environment.

• Good computer skills.

• Preferred Experience and Skills: Working knowledge of global pharmacovigilance procedures preferred.

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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