Purpose

• To lead and manage Site validation activities (as assigned) to ensure that validations are in compliance with company procedures, regulatory requirements, and cGMP expectations.
• To provide QA compliance oversight over IT and Technical Services (as assigned)

Key Responsibilities Area

Ensure site validation activities are compliant with Site procedures, regulatory requirements, and cGMP expectations:

• Author and maintain the quality system SOPs for validation.
• Define validation approach that is technically sound and are compliant.
• Author Validation Plans and Reports, including Continuous Validation Plan
• Review and approve validation deliverables
• Provide solutions to achieve validation requirements
• Collaborate with Operations to define the validation schedule and support the timely completion of activities as per schedule
• Drive efficiency, improvement and robustness in site validation systems and processes.
• Be the link with Global Validation for technical information, and standards roll out
• Assess impact to validation and validation status during change management, and define appropriate validation requirements and approach to maintain validated status of systems
• Assess impact to validation for incidents/deviations and ensure appropriate CAPAs are in-place to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
• Perform Periodic Review and prepare the review report for systems and processes.
• Oversee Periodic requalification and Continued process verification to maintain the validated status of systems and processes.
• Conduct GSK internal audits and front as SME in external regulatory inspections.
• Provide support for all activities related to GPS (e.g. Tiers, Gemba, DMAIC etc) for continuous improvement.

Provide QA Oversight to IT operations in areas of:

• QA consultation to review and approve SOPs
• Review and approve changes, deviations and CAPAs

1. Provide QA compliance oversight to Technical Services

• Interact with TS personnel in day-to-day operations to ensure cGMP compliance
• Be the QA approver for TS activities including but not limited to LSOPs, Deviation/Event, CAPAs, Change Controls, and Quality Tag-Outs
• Pest control reports - Calibration & maintenance programs Pest control reports.

2. Interface with Internal & External stakeholders

• Effective interfaces with internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective communication with and cascades from Global functions.

3. EHS

• Comply with company requirements on EHS

Proposals & Recommendations

• Propose validation approach
• Propose areas of site validation improvement
• Identify potential compliance risk/ gaps and recommend improvement
• Identify improvement in quality processes.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

• Min bachelor's degree in industrial biotechnology or engineering
• Min 2 years of experience in pharmaceutical industry
• Min 5 years of experience in quality assurance and validation.
• A good understanding of cGMP regulatory and legal requirements as applied to quality assurance and validation of pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Good understanding of regulatory inspection requirement
• A good working knowledge of validation, preferably with hands-on experience
• Computer skills in MS Office and familiar with web-based e-learning resources
• Potential or developing project management skills.

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