Interim Site Quality Director

2 weeks ago

Skipton, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Dechra Full time

About Dechra

Dechra is a leading global specialist in the development, manufacture, marketing, and sales of high-quality veterinary pharmaceuticals. Our expertise is built on a strong foundation of values that drive our culture and operations.

Our Values

At Dechra, we thrive on a culture that embodies Dedication, Enjoyment, Courage, Honesty, Relationships, and Ambition. These values are at the heart of our everyday operations and the way we do business.

The Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Interim Site Quality Director to lead our Quality teams on site, including Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Qualified Persons. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that quality standards and systems are implemented and maintained in compliance with UK, EU, and FDA cGMP.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build positive relationships across site functions, breaking down existing silos.
  • Promote a proactive, solutions-focused culture within the Quality function.
  • Deliver results through effective cross-functional collaboration.
  • Develop and execute the site Quality improvement plan to achieve agreed deliverables, on time, with the necessary resources identified, in place, and accountable.
  • Drive performance improvements across departments, recognizing efficiencies while driving continuous quality improvement.
  • Establish and implement visibility of quality on-time performance (OTP) across all departments and drive accountability for resolving quality issues.
  • Ensure strategic quality risk management activities are implemented, effective, and sustained by the Quality and site team.
  • Coordinate with regulatory authorities, including product recalls, license applications/variation, defect reporting, and annual controlled drugs return process, to ensure compliance with current standards.
  • Use departmental and site KPIs to monitor and improve performance.
  • Ensure the Quality function operates in alignment with the site's 5 strategic pillars: People, Safety, Quality, Deliver, and Cost.
  • Support the development of the quality team by mentoring and coaching team members, identifying training needs, and implementing a plan to deliver proactively addressing under-performance, developing effective succession plans, and liaising with customers and suppliers as required to resolve quality issues or deliver further improvements.
  • Support the implementation of new initiatives, including systems and processes, to ensure new ways of working are implemented and compliance is maintained.
  • Provide feedback on quality performance and Quality KPIs at the appropriate forums.
  • Host both regulatory and customer audits.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in leadership of large functions through line managers and their teams.
  • Strong people management experience.
  • Ability to define and develop a high-performing team culture.
  • Pro-active and solutions-driven, with the ability to work to strict deadlines with a high level of accuracy.
  • Role models best-practice mindset and behaviors.
  • Ability to prioritize work and handle multiple deadlines.
  • Proven track record of working with multi-department projects.
  • Fully IT-literate: Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel.
  • Knowledge of GMP, UK, EU, and FDA would be beneficial but not required.
  • Demonstrated pharmaceutical quality experience, including audit, batch record review, change control, complaint handling, and investigations experience would be beneficial but not needed.
  • Knowledge of pharmaceutical/nutraceutical manufacturing, packaging, testing, and distribution processes and associated global regulatory GMP/GDP requirements would be an advantage but not required.
  • Experience of hosting UK and FDA inspections, client audits, and self-inspections would be ideal but not required.
  • Experience in devising, implementing, and maintaining pharmaceutical quality systems compliance with UK, EU, and FDA GMP requirements would be beneficial but not needed.

What We Offer

  • Average 36-hour working week (with a day off every other Friday).
  • Plenty of training and development opportunities.
  • 22.5 days annual leave + Bank holidays.
  • Option to buy a week's holiday each year.
  • 8% Employer Pension Contribution.
  • Free access to the Headspace App.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Free on-site parking.

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