QA Professional, Koriyama Factory (Koriyama, Fukushima, JP)
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QA Professional, Koriyama Factory
Your impact begins here
As QA Professional at Koriyama Factory, you will be the quality decision-maker for batch release and for the deviations, change requests and customer complaints that sit behind it. Your judgement on batch documentation and on risks to patients and products helps make sure the finished drug products we make.
What you’ll bring
You bring a solid quality assurance background and the confidence to make clear, well-founded decisions.
A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Life Sciences or a related field.
At least 2 years of experience in quality assurance within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English.
The ability to assess risks to patients and products and to give clear advice and recommendations.
What you’ll do
You will review and approve quality system tasks and provide QA oversight, so that quality is built into how Koriyama Factory works every day.
Review and release batch documentation. This is your main responsibility.
Approve deviations, change requests and customer complaints, assessing risks to patients and products along the way.
Verify that facilities and utilities meet regulatory and corporate compliance standards for drug production.
Work with the Line of Business to strengthen a high-quality mindset in day-to-day operations.
Bring in data-driven techniques and new ways of working with colleagues across functions to improve compliance and efficiency.
Who you’ll work with
You will join a positive, supportive Quality Assurance team that sits directly under Global. Colleagues help each other, and the team has strong working relationships with other departments, which makes it easier to align quickly and move from question to decision.
Day to day, you will work with the Line of Business, as well as internal and external stakeholders across the value chain, to keep compliance and quality assurance on track. You will make day-to-day decisions within standard practices and procedures and can turn to your manager and senior colleagues when you need a second view.
The role is focused on Japan, with a global outlook: you will work with colleagues around the world, so cultural understanding matters.
What you can expect here
You will be trusted to take ownership of your decisions and supported to perform at your best. Your voice counts: you will be encouraged to share your expertise, challenge how things are done and help shape better ways of ensuring factory compliance.
You will grow through hands-on experience, relevant learning offerings and the chance to work with colleagues across the value chain, building skills that go beyond your own area.
Start now
Your impact begins today. If you are ready to protect the quality of the treatments people rely on, apply for the QA Professional. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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Salary context
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