Senior Manager, QA Shopfloor Lead

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Bristol Myers Squibb has been active in the Dutch market for over 50 years, employing people across a range of activities and business units in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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Position Summary

The Senior Manager, QA Operations is responsible for providing management for the QA Shopfloor program in accordance with Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) policies, standards, procedures and global current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP).

Responsible for managing the activities of the shopfloor team to ensure Manufacturing, Warehouse and Quality Control compliance with applicable procedures and batch records, providing real time review of manufacturing batch record documentation and logbooks, and working with operations to resolve manufacturing issues.

This person is a key leader in the Quality Assurance management team and a champion for quality principles and compliance within the Quality organization.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Act as deputy to the Associate Director, QA Shopfloor in leading the QA Shopfloor program at the Leiden CTF, and serve as back-up for the day-to-day management of the QA Shopfloor team in the absence of the Associate Director, including prioritization of activities, and escalation of quality issues to QA management.
• Lead and drive continuous improvement initiatives within the QA Shopfloor program (e.g., procedures, batch record and logbook review process, ways of working, tools and digital systems) and ensure that improvements are implemented in a compliant manner through the applicable quality systems (e.g., change control).
• Represent QA Shopfloor (QASF representative) in larger site and cross-site (network) projects, such as new product introductions, facility, capacity expansions and process changes; ensure QA Shopfloor requirements, risks and resource impacts are identified, communicated and addressed.
• Contribute to the development and execution of the BMS Inspection Readiness plan at site QA level and lead inspection readiness activities within QA Shopfloor (e.g., self-inspections, shopfloor walk-throughs, mock inspections, documentation and data readiness). Act as subject matter expert for QA oversight of GMP operations during audits and regulatory inspections and support the site inspection team (front room / back room).
• Help ensure that the QA Shopfloor team operates in compliance with applicable GMP regulations, BMS policies and procedures: monitor team compliance and performance indicators (e.g., timeliness of batch record review, deviation and CAPA timelines, training compliance, good documentation practices), identify trends and gaps, initiate and follow up on corrective actions, and report on these in site quality governance forums.
• Provide Quality Assurance oversight of GMP operations at the Leiden manufacturing site and provide direction and timely guidance to QA Shopfloor personnel during the handling and resolution of GMP events (deviations, non-conformances and corrective action assessments), including escalation of significant events.
• Ensure timely Quality support to site compliance activities such as Change Control impact assessments, deviation impact assessments and the development of corresponding Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs). xgiwjmb Critically review investigations, interpret results and generate technical conclusions consisten