Associate Director, Quality Assurance, Technology
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Job Description
Your Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Establish strategic partnerships with Quality and Technical Operations stakeholders to align technology capabilities with business objectives.
Lead the Quality Technology portfolio, ensuring effective planning, prioritization, and delivery of initiatives supporting Quality Assurance capabilities.
Drive the development and execution of technology roadmaps for Quality Management Systems and related digital platforms.
Partner with business leaders to capture, assess, and prioritize demand, translating requirements into scalable technology solutions.
Act as the primary Technology partner for Quality Assurance, ensuring alignment between business strategy and technology investments.
Oversee vendor relationships, solution lifecycle management, and delivery of high-quality services in regulated GxP environments.
Collaborate with global Technology teams to support budgeting, business architecture, innovation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Promote an inclusive, high-performing environment while supporting capability building, digital transformation, and organizational change.
Key Performance Indicator
Successful delivery and adoption of standardized Quality Technology solutions that improve stakeholder satisfaction and support business strategy.
What You'll Bring to the Role
Essential Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related discipline.
Experience & Skills
- 8+ years of experience working within Quality and GxP-regulated environments.
- 5+ years of experience supporting or managing Quality Management Systems (QMS).
- Experience with enterprise Quality platforms such as Veeva Quality, Veeva Vault, or equivalent Quality systems.
- Strong knowledge of GxP regulations, System Validation, Computer System Validation (CSV), and compliance requirements.
- Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholders across regional and global organizations.
- Proven success delivering technology solutions within regulated industries, preferably pharmaceuticals or life sciences.
- Strong project, change management, and business relationship management capabilities.
- Experience translating business requirements into technology strategies, roadmaps, and operational solutions.
Essential Skills
- Excellent analytical, communication, stakeholder management, and strategic business partnering skills with the ability to influence and drive outcomes across complex global organizations.
Languages
Advanced proficiency in English, both written and spoken.
Desirable Requirements
Experience working in multinational pharmaceutical organizations with global Quality Operations responsibilities.
Certification or practical experience in Agile methodologies, Lean Six Sigma, Design Thinking, or Digital Transformation initiatives.
You'll Receive
Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package.
Flexible and hybrid working arrangements that support work-life balance.
Opportunities for continuous learning, professional development, and leadership growth.
Access to global projects and exposure to senior stakeholders across the organization.
An inclusive, collaborative, and innovation-driven culture focused on personal and professional development.
The opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of Quality Technology within a leading global healthcare company.
Why Sandoz?
Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry. Sandoz, a leader in this sector, provided more than 900 million patient treatments across 100+ countries in 2024 and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!
With investments in new development capabilities, production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.
Our momentum is powered by an open, collaborative culture driven by our talented and ambitious colleagues, who, in return for applying their skills experience an agile and collegiate environment with impactful, flexible-hybrid careers, where diversity is welcomed and where personal growth is supported!
About Sandoz
Global leader in generic and biosimilar pharmaceutical medicines.
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