Qualified Person (QP) - Quality Manager

Qualified Person (QP) - Quality Manager

City: Kingston upon Hull

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

Research & Development

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you'll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

About the role

Location: Hull, HU8 7DS

We are looking for a Qualified Person (QP) to join our Quality Leadership Team as a strong quality leader. In addition to performing batch certification and release activities, you'll work closely with cross functional teams to oversee a variety of GxP activities in our non-sterile manufacturing facility to maintain compliance to GMP and drive continuous improvement.

You will work with the Quality and Site Leadership teams to support the execution of the QMS and ongoing maintenance of the MIA, whilst delivering quality improvement initiatives. The role is proactive in identifying, communicating, and mitigating quality and compliance risks and driving continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities

• Member of the site Quality leadership team, influencing the sites quality strategy and priorities.
• QP certification and release of finished product batches produced at the Hull site.
• Ensuring regulatory and corporate GMP requirements are maintained for all factory activities.
• Facilitate the identification, communication and the ongoing removal of identified quality and compliance risks. Communication to Site Lead\Operations Manager, Site Quality Director and other key function heads as appropriate.
• Provide instruction and support on guidance to all areas of the site on GxP to ensure compliance with UK and any required International GxP Regulations and Guidelines.
• Communication and cascade of performance indicators identifying outstanding risks to key stakeholders.
• Interact with the Reckitt quality system to ensure change controls, quality event investigations and CAPAs are raised, managed, and closed out in line with company expectations.
• Providing support and leadership during regulatory inspections, maintain manufacturing authorisations and implement changes in legislation and regulatory guidance to ensure the ongoing compliance of the QMS.

The experience we're looking for

Experience and leadership skills required to be successful in role:

• Eligible to undertake the duties of a Qualified Person as defined in SI 2012-1916 and Directive 2001/83/EC.
• Thorough knowledge of the legal requirements, rules and guidance covering the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing of non-sterile dosage forms.
• Demonstrated experience in risk management, change management and validation
• Experience of hosting Health Authority inspections.
• Highly developed leadership, critical thinking, communication, interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Innovative and able to identify new approaches and ways of working.
• Strong planning, organisational and data analysis/interpretation skills.
• Familiar with modern business management techniques, methodology and tools.
• A positive willing and reliable attitude, providing good customer service to internal and external customers.
• Attention to detail and accuracy, strong time management skills, ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Confidence, drive and ambition to make an impact on the business.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.

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