Quality Assurance Manager

Merck • Rockville, MD

3d

About The Position

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join MilliporeSigma. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. Your Role: At MilliporeSigma, at our Contract Testing Site in Rockville, as the Quality Assurance Manager, you will be responsible for leading a team of QA personnel and/or supervisors who perform a variety of tasks within the Quality Assurance department. You will allocate work / projects and monitor progress, timelines, completion and quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field
• 6+ years’ experience in Quality Assurance within a GxP environment.
• 3+ years’ supervisory or management experience.
• 2+ years’ in a Quality client facing role

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in scientific field
• Fosters potential and develops talents of top performers within the QA team.
• Acts ethically and takes responsibility for quality of own work and that of the QA team.
• Collaborates with various local and global teams to identify and implement improvements.
• Works with agility, drives and implements change on local and global scales.
• Applies technology to drive digitalization, improve quality and increase customer value.
• Expert knowledge and application of FDA and EU regulations (cGMP, GLP, Data Integrity).
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and conflict resolution skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage team of QA personnel and/or supervisors to ensure performance and resource utilization requirements are met.
• Communicate with senior leadership about quality and compliance issues as well as progress updates on improvement activities.
• Utilize appropriate tools to monitor and allocate appropriate resources to support the business needs including short- and long-term resource planning.
• Work directly with internal and external customers to assure Best-in-Class expectations for quality and timely delivery are met or exceeded.
• Contribute to budget planning for QA department and control expenses within department budget.
• Analyze trends, quality metrics and other data to identify quality and compliance gaps.
• Communicate quality and compliance gaps to senior leadership and drive improvements within cross-functional departments.
• Lead training activities on quality systems and other quality initiatives.
• Lead regulatory inspections and generate and/or participate in observation response efforts.
• Guides and influences senior leadership regarding quality and compliance issues.
• Contributes to the financial, resource planning, strategic direction and operational decision-making of the organization.
• Is accountable for the performance / results of the QA team.

Benefits

• Benefits offered by the Company include health insurance, paid time off (PTO), retirement contributions, and other perquisites.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager