Senior Operations Quality Manager

Our client, a specialist contract manufacturer in the advanced therapies space, is looking for a Senior Quality Operations Manager to lead their Quality Operations team through the next phase of growth.

This is a genuinely broad, senior role. You'll run a large team, hold real authority over how quality operates day to day, and deputise for the Head of QA so you'll need to be someone who's comfortable owning decisions, not just implementing them.

What you'll be doing

You'll lead the team responsible for the operational side of Quality making sure the workload is realistic, the targets are hit, and the GMP standards behind every batch are never in question.

Day to day, that means

Keeping the leadership team informed with regular reporting

Building and interrogating KPIs

Running the internal audit programme and leading third party responses

Reviewing protocols, batch records, SOPs and quality events

Building risk-based audit plans, following them through, and making sure CAPAs actually close out properly

Leading investigations when things go wrong, root cause, CAPA, and helping operational teams put it right

Managing your team: hiring, developing and coaching

What we're looking for

Senior quality leadership experience, ideally gained running a sizeable team in a regulated manufacturing environment

Strong working knowledge of GMP as it applies to cell therapy or other biological products, sterile, cell-based processing experience is a real advantage

A solid grounding in biological systems

Comfortable working in an electronic QMS

Excellent communication skills

Honours degree in a life sciences subject, or equivalent experience