Quality Assurance Advisor

We are now looking for a Quality Assurance Advisor in a R&D GMP setting for a consultant assignment positioned at AstraZeneca in Mölndal. The assignment is for one year and starts in September 2015.

AstraZeneca is a major international healthcare business engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of prescription pharmaceuticals and the supply of healthcare services. AstraZeneca is proud to offer a unique workplace culture that inspires innovation and collaboration. Co-workers are empowered to express diverse perspectives - and are made to feel valued, energized and rewarded for their ideas and creativity.

The Arena
Pharmaceutical Development´s Quality Assurance (QA) function is recruiting a QA Advisor with a Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) focus for a one-year temporary contract. The QA Advisor role has a broad range of responsibilities to ensure that activities and processes in Pharmaceutical Development functions and the R&D supply chain comply with Regulatory requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices and AZ internal quality system requirements.

Interactions occur among various internal functions and sites, but also with vendors and suppliers. The role is based at Mölndal inSweden.

The role

• Provide QA input into Pharmaceutical Development internal/external manufacturing activities for Drug Product and the approval of manufacturing documentation
• QA release of internally/externally manufactured and packed Drug Product as part of the Supply Chain to clinical trials.
• Support the Pharmaceutical Development functions with investigations of deviations and other quality and compliance decisions having a major impact on AstraZeneca development projects.
• Provide Pharmaceutical Development projects´ with QA support, such as GMP risk assessment and interpretation of GMP regulations.
• Provide appropriate QA input to business improvement projects.
• Close collaboration with AstraZeneca QA colleagues globally.

Qualifications

• Scientific degree with at least 3 years experience of working within a pharmaceutical GMP environment
• Broad understanding of Quality Systems and GMP
• Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical/drug development process
• Good communicator with experience of interacting effectively across interfaces
• Fluent in written and spoken English

Preferred experience

• Experience preferably within a pharmaceutical development organization
• Good team working and networking skills
• Capable of making effective decisions
• Demonstrate a high degree of personal credibility

What do we offer?
Adecco is the world´s largest recruitment and staffing company and our most important asset is our qualified employees. With us, and on our customer assignments, you, as a consultant, will be appreciated for your difference-making competence! Your bank of experience will grow, as will your social and professional network of contacts. Adecco can offer you the opportunity of interesting assignments at attractive companies, of positions that perhaps never will be put on the open market.

We want you to feel good and will give you subsidies for preventive healthcare and discounts on training cards. In order for you to feel secure, you will also be covered by insurance and corporate healthcare.

Are you interested?
Then you should apply as soon as possible. The position is to be filled immediately, and, for that reason, work with recruitment is being done on a continual basis.

We look forward to your application!