Country: Portugal City: Lisbon Department: Quality Assurance Job ID: 38581

Our Corporate Functions teams make sure everything at Grünenthal runs smoothly by bringing together people with a wide range of skills ? from experts in finance, IT, HR, law and compliance through to business strategists and creative media minds. If you?re a great collaborator and a strong communicator, you?ll feel right at home here. Join our team and join forces with colleagues across our business to maximise our company?s positive impact on patients and their families.

What the job looks like:

• Plan, prepare and conduct external suppliers on-site audits for ensuring consistent high quality of the pharmaceutical goods and services to be purchased;
• Generate audit reports and approve Corrective and Preventive Actions plans provided by the suppliers;
• Ensure that critical findings observed during on-site audits are eliminated within timely manner by performing a stringent follow-up of the respective CAPA;
• Perform paper based and remote audits for less critical materials and services;
• Negotiate quality contracts with our suppliers and service providers;
• Participation in supplier monitoring and supplier management programs;
• Investigation and escalation of supplier quality incidents;
• Participation in supplier relationship management initiatives and forums;
• Follow up, investigation, evaluation and closure os supplier quality complaints.
  

What you'll bring to the table:

• You have an university degree, preferably in Chemistry, Pharmacy, or Engineering anda have gained relevant practical experience in production or quality management;
• You have already gained experience in auditing of at least 2 of the following topics: Non-Sterile APIs - Excipients - Non-sterile Finished Drug Forms - Contract packaging organisations - Chemical substances - Medical Devices - Packaging Materials - Warehouses - Services;
• You have knowledge of international authority regulations (e.g. PICs, ICH, and FDA) including applicable ISO norms;
• You will be required to speak and write fluent english;
• Structured, result-oriented work, reliability and discretion are just as important for you as high motivation, a self-assured manner, and excellent multi-cultural, negotiation and communication skills;
• These international tasks involve travelling (around 40%).
  

Come and join our team!

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About Grünenthal

Grünenthal is a global leader in pain management and related diseases. As a science-based, privately-owned pharmaceutical company, we have a long track record of bringing innovative treatments and state-of-the-art technologies to patients worldwide. Our purpose is to change lives for the better ? and innovation is our passion. We are focussing all of our activities and efforts on working towards our vision of a world free of pain.

Grünenthal is headquartered in Aachen, Germany, and has affiliates in 29 countries across Europe, Latin America and the US. Our products are available in more than 100 countries. In 2020, Grünenthal employed around 4,500 people and achieved sales of ? 1.3 bn.

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