Manager, Quality Control

**Working with Us**
Challenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely interesting work happens every day, in every department. From optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther than you thought possible.

**Fixed term contract 2 years**:
**Key Responsibilities**

Manage team and ensures cGMP compliance of the laboratory area and operations under responsibility.
- Create a positive and collaborative team environment and ensure that Bristol Myers Squibb standards are met.
- Manages performance and provides technical guidance, coaching and support to team members.
- Assigns training requirements and monitors training status of assigned team members.
- Create team plans to ensure resources are properly allocated and utilized effectively.
- Ensures all equipment used for GMP testing is in a qualified state.
- Authors, reviews, and approves complex GMP documentation such as laboratory procedures, work practices, plans, protocols, and reports.
- Support and sustains Lean Lab initiatives such as 5S, deviation reduction, Right First Time, and inspection readiness.
- Actively participates in inspections by Health Authorities.
- Report metrics to monitor schedule progress and help identify risk areas.
- Supports budget definition and adherence to budget target.
- Support purchase requisitions and purchase orders are managed as appropriate to ensure business needs are met in timely manner.

Oversee QC incoming material, stability, in-process, bulk product testing activities & environmental monitoring testing activities
- Collaborate cross-functionally and interdepartmental to define testing priorities, assign work to team members, and monitor progress against schedule.
- Ensure timely completion of stability samples in compliant with company procedures.
- Review and approve documentation as required by laboratory procedures.
- Perform final approval and disposition of QC results.
- Provide technical support to QC team members.
- Ensure compendial compliance of excipients (USP, Ph. Eur., JP and JPE as applicable) and evaluates any non-compendial supplier test methods against in-house methods and specifications.
- Defines incoming testing requirements of Incoming Materials, including specifications.
- Oversee sampling plan and testing regimes for all Incoming Materials.
- Provides oversight of testing contracted to external laboratories.
- Represents QC in cross-functional teams supporting New Product Introductions, Qualification and Risk Assessments.

Support Deviations, Investigations and Change Control Management
- Ensures Deviations, CAPAs and Change controls are handled appropriately and in a timely manner. Initiates and/or implement changes in controlled documents.
- Own or lead investigations in collaboration with internal and external functions, as required.
- Approve laboratory investigations, checklists, and deviations as SME/Area Manager.
- Work with impacted QC area functions to define appropriate and effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs).
- Ensure timely and compliant closure of QC deviations/investigations and CAPAs according to Bristol Myers Squibb procedures.

Promotes safe practices and behaviors.
- Report immediately incidents to Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) department, participate in investigations and identify measures to prevent similar accidents in the future.
- Ensures that staff (including short duration and temporary contracts) is properly informed on hazards and trained to act in consequence.
- Promotes safe practices and behaviors, assure that EHS requirements are implemented and respected.
- Demonstrate Bristol Myers Squibb values.
- Performs other tasks as assigned.

**Qualifications & Experience**

Education and Experience
- BS or advanced degree in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Pharmacy, or relevant scientific discipline or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
- Minimum 5 years of work experience in a GMP environment (pharmaceutical industry or similar field)
- 1-3 years of Quality Control Laboratory management experience prefer.
- Exceptional scientific and practical knowledge of analytical techniques (e.g., bio burden, identifications, automatic equipment for testing ).
- Exceptional scientific and practical knowledge of environmental monitoring testing
- Experience in executing quality control testing of solid oral dosage forms and raw materials.
- Exceptional knowledge of incoming material sampling and inspection.
- Working knowledge of relevant US, EU. and global regulations and ICH, ISPE, ASTM standards/guidelines and experience in particip