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Quality Control Support Manager
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Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
Job Title: Quality Control Support Manager
- Location: Waterford, Ireland
- Job Type: 12-Month FTC, Full-Time
- Working Arrangements: On-site
About the job
Quality Control (QC) is responsible for sample receipt, testing intermediate production samples, final product samples, and environmental samples to demonstrate that all products meet the standard requirements for CGMP operations. Additional functions include raw material testing, stability testing, assay transfers, and qualification of instrumentation. The Quality Control Operations group supports Laboratory Investigations, Deviation Investigations, CAPA support, Training, and Change Controls. Quality Control Validation Support consists of the Method Validation Group and the Equipment Qualification Group. Quality Control is also responsible for assisting in site wide studies and projects.
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About Sanofi
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Main Responsibilities
- Overseeing all quality processes and digital solutions related to quality control management in compliance with the Sanofi global processes and quality control tools
- Providing QC support for all routine activities
- Leading the quality control schedule and capacity planning to support the timely release of products and the adherence of the test’s execution to the committed standard times
- Defining and maintaining the maintenance, qualification, and calibration plans to ensure valid status of the lab equipment
- Handling sample management flows from sampling to receiving and dispatching to the appropriate labs (including stability and EM sample management per plan)
- Managing reference standards and reagents for the labs
- Training management of quality control samplers or warehouse/manufacturing samplers when delegated
- Ensuring coordination of external/cross site testings, including samples flows and results reports
- Owning stability studies managed by the site in compliance with approved protocols: testing executed in a timely manner and stability result trending performed on time, including reports issuance
- Providing the appropriate quality control documentation defined in accordance with the Sanofi global processes
- Implementing and maintaining QC digital solution (core model and local) (including data management and end-user management)
- Managing and training QC support team
- Leading initiatives for continuous improvement in QC support processes in coordination with QC Excellence team
- Ensuring a quality control process supported by appropriate procedures is implemented in line with global quality and maintained locally in compliance with regulatory requirements
- Ensuring the consolidated follow-up and Progress tracking of events (e.g., deviation, lab investigations), change control, CAPAs, related to QC, coordinating with respective QC areas and other involved functions, to ensure they are managed and closed as committed
- Overseeing the Business Owners for QC processes by having QC representatives of the site in the CoPs led by global, and if requested participating in the CoEs, and ensuring local communication
About you
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Significant relevant experience in manufacturing quality, including demonstrated experience in a managerial or leadership role.
- Good knowledge of Equipment, systems and quality improvement methodologies.
- Strong leadership, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Six Sigma, or equivalent quality certification is an advantage.
Why choose us?
- Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.
- Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.
- Grow, thrive, and make an impact in a workplace that empowers you to bring your best self every day, with pride.
- Help deliver 30+ new product launches by 2030, ensuring patients get treatments faster than ever.
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
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- Growth happens here. With bold investments in R&D and world-class facilities, Sanofians across the entire vaccine lifecycle are shaping the future of global health.
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