# Quality Control Direct Director

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Parma
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: EUR 81,000 to EUR 135,000
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

This position oversees Quality Control operations in the Parma Network Laboratory and leads the delivery of analytical testing for the Parma site and the wider Biopharm network.

The role ensures alignment with the Biopharm analytical network strategy, including effective allocation of testing across Parma and network laboratories, support for new product introductions, and reduction of reliance on third-party testing where appropriate.

The incumbent reviews and releases test results and ensures full cGMP compliance in laboratory operations.

Responsibilities:

- Responsible for Analytical and Microbiology testing and release, Laboratory investigation and CAPA, Stability testing, Sample and retain management, Microbiology testing, EM and utilities monitoring, and Incoming materials testing.

- Lead and coordinate analytical testing support for the Parma site and the Biopharm network.

- Provides in-depth technical and scientific advice and guidance to laboratory supervisors and analysts.

- Leads and empowers a team of lab leaders to ensure the laboratory is a data factory.

- Ensures that departmental laboratory and manufacturing-related investigations are completed in a timely manner.

- Ensures that the Quality Control team continues to grow technically and professionally.

- Provides leadership by ensuring compliance of the department with laws, regulations, guidelines, procedures, and practices governing analytical Quality Control testing.

Qualifications/Skills:

- Demonstrated success leading a team comprised of varying levels of technical expertise and functions.

- Demonstrated success developing teams.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills.

- Able to interact with peers, subordinate and senior personnel in multidisciplinary environment.

- Able to prioritise and decide appropriate course of actions.

- Fully versed in GMP's, NIH, ICH Guidelines, FDA and other regulatory agency requirements for validation and operations of analytical and stability functions.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience supporting new product introductions, method transfers or technology implementations.

- Experience with laboratory information systems, electronic lab notebooks or laboratory automation.

- Strong track record in driving continuous improvement and operational excellence in labs.

- Experience managing budgets, resource planning and recruitment for laboratory functions.

- Professional working proficiency in English and Italian.

## Skills

### Required
- GxP Regulations
- Quality Assurance (QA)
- Quality Control (QC)
- Risk Awareness
- Testing Operations
- Data Integrity
- Detail-Oriented
- Digital Fluency
- Influencing Without Authority
- Lean Management
- Problem Solving
- Italian

### Nice to have
- Experience with laboratory information systems
- electronic lab notebooks
- laboratory automation
- budgeting
- resource planning
- recruitment

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