Quality Assurance Executive (Pharmacy background) at Ascentech Services Limited

Key Task
Quality Assurance:

• Ensures that the Quality Management System is adequately established, effectively implemented and maintained.
• Ensures establishment, review and effective implementation of all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) required for Good Warehousing and Good Distribution Practices.
• Approves products for sales as may be required,
• Assist in the review of Quality Management System,
• Assists in all forms of audits: internal, second-party, regulatory inspections and third-party audits.
• Collaborates with other functional heads to assure compliance with all applicable quality plans and requirements.
• Coordinates warehouse inspection
• Coordinates activities of Quality Officers.
• Coordinates with external services providers to assure effectiveness of the QMS.
• Authorize coding and relabeling activities
• Co-ordinate complaints resolution.
• Reports to Quality and Regulatory Manager
• Quality Control /QA for MAS labeling operations/ NAFDAC number printing operations.
• Pest management programme.
• Coordinate calibration activities
• Coordinate supplier’s audit.
• Maintains training programme and records of training conducted.
• Approves the release of goods under “Quarantine or Hold” as may be required.

Regulatory Affairs:

• Monitoring and Managing of Pharmaco-vigilance and adverse events monitoring

Training:

• Participate in the facilitation of training programmes as practical.

Compliance:

• Ensures that written standards are aligned kept updated and accurately describe processes in the business.
• Conduct awareness training of compliance policies for various audiences including third parties (including employees of third parties hosted at the business), contractors, and employees.
• Participates in Identification and mitigation of risk.
• Implement compliance programme.

Measures of Performance

• Ensuring that Quality Objectives are achieved -70%
• Ensuring that Occupational & Health Management Objectives — 20%
• Periodic report to be made to Management -10%

Key Relationship
Internal Contracts:

• Quality manager
• Superintendent Pharmacist
• All heads of Department

External Contracts:

• NAFDAC
• PCN
• Principals
• Technical Consultants and Suppliers

Requirements
Required Skills / Competencies:

• Good Interpersonal relation
• Team player
• Computer literacy; ability to use Microsoft words is critical
• Good communication skill
• Project Management
• Negotiation skill
• Target orientation
• Leadership skills