Job title: Head of Quality- Medical Cannabis
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Remuneration: Competitive salary
Cpl Life Sciences is collaborating with a growing medical cannabis business that is established to meet patient demand for a dependable supply of high-quality, UK-produced, cannabis-based medicines. The businesses operate a brand-new state of the art growing facility, processing environment, and laboratory.
The role would lead the site’s shared quality and technical services functions, ensuring effective day-to-day collaboration with the Growing and Production units. The position is a newly created role in a rapidly expanding team, and the successful candidate would have the opportunity to shape the role as the business develops.
Desired Qualifications and Experience
1. Ideally, 3-5 years’ experience in the GMP pharmaceutical business
2. Experience in a quality and/or QC function
3. People management and leadership experience
4. Relevant degree
5. Comfortable working in a dynamic and changing environment.
Key Responsibilities
6. Management and leadership of the technical unit
7. Line management of the QA, QC, and R&D functions
8. Mentorship and performance management of direct reports
9. Effective planning and organisation of the unit’s day-to-day activities in collaboration with the other business units.
Quality
10. Enforcement of GMP practices throughout the business
11. Generation and implementation of GxP documentation and protocols where required
12. SME in GMP standards and any inspections or internal quality event investigations
13. Identifying and raising deviations, participating in root cause analysis, and implementing CAPA plans.
Communication
14. Working closely and communicating effectively with the Growing and Production units
15. Tracking of key metrics and sharing with other functions and the senior management team
16. Cascading key information and strategy from the senior leadership team to the quality and technical unit.
Health and Safety
17. Ensuring compliance with safety regulations and company policies
18. Reporting near misses, accidents, and incidents in a timely manner.
Controlled Drugs
19. Following company and HO procedures for the handling and destruction of controlled drug material
20. No criminal record, required to pass EDBS check.
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