O

Opella

Global OTC & VMS self-care manufacturer

Quality Manager

Regulatory & Quality (Life Sciences)Updated on Nov 14
Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chemistry, Bioengineering, Life Sciences, or another relevant scientific discipline is required.
  • At least 5 years of work experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including at least 1 year of GSP experience.
  • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Hands-on troubleshooting skills with practical application experience.
  • Proficiency in risk assessment and root cause analysis methodologies.
  • Experience with internal and external audits.
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure and in complex matrix environments.
  • Fluent English reading and writing.

Responsibilities

  • Implement and maintain quality systems for pharmaceutical products in compliance with regulatory requirements and company standards.
  • Ensure internal assessments are conducted regularly according to schedule, necessary corrective and preventive measures are implemented, and self-inspections meet GSP requirements.
  • Ensure warehouse environments and operations storing and distributing company products meet GSP and company standards through periodic self-inspections and continuous improvement.
  • Ensure timely management of deviations and corrective and preventive actions related to all GxP activities across the country; implement corrective and preventive actions to address deviations and non-conformities.
  • Ensure implementation and maintenance of a Quality Management System linked to GSP activities and Marketing Authorization Holder downstream activities.
  • Implement quality risk management to identify, assess, and control quality risks; manage transportation qualification and risk assessment.
  • Review, qualify, and approve GxP-related suppliers, vendors, and customers, and manage quality master data; ensure GSP suppliers are qualified and regularly checked and overseen.
  • Support quality master data management for suppliers, vendors, and customers to ensure data accuracy and compliance.
  • Release or authorize batch distribution to market based on manufacturing batch disposition decisions and relevant information required by local regulations.
  • Approve returns to saleable stock; ensure non-conformance investigations and participate in decisions to quarantine or dispose of returned, rejected, or recalled products.
  • Approve destruction of products, witness destruction when physical presence is needed, and maintain records.
  • Implement drug recall decisions and complete recall execution and reporting in compliance with applicable GSP/GMP requirements.
  • Collaborate with relevant partners to ensure consumer drug sector compliance with global guidelines, policies, and enterprise quality and regulatory compliance standards for delivery.
  • Ensure distribution centers comply with GDP/GSP requirements for drugs.
  • Participate in qualification, monitoring, and evaluation of third parties.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams during new product development to identify quality and regulatory compliance risks, develop mitigation actions, ensure timely product launch, and support NPD/NPI processes and compliant business growth.
  • Own product technical complaints and product-specific feedback for drug products, including registration, translation, investigation, closure, and reporting.
  • Handle quality complaints, conduct root cause analysis, and formulate and implement corrective and preventive actions to prevent recurrence.
  • Conduct drug traceability inspections and verifications to ensure traceability systems are compliant and effective.
  • Participate in the preparation and implementation of internal and external audits and inspections.
  • Support and coordinate post-marketing quality activities related to the Marketing Authorization Holder.
  • Monitor and enforce quality standards compliance; promptly report non-conformances to the Country Quality Head with root cause analysis and recommended corrective actions.
  • Investigate and resolve quality events according to company procedures; escalate urgent cases, significant events, and adverse trends to the Country Quality Head with impact assessments.
  • Monitor regulatory developments and intelligence, analyze potential operational impacts, and provide the Country Quality Head with consolidated reports and actionable recommendations.
  • Review and update Quality Agreements to define appropriate latitude of action for third parties, enabling independent routine quality activities while maintaining oversight of critical product-quality and compliance decisions.
  • Complete additional tasks and assignments as required to support business objectives.

Desired Qualifications

  • Licensed pharmacist qualification.
  • Experience working in multinational companies.
  • Strong communication skills.

About the Company

Opella

Global OTC & VMS self-care manufacturer

Opella makes a wide range of over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, minerals, and supplements for global consumers, covering about 100 brands and an 11,000-strong workforce. It develops, manufactures, and markets non-prescription health products that people can buy ready-made in stores for common needs such as pain relief, digestion, and allergy relief. The company differentiates itself with a large global manufacturing footprint (13 sites and 4 science and innovation centers) and its B Corp certification, signaling accountability to social and environmental standards. Its goal is to simplify self-care and put health in people’s hands for half a billion consumers worldwide.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Founded
2018

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Opella

See more jobs