Quality Assurance Student Intern

Are you a curious, collaborative scientific professional who wants to build trusted relationships with oncology clinicians and help improve patient care across Canada?

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Are you looking for an opportunity to support a Quality Management team in the day to day operations in a local operating company responsible for importation and distribution of pharmaceuticals?  If so, this is the role for you.

As Operational Quality Assurance Staff you will be responsible for supporting the local operating company manager to implement and maintain and effective and robust quality management system.  You will also perform day to day quality operations to ensure lean and efficient ways of working to meet compliance standards.

PLEASE NOTE: A PREFERRED CANDIDATE HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED

Key Responsibilities

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career, these responsibilities include some of the following: 

• Execute and deliver quality objectives, quality improvement plan, and trends against the quality key performance indicators to drive continuous improvement
• Monitor quality performance and key performance indicators to ensure quality and compliance issues are identified, communicated, and resolved
• Support the local change control process to ensure all planned changes are effectively and compliantly managed
• Perform activities to support the risk management process to ensure effective management, timely reporting, review and escalation of quality risks
• Develop local processes to conduct root cause analysis; identify where corrective/preventative actions plans are required and ensure they are effectively implemented, monitored, and closed out
• Support the complaints management process to ensure potential issues are determined quickly, linked to the adverse events, reported, and follow up on product complaints
• Support the Quality Manager to ensure that an effective local product incident process is in place and manage any product quality related issues and train staff as appropriate
• Work daily to support systems that have an impact on the quality of imported products and the products are in line with the quality management system
• Liaison with manufacturing sites to ensure compliance to local registered technical details
• Ensure the timely release of imported finished goods deliveries and resolve quality-related issues from deliveries
• Ensure all product specifications and related documents are maintained and compliant to current registered details
• Support Quality Manager in ensuring product storage and distribution performed by third party warehousing and distribution service providers complies with GSK standards
• Ensure as appropriate documentation of batch records and retention of samples

Why you?

Basic Qualifications: 
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years’ experience within the Pharmaceutical/Consumer Healthcare industries
• Experience in quality assurance systems particularly in the areas of documentation management, batch release, product incidents, process performance indicators and performing self-inspection
• Experience with regulatory requirements pertaining to good manufacturing practices and good documentation practices
• Experience working with effective quality documentation systems

Preferred Qualifications: 
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Previous role as a quality associate or specialist
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical thinker with good attention to detail and problem-solving skills in a structured process
• Team player with the ability to work independently and in cross-functional team
• Ability to multi-task and work under pressure
• Identify areas of continuous improvement and innovative ways of working
• Ability to demonstrate flexible thinking
• Strong general computer literacy with Intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook

Working Model

This role is based in Canada and is hybrid out of our Mississauga location. You will combine on-site collaboration with flexible remote work.

Ready to apply?
We welcome applications from people who bring scientific curiosity, collaboration and a patient-centered mindset.  If this role aligns with your experience and purpose, please apply now.  We look forward to learning how you can help get ahead of disease together.

Skills

Data Integrity, Detail-Oriented, Digital Fluency, GxP Regulations, Lean Management, Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance, Problem Solving, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Awareness, Technical WritingIn compliance with Ontario's provincial pay transparency legislation in Canada, this job posting includes a salary range to support equitable and informed hiring practices. The annual pay rate for new hires in this position ranges from CAD$31,980 to CAD$79,950 taking into account a number of factors including work location within the Canadian market, education level (e.g., Undergrad / Masters / MBA etc.) and based on the experience required for the role. GSK is dedicated to promoting transparency and fairness throughout our recruitment process. Salary ranges for other locations are shown because some markets have pay transparency laws that require salary information on job postings, and those locations are potential job sites for this role. If salary ranges are not displayed in the job posting for a specific location or country, the relevant compensation will be discussed during the recruitment process.

Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law. GSK is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. If you need accommodation at any stage of the application process or want more information on our accommodation policies, please contact us at [email protected].  Please do not send resumes to this e-mail and instead apply through the online application process of this posting.

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