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Haleon

Global consumer health care products company

Oral Site Quality Lead

Regulatory & Quality (Life Sciences)Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Science, Biology, or a related scientific discipline is required.
  • More than 10 years of relevant experience in product manufacturing, quality management, or technical operations, including practical Quality Assurance and Quality Control experience, or equivalent knowledge, capability, and qualification assessed by the site.
  • Experience in quality system auditing, regulatory inspection, or inspection readiness is required.
  • Experience in project management, planning, and organization is required.
  • Familiarity with GMP, QMS, Company Quality Standards, and applicable regulatory requirements is required.
  • Good written and spoken English is required, with the ability to communicate professionally across regions.
  • Leadership, team management, planning, communication, and coordination skills are required.
  • Strong analytical, risk-based judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving capability is required.
  • Ability to identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive execution across the organization is required.
  • Proficiency with computers and common office software is required.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the site Quality team and provide direction to the site on quality and compliance matters.
  • Represent Quality in site management meetings and other key interactions, ensuring quality considerations are incorporated into significant decisions.
  • Manage the Site Quality Council and other quality governance processes to ensure timely identification, escalation, management, and mitigation of quality and compliance risks.
  • Ensure timely and effective communication and escalation processes are in place for quality issues.
  • Ensure effective implementation at the site of applicable GMP, Company Quality Standards, SOPs, and relevant policies.
  • Establish and maintain efficient, technically sound, and risk-based quality processes, including change control, deviation, complaint, OOS, CAPA, audit, and document management.
  • Review and approve all quality-related changes, ensuring impact assessments, implementation actions, effectiveness checks, and closure activities are adequate and timely.
  • Continuously evaluate QMS performance and drive process improvement, right-first-time execution, and a strong compliance culture.
  • Ensure raw materials, packaging materials, intermediate products, bulk products, and finished products comply with approved registration requirements and quality standards.
  • Ensure compliant review of batch records, test results, deviations, and other relevant information before product release, and maintain an efficient and compliant batch release process.
  • Make or ensure product release decisions are based on approved manufacturing, testing, registration requirements, and product quality standards, with appropriate records retained.
  • Approve quality standards, sampling methods, test methods, and other quality management procedures.
  • Ensure significant deviations, OOS results, and product quality complaints are adequately investigated and timely managed, and participate in recalls and other quality management activities.
  • Ensure completion of the ongoing stability program and availability of appropriate stability data.
  • Ensure completion of product quality reviews and trend analyses.
  • Ensure appropriate systems are in place for all necessary qualification and validation activities.
  • Review and approve qualification or validation protocols and reports.
  • Oversee maintenance of premises, facilities, and equipment to ensure they remain fit for purpose and in good operating condition.
  • Establish systems for qualification, approval, and ongoing monitoring of material suppliers.
  • Assess and approve material suppliers and determine and monitor storage conditions for materials and products.
  • Approve and oversee contract manufacturing and contract testing activities, ensuring effective control of quality agreements, responsibility interfaces, changes, deviations, and performance management.
  • Work with Regulatory Affairs to oversee site product registrations and site-initiated registration-related changes, ensuring products and manufacturing activities comply with applicable approved requirements.
  • Ensure the site maintains continuous inspection readiness and support Health Authority inspections and Company audits.
  • Manage internal and external audit and inspection programs, ensuring major or critical observations are appropriately investigated and adequate CAPAs are established.
  • Monitor CAPA progress, effectiveness, and on-time closure, and escalate significant risks in a timely manner.
  • Lead and drive the site compliance training system to ensure employees are competent and appropriately qualified.
  • Manage talent development, employee engagement, and capability building within Quality, and ensure succession plans are in place for key roles.
  • Develop an effective Quality team capable of making appropriate quality decisions.
  • Own functional risk management, including proactive risk identification, assessment, and mitigation planning.
  • Establish and continuously monitor appropriate quality performance indicators, ensuring actions are progressed and completed on time.
  • Own the annual department budget and deploy resources effectively to support quality, compliance, and business objectives.
  • Understand and comply with applicable EHS laws and regulations, Company standards, policies, and safe work procedures.
  • Promptly report unsafe conditions, injuries, illnesses, and hazardous material releases, and support the site EHS management system.
  • Perform other projects and tasks assigned by the line manager.
  • Set a high standard for quality and compliance culture across the site, ensuring quality and compliance risks are systematically identified, managed, or mitigated.
  • Make independent decisions on quality and compliance matters related to products manufactured at the site, escalating significant quality matters to the appropriate management level in accordance with Company escalation processes.

About the Company

Haleon

Global consumer health care products company

Haleon is a global consumer health company that develops and sells everyday health products under brands such as Sensodyne, Advil, and Centrum. Its products address oral care, pain relief, immunity, and general well-being, working through science-backed formulations people use daily. Haleon differentiates itself by being a focused, standalone consumer health business formed from GSK’s spin-off and built from leading brands through major acquisitions, operating at scale with a portfolio of category leaders and competing with peers like Kenvue and Procter & Gamble. Its goal is to help people take control of their daily health with trusted products, while expanding its global reach and investing in manufacturing capacity and brand development.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Weybridge, United Kingdom
Founded
2022

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