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Pierre Fabre

Allogeneic cell therapies development and commercialization

Operational Quality Assurance Specialist

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

About the Job

Requirements

  • A scientific higher education qualification at Bac+5 or equivalent, or significant experience in operational/product quality assurance at a pharmaceutical site.
  • Experience in a GMP environment, ideally in operational/product quality assurance involving quality events such as deviations, complaints, and investigations, is strongly desired.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing and packaging processes for the site's dosage forms, including dry, liquid, and paste forms, is strongly desired.
  • Knowledge of investigation and root-cause analysis methods, including QQOQCCP, 5M, and 5 Whys.
  • Knowledge and application of Good Manufacturing Practices.
  • Ability to organize work to meet product-release deadlines when quality events block or affect release.
  • Rigor, reliability, and a strong sense of responsibility.
  • Ability to analyze and synthesize information to assess criticality and support quality decisions.
  • Ability to work with stakeholders across Production, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, and Logistics.
  • Strong writing skills for deviation summaries, investigation reports, and quality documents.
  • School-level English, with the ability to understand, communicate, and write in English.

Responsibilities

  • Manage internal quality events.
  • Oversee the recording of events in the management tool and ensure the completeness and conformity of data in the TrackWise database.
  • Actively participate in and challenge investigations, including fact analysis, data collection, and on-site investigations with operational teams.
  • Assess the impact and criticality of quality events.
  • Define and implement correction actions in accordance with applicable standards.
  • Contribute to defining and validating corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) in line with identified causes.
  • Validate deviation summaries and investigation reports, ensuring clear writing and robust analyses.
  • Escalate and arbitrate events with significant quality, financial, or reputational impact with management.
  • Approve and close quality events within defined deadlines, in coordination with management.
  • Act as an operational quality assurance point of contact for workshops, providing on-site support and helping teams understand and prevent deviations.
  • Contribute to defining and implementing corrective and preventive actions close to operations.
  • Participate in training and raising team awareness through lessons learned, defect libraries, and good practices.
  • Contribute to writing and updating quality documents related to quality events, including procedures, operating instructions, and investigation guides.
  • Depending on need, extend the same duties to out-of-specification results (OOS) and customer complaints.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in a GMP environment, ideally in operational/product quality assurance involving quality events such as deviations, complaints, and investigations.
  • Knowledge of manufacturing and packaging processes for the site's dosage forms, including dry, liquid, and paste forms.

About the Company

Pierre Fabre

Allogeneic cell therapies development and commercialization

Pierre Fabre Pharmaceuticals (US) develops and commercializes allogeneic cell therapies for oncology and rare diseases. It focuses on bringing next-generation, donor-derived cell therapies to patients with high unmet medical needs and deepens partnerships with biotech companies to advance products through clinical manufacturing and distribution in the US.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Seed
Total funding
$13.8M
Headquarters
Toulouse, France
Founded
1951

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