MST Compliance Support Specialist

Key responsibilities and minimum requirements according to job level:

• High level of independence and accountability for large projects and development within field.

• Performs variety of tasks of variable complexity.

• Takes part in large strategic projects.

• Challenges and decisions faced in the role are often non-precedent.

• Can have impact on large, important projects.

• Leading expert within field – guides and coaches' other employees.

Competencies required to fulfill the employee responsibilities and work assignments:

• An employee shall follow the job description that pertains to his/her position. In addition, an employee shall follow the SOPs that pertains to his/her position.

• An employee shall adhere to the company policies and procedures that are available on the Alvotech intranet – Alvocado.

The MST Compliance support specialist shall be responsible for:

• Establish MST Quality Record and Events (change control, manufacturing investigation etc.) management strategy, including specification and internal and external manufacturing related change controls

• Oversight and tracking of Quality Events (change controls, change actions, CAPA's, deviations, lab investigations) across MST, ensuring timely follow-up based on criticality and priority.

• Standardization of Quality Record and Events management processes- establishment and stanrdadization of the relevant processes and procedures and ensuring harmonized approach across the MST teams

• Cross Functional Collaboration - serve an alliance for compliance queries/issues with external and operational QA

• Represent MST in relevant review boards, e.g. Product Quality Complaints Review Board, OOS and Deviation Review Board, Control Strategy Review Board etc.

• Support in quality audits and due diligence activities

• Quality review of MST documents- Review MST reports against the relevant source documents and ensure alignment with cGMP strandards and internal compliance requirements

• SOP & Training Material Updates: Contribute to the revision and development of SOPs, training materials, and controlled documents based on process changes and campaign learnings.

• Cross-site matrix management and compliance overview of MST outsourced activities

• Serving as the one point of contact for all compliance related information and queries within MST

• Performing activities above and beyond their responsibilities as and when required

Minimum education and experience required for the role

• Education: Bachelors/Master’s degree in a relevant discipline and direct industry experience or extensive experience in the pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical sector.
• Experience: Greater than 5 years international experience in Quality and/or Compliance Management in Biopharmaceutical or related industries. Demonstrated scientific and alliance management skills.

Originally posted on Himalayas