Healthcare Quality & Regulatory Compliance Advisor - AMEA

Position Summary

This position play a critical role in driving compliance and quality programs for Healthcare Transportation & Facilities and supporting the Healthcare Quality Management System to ensure processes and systems are compliant with regional and local regulations and customer requirements.

1. Quality Policies & Procedures: Determine, implement & promote policies and procedures for company’s Network and facilities (hubs & stations) to ensure compliance to standards such as GDP, GCP and others.
2. Quality Assessment & Standards: Write & review SOPs and Work Instructions for transportation & fulfilment solutions pertaining to the healthcare industry.
3. Compliance & Quality Program Management: Implement compliance and quality programs to support local Quality teams to ensure they are kept up-to-date and prepared.
4. CAPA Process Management: Lead in process creation and review of documentation on the implementation and responses to corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) and monitor action progress until closure.
5. Healthcare Quality Management System: Develop, implement & support the system and processes, develop corresponding training programs, and acts as Super User for eQMS system.
6. Internal Audit Programs: Design & implement robust internal audit processes to ensure readiness of various functions & processes when meeting regulatory agencies & customer audits.
7. Certification Audits: Lead various certification audits with relevant regulatory agencies and certification providers across the region.
8. Operations & Customer Audit Programs: Lead & prepare for regular audit programs / random checks / regulatory activities to achieve successful audit outcomes and proper post audit follow up actions.
9. Healthcare Customer Liaison: Liaise with customers to understand quality requirements / issues / underlying concerns to advise on the way forward, provide advice based on interpretations as applicable to 3PL and resolve issues via conducting root cause analysis.
10. Healthcare Quality Feedback: Liaise, consolidate feedback from different functions to update and prepare final copy for Quality Questionnaires, Agreements and RFQ Proposals for customers.
11. Validation Programs: Lead the validation of transportation lanes and critical equipment like cold chain facilities, and packaging systems.
12. Depot Support: Provide secondary / backup support to healthcare specialists for market depots.

Requirements :

1. Hold local pharmacist license
2. Have at least five (5) years of relevant experience in warehouse, quality + QMS for pharmaceutical / healthcare industry
3. Have competencies in quality assurance / regulatory affairs, customer relationship management and root cause analysis
4. Have working experience ensuring compliance in accordance to Goods Manufacturing Practise cGMP,)/, Good Clinical Practises cGCP, Goods Distribution Practice (GDP) & ISO13485 for Medical Devices, IATA CEIV and other local certifications in a warehouse and transportation business.
5. Experience in conducting external and internal audits for regions
6. Must hold at least Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from a reputable local or Australia’s institute.
7. This position require to communicate with counter part in China
8. Occasionally travel is required to sites and region warehouses.

1. Accuracy & attention to detail which is crucial to proper compliance to regulatory and standards
2. Problem-solving skills to support customer issue resolution
3. Planning & organization skills to ensure proper audit programs are managed effectively
4. Communication skills to facilitate engagements with customer and regulatory agencies
5. Project management capabilities and familiarity with Process Mapping, Six Sigma, Lean Methodology, Agile or Design Thinking
6. Apply data-driven decision making with the use of data analytics and visualization tools like Power BI and competency in Microsoft Office applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

Mon to Fri 8.30am - 6pm