Quality PM

Major responsibilities

• Manage projects within Quality management: ensue end-to-end project lifecycle management including defining scope objectives stakeholders and success criteria; creating schedules budgets resource risk and quality plans; leading execution across teams deliver compliant outputs; monitoring progress managing changes mitigating risks and reporting status; and closing projects with outcome validation handover lessons learned and resource release
• Coordinate across Quality Functions for CMC projects: Act as the single point of contact and partner closely with CMC PMs for projects involved Quality Functions.
• Quality governance and decision enablement: Establish phaseappropriate governance (charters RACI cadence); prepare and facilitate for meetings that enable timely riskbased decisions clear accountability and effective escalation to senior leadership.
• Risk management and issue resolution: Proactively identify risks spanning process analytical supply chain compliance and GMP operations for cell therapy projects; maintain risk registers and drive mitigation plans
• Quality Compliance: Ensure documentation data integrity and procedural controls meet internal standards and evolving global regulatory expectations for Quality projects.
• Stakeholder reporting and leadership engagement: Provide structured periodic updates across departments and to senior management; deliver dashboards risk/mitigation summaries and recommendations to inform decisionmaking.
• Budget and timeline oversight for Quality scope: Forecast and manage Qualityrelated budgets and schedules.

Education Qualifications Skills and Experience

• Education: Masters degree or above in Biopharmaceuticals Biotechnology Pharmaceutical Sciences Bioengineering Chemistry or Biology. Graduates from 985/211 universities or reputable overseas institutions are preferred.
• Language and communication: Excellent English (spoken and written); able to communicate fluently with overseas teams and author high quality English documentation. Chinese proficiency beneficial for domestic coordination.
• Experience: 3 years of pharmaceutical project management with familiarity across CMC development processes. Direct project experience in cell therapy is a strong plus.
• Quality and GMP expertise: well understanding of GMP quality systems data integrity validation/qualification change control deviation/CAPA supplier/CMO oversight and inspection readiness aligned to global expectations (FDA/EMA/NMPA ICH).
• Program leadership and governance: Proven ability to lead end to end lifecycle management (planning progress tracking risk control resource coordination) and establish phase appropriate governance RACI and cadence to enable timely risk based decisions.
• Cross functional coordination and stakeholder management: Strong interdepartmental coordination skills and experience collaborating with international partners.
• Problem solving and resilience: Demonstrated issue resolution capability maintains performance under pressure and thrives in a fast paced environment.
• Operational excellence: Track record of process optimization standard work and use of digital/metrics tools to improve efficiency cycle time and right first time outcomes.
• Tools and systems proficiency: Familiar with project management tools (e.g. MS Project Smartsheet Jira) plus data visualization (Power BI Tableau).
• Certifications (preferred): PMP/Prince2 Lean Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt) and/or ASQ quality certifications; formal GMP/ICH training recognized.

Date Posted

Closing Date

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