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Company Description
We are SGS – the world's leading testing, inspection, and certification company. We are recognized as the global benchmark for sustainability, quality, and integrity. Our 99,600 employees operate a network of 2,600 offices and laboratories, working together to enable a better, safer, and more interconnected world. Our brand promise – when you need to be sure – underscores our commitment to trust, integrity, and reliability.
SGS’s Life Sciences services support the pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare sectors with expert testing, clinical research, auditing, and certification—ensuring product safety, quality, and regulatory compliance from development to market.
Role: QA Manager
- Job Type: Permanent
- Location: Deeside
- Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday
- Salary: Competitive, plus benefits package
- Industry: Life Science
Please note: Due to the nature of the role and operational requirements, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.
Job Description
We're looking for a QA Manager to lead and develop our Quality Assurance function, ensuring the highest standards of GMP compliance, product quality, and regulatory excellence across our pharmaceutical operations.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing business where you'll play a key role in shaping quality strategy, driving continuous improvement, and leading teams that make a real impact on patient safety and product quality.
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What You'll Be Doing
As QA Manager, you'll provide leadership across Analytical QA, Manufacturing QA, and Compliance QA, ensuring quality systems remain effective, inspection-ready, and aligned with regulatory expectations.
You'll:
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of QA professionals, creating a high-performance culture.
- Oversee the site's Quality Management System, ensuring ongoing GMP compliance.
- Drive quality initiatives across deviations, CAPAs, change controls, investigations, and risk assessments.
- Review quality metrics and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Support audits, customer visits, and regulatory inspections.
- Act as a key quality partner to Manufacturing, QC, Development, and Project teams.
- Champion continuous improvement and help deliver strategic quality objectives across the site.
Qualifications
What We're Looking For
We're keen to hear from Quality leaders who have experience working within a GMP-regulated pharmaceutical environment and can confidently balance compliance, team leadership, and business priorities.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience within QA or QC leadership roles.
- Strong understanding of GMP regulations, data integrity, and quality systems.
- Experience managing Quality Management Systems and driving compliance improvements.
- Previous experience leading, coaching, and developing teams.
- Experience working within pharmaceutical manufacturing or analytical testing environments.
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Desirable
- Auditing experience.
- CDMO/CMO industry experience.
- Knowledge of laboratory, manufacturing, and compliance quality systems.
- QP training and/or Lead Auditor qualifications.
Additional Information
At SGS, we believe in rewarding our employees for their hard work and commitment. As part of our team, you would be eligible for:
- Performance-related bonus (discretionary and subject to eligibility criteria)
- Private medical cover (subject to eligibility criteria)
- Competitive pension scheme + Life Assurance
- Generous Annual Leave allowance (increasing with service) plus bank holidays
- Retailer Discounts
- Enhanced maternity/paternity and adoption pay
- Length of Service Awards
- Christmas Vouchers
- Health & Wellbeing initiatives
- An additional day off for your birthday
- Discounted Gym Membership
SGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and as such we recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job classifications without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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