Project Quality Manager (Pharma)

PROJECT QUALITY MANAGER (PHARMA)

Project Quality Manager (Pharma) required for a leading client in Switzerland.

The Project Quality Manager (Pharma) ideally has previous experience in the Pharma industry in this field (very beneficial) and needs to be up-to-date with the latest industry regulations in this area.

- Responsible for managing the results of the quality assurance and testing teams.
- Responsible for objectively evaluating processes, work products, and services against applicable process descriptions, standards, and procedures.
- Responsible for identifying and documenting noncompliance issues.
- Provides feedback to project staff on the results of quality assurance activities.
- Ensures that noncompliance issues are addressed. Ultimately accountable for QA/Testing portion of project deliverables (ie test plans, testing solutions, results, budgets, schedules, and quality).
- Determines new methods and develops new procedures for accomplishing work.
- Creates a climate of collaboration and teamwork among team members and customer groups. Interfaces with all levels of management to negotiate project priorities and outcomes.
- EXPERIENCE WITH IT STRUCTURED SOFTWARE TESTING, TESTING SPECIALIZED, TESTDIRECTOR, AND WINRUNNER. Ability to supervise staff and make personnel decisions.
- Ability to articulate the company's business requirements and objectives regarding quality.
- Ability to manage quality assurance and testing projects, schedules, tasks, and deliverables.
- Ability to effectively communicate quality issues and recommendations to improve quality to senior level IT management.
- Determines process and priorities based on the requirements of a situation.
- KNOWLEDGE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE AND TESTING PROCESSES AND TOOLS AND INDUSTRY STANDARDS ON QUALITY MODELS.
- Negotiates to resolve customer issues by seeking win-win solutions that add value to the customer. Develops unique strategies to promote the effectiveness of the group.
- Understands how the IT group operates and how his/her role meets customer needs and creates value. Identifies opportunities or problems and acts quickly and decisively to respond to the situation.
- Takes initiative to work on challenging or stretch work assignments.

In a summary: The PQM - in the project we are looking for one - is the "right hand" of the project manager, as the projects we are doing are very quality-oriented and a large part of the project scope deals with associated documentation and quality processes.