Quality Assurance Group Leader

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies is the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organization services. It is one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organizations.

It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6,515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Eurofins BPT-Columbia is looking for a Quality Assurance Group Leader to join our Quality Assurance team located in Columbia, Missouri. The QA Group Leader position is a mid-level professional position responsible for planning and managing the quality assurance group or program with the goal of improving quality processes and ensuring regulatory compliant development and testing services with Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) and/or Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) regulations.

Works in GLP and/or CGMP areas of compliance.

• Responsible for management of day-to-day quality assurance activities within assigned team. Serves to mentor, guide, advise, and otherwise support staff in their work. Includes appropriate training and instruction.
• Review staff work as necessary prior to submittal and sign-off.
• Formulates and maintains quality assurance goals and objectives complementary to corporate policies and goals.
• Interprets and communicates GLP and/or CGMP quality philosophy to appropriate personnel within the organization.
• Performs quality reviews of controlled documents to ensure GLP and/or CGMP systems are implemented consistently.
• Works with Operations and Quality Management to develop, implement, maintain and interpret Quality metrics to improve Quality Systems.
• May serve as back up to Manager, Quality Assurance in times of absence.
• Develops, implements, and reviews all quality systems.
• Mentors and trains GLP and/or CGMP quality assurance staff to develop a cross-trained staff of quality professionals. Provides guidance and mentoring in the areas of conflict resolution.
• Schedules, coordinates, and hosts client and regulatory GLP and/or CGMP audits and responds to any audit observations.
• Decides whether to accept a product or continue business with a supplier or subcontractor based on GLP and/or CGMP quality audit or review.
• Develops new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities.
• Works with quality and operations management to develop and/or implement quality system improvement.
• · Performs internal and external quality audits.
• Manages workflow and workload of GLP and/or CGMP quality assurance staff, through prioritization and planning to assure that project, facility, and vendor materials are QA reviewed and/or approved in a timely manner.
• Keeps management team informed of significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and corrective action/preventive actions (CAPA) being taken to improve the situation.
• Designs and implements quality training programs within QA and company-wide, as appropriate.
• Investigates and responds to customer complaints regarding quality.
• Drives investigations and CAPAs to completion.
• Reviews protocols, procedures, data, reports, and other documents to ensure accordance with specified regulatory requirements,…