Quality Control Manager

Are you interested in working directly for a single sponsor while having the security and additional career opportunities that working for a global CRO can bring? Our team says it’s the best of both worlds…

Clin Choice is searching for a Quality Integrator to join one of our partner companies, a large pharmaceutical company leader in the field of biomedicines, where you will work at the Groningen office in the Netherlands, until 31 August 2026. The Quality Integrator will harmonize quality initiatives across multiple sites to ensure consistency, efficiency and strategic alignment.

Clin Choice is a global full-service CRO with a strong focus on quality, professional development and supportive culture. As a client-facing role, we are looking for confident candidates with the ability to work independently whilst establishing a high-trust environment with the client counter-parts.

• Process Alignment:
  Identify differences and conflicts across site quality processes (CAPA, Change Control, Deviations, Document Control, Validation) and implement effective solutions.
• Synergy Optimization:
  Recognize and leverage collaboration opportunities between sites/functions to reduce duplication and improve cycle times.
• Initiative Oversight:
  Provide governance for three major site initiatives, ensuring alignment, risk control, and timely execution.
• Strategic Advisory:
  Detect overlapping priorities and advise Site Quality Heads and the Senior Director on integration and sequencing strategies.
• Centralization Guidance:
  Recommend and support centralization opportunities (standards, templates, shared services) to optimize resources and cost.
• Data & Reporting:
  Prepare executive-ready reports and dashboards on progress, risks, decisions, and benefits realization for the Senior Director.
• Risk & Compliance:
  Anticipate compliance risks from integration decisions; implement mitigations and update SOPs accordingly (GMP/GxP/ISO).
• Change Management:
  Lead stakeholder engagement, readiness, training, and adoption plans to ensure sustained implementation.
• Cross-Site
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Travel (25–50%) to facilitate on-the-ground alignment, workshops, and problem-solving across sites.
• Quality Systems & Regulatory Compliance (Advanced):
  Deep QMS fluency; harmonizes requirements (e.g., ISO 9001/13485, GMP/GxP) without compromising local compliance; ensures audit readiness.
• Process Integration & Harmonization (Advanced):
  Maps and compares processes; designs pragmatic harmonization roadmaps; applies “global where possible, local where necessary.”
• Program & Portfolio Management (Advanced):
  Structures multi-site initiatives with milestones, dependencies, governance, KPIs, and benefits tracking.
• Strategic Thinking & Priority Integration (Advanced):
  Integrates priorities across QA, QC, Ops, Tech Transfer, Supply Chain; translates strategy into executable plans.
• Change Management & Adoption (Advanced):
  Applies structured methods (stakeholder mapping, impacts, communications) and secures buy-in across diverse site cultures.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing (Advanced):
  Influences without authority; frames decisions with data, risk, and business impact; manages tensions between local and enterprise needs.
• Data-Driven Decision Making (Advanced):
  Builds/uses dashboards (deviation cycle time, CAPA effectiveness, audit findings, RFT); quantifies synergies with robust baselines.
• Risk Management (Advanced):
  Performs FMEA/FMECA on integration impacts; defines mitigations and escalation paths; documents rationale.
• Communication & Executive Reporting (Advanced):
  Crafts concise updates for leadership; tailors messaging to operators, QA staff, site leaders, and corporate.
• Cross-Site Collaboration & Cultural Agility (Advanced):
  Builds trust across sites; respects regulatory/cultural nuances; establishes communities of practice.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement (Advanced):
  Applies Lean/Six Sigma to reduce variation and waste; standardizes templates/workflows; sustains gains with control plans.
• Digital & Systems Fluency (Intermediate–Advanced):
  Understands QMS/ERP/LIMS/MES integrations; partners with IT/CSV (21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11); leverages…