Senior Director of Quality

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets. At Elanco, we are driven by our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life and our purpose – all to Go Beyond for Animals, Customers, Society and Our People.

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Your role :

The Site Quality Leader owns the Quality function, including Quality Assurance and Quality Control, at the Speke Manufacturing operation.  The incumbent will be responsible for directing the efforts of an overall Quality organization of roughly 50 personnel.

Reporting to the SMN Global Quality Leader, with dotted-line reporting to the Site Head, the Site Quality Leader is responsible for providing technical, regulatory/compliance, and strategic leadership for the Quality function  Site Quality Leader role is accountable for all Product Quality, Compliance and Quality Systems activities for all commercial products at the site.  Additionally, this role is accountable for development, launch and commercialization of new products in collaboration with Elanco R&D and other relevant functions.  

This role is a core member of the Speke site leadership team who collectively steer the business mission of the site.

The role is integrated within the wider network Quality leadership team, which sets the Quality strategy for the function across Elanco.

Your Resposibilities:

Ensures all aspects of Quality Management for applicable regulatory bodies are carried out according to the standards defined and are regularly reported and assessed for adequacy of performance.

Manage/support the resolution of quality and technical problems in alignment with global standards

Ensure that  all-critical and major issues, which may have an adverse effect on the quality of the product, are escalated as per standard procedures to management and are resolved within stated timelines.

Responsible for notifying the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) Rapid Alert network () immediately upon discovering or suspecting a product defect that could compromise the safety, quality, or efficacy of a batch.

Support Development of the Quality Strategy and the Quality Planning. Develop Site/Hub Quality Plans. Track implementation, maintenance and review of these Q plans

Assess and drive readiness for HA inspections (PAI, directed, other)
Ensure that GMP follow up actions for audit/inspection observations are tracked and actioned

Prepare and manage organizational Quality budget

Provides oversight and resourcing where applicable within the organization for projects (transfers, launches, due-diligence, other) – providing support where needed to ensure compliance with the Elanco Q System, and to facilitate issues escalation and resolution.

Assure appropriate quality governance through performance of management reviews of quality KPI’s, metrics, process performance indicators and quality system signals. Initiate corrective actions when necessary and perform follow-up on resulting measures.

Support deployment of operational excellence strategies to drive lab and site wide productivity.

Work closely with Manufacturing and Supply Chain partners to assure business and quality objectives are achieved at sites and that a…