VP Global External Quality

Join Us in Changing Lives At OXB, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re on a mission to enable life-changing therapies to reach patients around the world—and we’re looking for passionate individuals who embody our core values every day:
Responsible, Responsive, Resilient, and Respectful.

We’re currently recruiting for a VP, Global External Quality to join our Global Quality team. In this role, you will lead the development and execution of the Global External Quality strategy, providing oversight across data integrity, external manufacturing partners, suppliers, and client-facing quality activities, playing a key part in advancing our mission and making a real difference.

This role can be located close by one of our global locations in Oxford, UK, or Strasbourg or Lyon in France.

Your responsibilities in this role would be to:

Develop and lead the global External Quality and Data Integrity strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and the long-term needs of the external manufacturing and supplier network.

Embed a proactive quality culture across external partners by driving accountability, risk identification, compliance, and quality-focused decision making.

Lead quality transformation and continuous improvement programmes that enhance compliance, operational excellence, digital quality capabilities, risk management, and overall business performance.

Provide strategic leadership and governance as a member of the Global Quality Leadership Team, contributing to enterprise-wide quality strategy, decision making, and cross-functional alignment.

Establish and oversee a comprehensive Data Integrity programme, ensuring compliance with ALCOA+ principles, risk management, training, monitoring, investigations, and remediation across internal and external networks.

Lead Supplier Quality Management, including supplier qualification, risk assessment, quality agreements, performance monitoring, audits, governance, and supplier development programmes to drive compliance, reliability, and performance.

Provide quality oversight for external manufacturing partners, ensuring effective governance, quality reviews, performance management, and risk mitigation.

Act as the senior quality representative for clients and customers, leading quality governance, supporting audits and due diligence, resolving quality issues, and building trusted relationships that support commercial and business development objectives.

We are looking for:

Extensive experience leading data integrity programmes within GMP-regulated pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology environments.

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related scientific discipline; advanced degree preferred.

Extensive experience within the biotechnology and/or pharmaceutical industry, including senior Quality leadership roles in regulated manufacturing environments.

Strong knowledge of global regulatory requirements, including FDA, GMP, GCP and GLP.Proven expertise in Quality Management Systems (QMS) and GMP compliance.

Demonstrated experience managing regulatory inspections, audits, and supplier quality activities.

Strong understanding of risk management, validation and qualification principles, and quality performance metrics.

About Us:

OXB (LSE: OXB) is a global quality and innovation-led contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) in cell and gene therapy with a mission to enable its clients to deliver life changing therapies to patients around the world.

One of the original pioneers in cell and gene therapy, OXB has 30 years of experience in viral vectors; the driving force behind the majority of cell and gene therapies. OXB collaborates with some of the…