Job Description
The Position
Are you passionate about ensuring the highest quality standards in the Animal Health industry?
In this role, you will take ownership of end-to-end Quality Management for CMOs, Suppliers, and products (including Veterinary Medicinal Products, CAW products, veterinary devices, and APIs) across the EU region. You will play a key role in ensuring compliance with current regulatory requirements and BI corporate standards while driving continuous improvement of our Quality Management System.
Tasks & responsibilities
- As part of your role, you will ensure CMOs' business continuity by managing PQRs, change controls, deviations, CAPAs, stability monitoring, audits, complaints, QAAs, CMO ratings, risk management, and product extensions.
- Taking ownership as the Product Expert, you will work to prevent and resolve quality issues, escalating conflicts to the 3PQM EU Head to minimize risks and ensure timely resolutions.
You will ensure regulatory compliance by managing KPIs, conducting investigations, audits, recalls, change controls, and effectiveness checks throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Furthermore, you will play a vital role in fostering and improving the Quality Culture within CMOs by conducting Quality Management Reviews, organizing training sessions, performing technical visits, facilitating periodic meetings, supporting Quality Audits, and collaborating with Supply Chain, CMO Management, and Regulatory Affairs.
- Managing all quality-related requirements for CMO Management, you will assist with regulatory agency interactions (e.g., FDA, EMA), recommend product release/rejection, and advise on halting production to ensure compliance and quality.
- Acting as a key interface for the quality team, you will manage multiple parallel topics with conflicting priorities while collaborating with various internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Pharmacy, Chemistry or Engineering with serval years of experience in a Pharmaceutical Quality cGMP environment
- Expert knowledge of global quality requirements (FDA and EMA regulations), their effect on manufacturing and testing of pharmaceutical, veterinary medicinal and CAW products and devices
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills (to lead, motivate, influence, coach, escalate, build relationships) and ability to keep the oversight of multiple different projects in different stages at the same time
- Solid analytical skills, ability to solve practical problems, even in changing situations
- Willingness for national and international business trips
- Fluent English is required. German, French or Spanish are beneficial
Applications from persons with severe disabilities are warmly welcomed. In cases of equal qualifications, such applicants will be given preferential consideration in the selection process.
Ready to contact us?
If you have any questions about the job posting or process - please contact our HR Direct Team, Tel: +49 (0) 6132 77-3330 or via mail: hr.de@boehringer-ingelheim.com
Recruitment process:
Step 1: Online application - The job posting is presumably online until May 05th, 2026. We reserve the right to take the posting offline beforehand. Applications up to April 20th, 2026 are guaranteed to be considered.
Step 2: Virtual meeting in the period from beginning till end of MAy
Step 3: On-site interviews beginning of June (CW 24)
Please submit your application documents in English.
