Job Description

Join our team and be the driving force behind the success of our Stability team. As a Quality Manager, your energy, knowledge, innovation, and leadership will play a key role in delivering high standards of quality, compliance, and operational excellence.

Bring energy, knowledge, innovation to carry out the following:

• Lead and develop the Stability team through effective selection, coaching, performance management, and retention activities. You will help foster a high-performing, inclusive culture that supports personal growth and development.
• Manage the Stability budget and ensure financial compliance across the team, while building financial awareness and accountability among team members.
• Oversee stability activities, ensuring robust capacity plans are in place for resourcing and chamber management.
• Lead stability-related investigations, ensuring all regulatory requirements, notifications, and timelines are met.
• Drive compliance with company policies, procedures, guidelines, and all relevant regulatory requirements. You will ensure all Stability activities are conducted safely, accurately, and in line with current internal and external standards.
• Support effective stakeholder communication to ensure quality objectives are achieved, using operational excellence tools such as daily management and leader standard work.
• Monitor metrics and schedule delivery within the Stability Program Management team to support site Hoshin objectives.
• Provide resources and development opportunities to support the technical and professional growth of the team, while developing and maintaining effective training programs.
• Ensure strong customer focus, working closely with internal stakeholders and external laboratories to ensure testing requirements are met and timelines are achieved.
• Play a key role in the Lab Transformation programme, helping to optimise, standardise, and digitise business processes within the Stability team.
• Champion continuous improvement, driving lean initiatives such as standardised work, digitisation, and knowledge management.

What Skill You Will Bring to the Team

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Science
• You bring 5+ years of experience in the pharma industry.
• People management experience
• Stability program Experience

Our facility in Carlow site broke ground in 2008 and is a filling site for the launch and commercial supply of vaccines, biologics and small molecule drug product. Since its initial launch, the site has attracted significant internal investment and is now home to a number of state-of-the-art production facilities, laboratories and temperature-controlled warehousing units. The Carlow site is a significant employer in the South East region and attracts high performing talent through close collaborations with universities and colleges in the region

We keep the patient at the very heart of all that we do and strive to find solutions and treatments for some of the world's most challenging healthcare needs.

As an equal opportunity employer, we are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together.

Please don't hesitate to contact the Talent Acquisition Advisor assigned to this role should you need any support during our recruitment process.

We are committed to flexible working where possible, and this is why our Company has introduced a new hybrid working model for office-based colleagues around the world.

Please feel free to speak to us about what flexibility means to you during your application.

So, if you are ready to:

Invent solutions to meet unmet healthcare needs, please apply today.

Required Skills:

People Leadership, Team Supervision

Preferred Skills:

Quality Management Systems (QMS)

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

06/30/2026

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