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Associate Director, Quality Systems Excellence at B. Braun Medical Inc. in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Posted in QA - Quality Control 30+ days ago.





Job Description:

B. Braun Medical Inc.


Associate Director, Quality Systems Excellence

US-PA-Allentown | US-PA-Allentown


Job ID: 2021-19246
Type: Regular Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Quality
Allentown Mfg Facility

Overview

About B. Braun

B. Braun Medical Inc., a leader in infusion therapy and pain management, develops, manufactures, and markets innovative medical products and services to the healthcare industry. Other key product areas include nutrition, pharmacy admixture and compounding, ostomy and wound care, and dialysis. The company is committed to eliminating preventable treatment errors and enhancing patient, clinician and environmental safety. B. Braun Medical is headquartered in Bethlehem, Pa., and is part of the B. Braun Group of Companies in the U.S., which includes B. Braun Interventional Systems, Aesculap® and CAPS®.

Globally, the B. Braun Group of Companies employs more than 64,000 employees in 64 countries. Guided by its Sharing Expertise® philosophy, B. Braun continuously exchanges knowledge with customers, partners and clinicians to address the critical issues of improving care and lowering costs. To learn more about B. Braun Medical, visit www.BBraunUSA.com.



Responsibilities

Position Summary:

This position directs a diverse and US centralized organization, driving compliant, harmonized quality processes and ensuring quality systems interfaces in order to demonstrate control, compliance and efficiency. Ensure quality and regulatory compliance requirements are identified, documented, integrated, and maintained to avoid gaps and ineffectiveness.

Responsibilities: Essential Duties

  • Solid understanding of the efficiencies and criticalities of all of the quality systems elements required by the regulations and standards to which BBMI complies. Work seamlessly with functional business groups to improve upon vertical and horizontal system interfaces and efficiencies to ensure compliant and effective quality system within the company.
  • Responsible for long-term strategy of the Company’s Quality Systems, incorporating best practices while maintaining alignment to Company Objectives. Determines the strategic direction for Quality Systems Excellence Programs & Deployment Management of said systems company wide.
  • Leads and drives the effort of defining the Corporate Operating Procedures and centralized processes and templates, provides direction for process improvement tools for Quality Systems to ensure the process requirements of Quality Compliance systems are integrated.
  • Creates standard informatics methods for introducing, updating, tracking and trending Quality Systems Metric. Provides standard capabilities for storing information relevant to programs for which Quality Compliance is accountable.
  • Develops the infrastructure to consistently maintain and retrieve informatics and analytics. Enables the identification of the components that make up the data sources and data sets in order to more accurately set internal Quality Systems Metrics Objectives.
  • Ensures that the Company’s Quality System policies and procedures are developed, implemented and maintained in compliance with regulatory requirements (FDA, CGMP, QSR, ISO, CMDR, MDD, etc).
  • Keeps informed of all existing and new regulatory requirements and works with Quality Operations to ensure full compliance in the Company’s Quality Systems.
  • Maintains a high degree of personal professional development through a combination internal and external training and participation in professional associations as appropriate.
  • Selects, trains, motivates and develops a highly technical staff with experience in a wide variety of disciplines to accomplish the department’s objectives. Responsible for the overall direction, coordination and evaluation of the reporting departments and functions.
  • Build and foster strong relationships and partnerships with stakeholders and support groups worldwide to meet the demands of a changing business culture and environment
  • Supports B. Braun affiliates on quality system and compliance matters, as required.
  • Serves as a key quality systems expert to functional business units and Quality Operations.

Expertise: Knowledge & Skills

  • Experience with quality assurance standards such as ISO, ICH, USP & GxP is preferred.
  • Data analysis; Understanding of informatics and analytics of quality systems
  • Statistical sampling methods
  • CGMP’s, QSR’s, ISO, CMDR, and MDD
  • Risk Management and Hazard Analysis techniques
  • Motivation methods
  • Knowledge of budgeting principles and general administrative practices
  • Thorough knowledge of management principles and supervisory practices


Qualifications

Expertise: Qualifications - Experience/Training/Education/Etc

Required:

  • B. S. in Scientific discipline
  • 10+ years of developing Quality systems infrastructure or centralized processes experience in the medical device / pharmaceutical industry
  • 5+ years experience in a quality leadership role required
  • 3+ years personnel management experience.
  • Working knowledge of all quality systems and regulatory requirements in the medical device and pharmaceutical industry
  • Leadership in partnering with Operations, R & D, Engineering, Sales and Marketing.
  • Experience in FDA inspections and strategy, cGMPs and an ability to interpret regulatory requirements
  • Ability to use sound scientific judgment in management of the facility to prevent regulatory action
  • Demonstrated track record in managing a diverse staff and establishing a clear, strategic direction
  • Ability to proactively identify and anticipate risk of non-compliance in a dynamic environment
  • Project Management experience is required, including project initiation, team development, and achieving desired results on time and on budget.
  • Experience building virtual teams globally and enterprise wide with the different business and functional groups and quality operations partners, in order to establish the organization of the future.
  • Travel to any B. Braun facility, domestic and internationally, when necessary.
  • To keep abreast of changes in the regulations, interpretation of the regulations and revising internal practices and written procedures to comply with the regulatory requirements.

Desired:

  • Advanced degree (M.S., M.B.A.)

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands to handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.



All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or other legally protected status.PI155134811
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