Advisor-Quality Assurance

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.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Position Description:

Provides Quality Leadership and GMP Compliance Guidance for global R&D functions, Project teams and thereby supports new global product development, registrations, licensing, technical transfers and product launches.

This position develops strong partnerships and positively influences the various R&D functions, Project teams and CMO’s to provide guidance and support on overall quality strategy and to meet requirements of both Elanco and applicable regulatory authorities.

Proactively seeks solutions to lead and drive quality compliance through implementation, monitoring and improvement of Elanco Quality Systems, training and compliance tools, with expert focus on Technical Development activities.

Functions, Duties, Tasks
1. Provides Quality Leadership to R&D functions and project teams at a global level.

Assures adequately trained and knowledgeable quality resources are available to support R&D for projects assigned.
2. Drives Quality Excellence in Global R&D and QA teams with expert focus on cGMP and non-regulated oversight.

Develops and executes components of Quality plan, self-inspection and supports Quality metrics together with business functions. 
3. Independently evaluates scientific, business and quality aspects of global projects and procedures to positively influence business partners and outcome.

Recognized as expert in quality compliance for non-regulated, cGMP and proficient in other regulated areas such as Quality Management Systems.
4. Build strong relationships with internal and external business partners in R&D, TS/MS, CMOs/TPOs and Quality.

Interacts with customers, regulators and outside stakeholders. 
5. Applies depth and/or breadth of technical experience and scientific knowledge to find customer-oriented and fit-for-purpose solutions for projects and process challenges around quality issues. 
6. Sets overall quality and compliance strategy for R&D projects in consultation with the project teams.

Provides guidance to and supports the project teams throughout the entire development program.
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