Quality Control Manager

Are you interested in working directly for a single sponsor while having the security and additional career opportunities that working for a global CRO can bring? Our team says it’s the best of both worlds…

ClinChoice is searching for a Quality Integrator to join one of our partner companies, a large pharmaceutical company leader in the field of biomedicines, where you will work at Groningen office in Netherlands, until 31 August 2026. The Quality Integrator will harmonize quality initiatives across multiple sites to ensure consistency, efficiency and strategic alignment. 

ClinChoice is a global full-service CRO with a strong focus on quality, professional development and supportive culture. As a client-facing role, we are looking for confident candidates with the ability to work independently whilst establishing a high-trust environment with the client counter-parts.  

Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Process Alignment: Identify differences and conflicts across site quality processes (CAPA, Change Control, Deviations, Document Control, Validation) and implement effective solutions.
  
• Synergy Optimization: Recognize and leverage collaboration opportunities between sites/functions to reduce duplication and improve cycle times.
  
• Initiative Oversight: Provide governance for three major site initiatives, ensuring alignment, risk control, and timely execution.
  
• Strategic Advisory: Detect overlapping priorities and advise Site Quality Heads and the Senior Director on integration and sequencing strategies.
  
• Centralization Guidance: Recommend and support centralization opportunities (standards, templates, shared services) to optimize resources and cost.
  
• Data & Reporting: Prepare executive-ready reports and dashboards on progress, risks, decisions, and benefits realization for the Senior Director.
  
• Risk & Compliance: Anticipate compliance risks from integration decisions; implement mitigations and update SOPs accordingly (GMP/GxP/ISO).
  
• Change Management: Lead stakeholder engagement, readiness, training, and adoption plans to ensure sustained implementation.
  
• Cross-Site Collaboration: Travel (25–50%) to facilitate on-the-ground alignment, workshops, and problem-solving across sites.
  
• Quality Systems & Regulatory Compliance (Advanced): Deep QMS fluency; harmonizes requirements (e.g., ISO 9001/13485, GMP/GxP) without compromising local compliance; ensures audit readiness.
• Process Integration & Harmonization (Advanced): Maps and compares processes; designs pragmatic harmonization roadmaps; applies “global where possible, local where necessary.”
• Program & Portfolio Management (Advanced): Structures multi-site initiatives with milestones, dependencies, governance, KPIs, and benefits tracking.
• Strategic Thinking & Priority Integration (Advanced): Integrates priorities across QA, QC, Ops, Tech Transfer, Supply Chain; translates strategy into executable plans.
• Change Management & Adoption (Advanced): Applies structured methods (stakeholder mapping, impacts, communications) and secures buy-in across diverse site cultures.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing (Advanced): Influences without authority; frames decisions with data, risk, and business impact; manages tensions between local and enterprise needs.
• Data-Driven Decision Making (Advanced): Builds/uses dashboards (deviation cycle time, CAPA effectiveness, audit findings, RFT); quantifies synergies with robust baselines.
• Risk Management (Advanced): Performs FMEA/FMECA on integration impacts; defines mitigations and escalation paths; documents rationale.
• Communication & Executive Reporting (Advanced): Crafts concise updates for leadership; tailors messaging to operators, QA staff, site leaders, and corporate.
• Cross-Site Collaboration & Cultural Agility (Advanced): Builds trust across sites; respects regulatory/cultural nuances; establishes communities of practice.
• Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement (Advanced): Applies Lean/Six Sigma to reduce variation and waste; standardizes templates/workflows; sustains gains with control plans.
• Digital & Systems Fluency (Intermediate–Advanced): Understands QMS/ERP/LIMS/MES integrations; partners with IT/CSV (21 CFR Part 11, Annex 11); leverages automation/analytics.

Education, Experience and Skills: 

• Education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Quality, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field.
• Experience: 8–12+ years in multi-site Quality leadership/integration within GMP/regulated environments, with proven harmonization or centralization delivery.
• Certifications (preferred): Lean/Six Sigma (Green/Black Belt), PMP/Prince2.
• Enterprise mindset: Prioritizes network-wide outcomes over site silos.
• Bias for action: Advances initiatives with disciplined execution.
• Structured problem solving: Resolves conflicts using evidence and clear logic.
• Resilience: Navigates ambiguity and pushback; maintains momentum.
• Integrity & compliance-first: Does not trade compliance for speed.

The Application Process

Once you have submitted your CV, you will receive an acknowledgement that we received it. If you have the requirements we need, you will be invited for phone interview as the first step.  Unfortunately, due to the number of applications we receive, we cannot reply to everyone individually if you are not successful.

Who will you be working for?

About ClinChoice    

ClinChoice is a global full-service CRO specializing in clinical development and functional solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and consumer health companies. We have over 28 years of proven high-quality delivery and results across all our services, with over 4,000 professionals in more than 20 countries across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.       

Our Company Ethos

Our mission drives our culture: to contribute to a healthier and safer world by accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative drugs and devices. Our employees are the most valuable company asset and they are the fulcrum around which all ClinChoice activities are built and close management and training is the core instrument to develop and maintain highly-qualified personnel. The continuous training keeps the resources qualified in terms of competence and expertise and gives to all personnel the clear tools needed to manage both internal and client processes with the same methodology.   The success of these core values is evidenced by our below industry average turnover rates.

ClinChoice is an equal opportunity employer. We have based our success on attracting, developing, and promoting talent guided by diversity and inclusivity. Our employees come from very diverse backgrounds: gender, race, beliefs, and ethnicities. We recognize this is our strength and celebrate it.

Key words: Quality Integrator, Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer, Quality Assurance, CAPA, Risk Mitigation Plan, CRO, Contract Research Organisation, Outsourced, Outsourcing, Sponsor-dedicated.

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