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Aspen has a proud heritage dating back more than 160 years and is committed to sustaining life and promoting healthcare through increasing access to its high quality affordable medicines and products. Aspen has a market capitalisation of approximately US$10 billion, is the largest pharmaceutical company listed on the JSE Limited (share code: APN) and rank…
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Compliance Pharmacist (Port Elizabeth)
Overview
- Monitor manufacturing compliance to GMP and statutory requirements
- Monitor adherence to guidelines, procedures and document controls
- Deliver expected value stream targets as per business requirements
- Facility GMP compliance
- Team and process development
Responsibilities
Staff development
- Train new Pharmacists and PMAs on SOPs in transition period
- Ensure pharmaceutical and supervisory team training is compliant
- Oversee staff professional development to ensure team value add is realized
- Facilitate training sessions as required
- Mentorship and guidance to pharmaceutical teams
Product release management
- Facilitate end to end product release process withing production department
- Deviation management and adherence to daily, weekly targets
- Raise deviations, complete forms and investigations as required and implement corrective action
- Facilitate incident review process
- Maintain and update records and systems as required
- Retrieve supporting documentation and records to facilitate and support query resolution
- Ensure deviation owner allocation and re-allocation in accordance to priorities
- Ensure CAPA actions are implemented (deviations, CAPAs, Change controls)
Process and system improvements
- Continuously review process impacting manufacturing and release to identify and implement optimization measures to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Manage, review and approve change control programs and deviations/ concessions comply to standards and specifications
- Optimise processes and identify gaps in policies/ procedures
- Drive CAPA investigations in area of focus
- Implement and maintain KPIs and trackers supporting business objectives
Planning
- Plan and prioritise own and team daily, weekly and monthly activities
- Determine, request and use resources/ assets optimally
- Align activities with business and customer product release priorities
Stakeholder management
- Key interface between production and support departments with main interface being with the QA department
- Customer interface as needed to share information, feedback on open items,
retrieve guidance and facilitate priorities
GMP Compliance
- Facilitate and support audit management
- Enforce and control area compliance (personnel, documentation, process, product)
- Ensure production process adherence to standards and specifications
- Enable teams and process to achieve documentation and deviation right first time targets
Requirements
Background/experience
- BPharm Degree
- 1-3 years’ related work experience
- Pharmaceutical manufacturing experience
Specific job skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing, standards and compliance requirements
- Ability to interpret and implement policies, processes and objectives
Competencies
- Leadership
- Managing complex task and integration of multiple variables
- Interrogating information
- Meeting deadlines
- Finalising output
- Taking action
Method of Application
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