Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager at Orange Drugs Limited

Orange Group is an innovative Fast Moving Consumer Goods company based out of Nigeria, with a footprint that stretches across West Africa in three key segments; Pharmaceuticals, Personal Care, Food and Beverage.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager

Location: Onitsha, Anambra
Job type: Full Time

Job Description

• The Compliance and QA Manager will be responsible for inspecting procedures, outputs, identifying mistakes or non-conformity issues and ensure products meets the established standards of quality including reliability, usability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and drive the implementation of the annual Quality Control Plan for the factory.
• Ensure that production Quality Control processes are implemented in line with approved procedures and guidelines.
• Supervise laboratory operations to ensure precision in the sample testing process for raw materials, intermediate products, final products, oil, water, gas, etc. and appropriate calibration of equipment.
• Ensure Product Quality targets are met and deviations from target quality standards are promptly identified and rectified.
• Ensure preventive maintenance is carried out on laboratory equipment and effective housekeeping is conducted in the laboratories.
• Manage the interface between the QA/QC function and other relevant departments within the plant.
• Evaluate batch record and release finished goods.
• Supervise and guide inspectors, technicians and other related staff.
• Manage complaints and monitor the corrective and preventive actions
• Ensure that self-inspection and/or quality audit which regularly appraises the effectiveness and applicability of the quality system are done.
• Ensures GMP, GLP and all other quality management systems are well implemented.
• Prepare validation master plan, conduct appropriate validation and qualifications (IQ, OQ, PQ, Cleaning validation, Process Validation, annual HVAC qualification)
• Vendor qualification and audit.
• Quality Risk Management implementation.
• Handling product recall based on mock recall practice.
• Stability testing for routine and new product development.
• Manage proper documentations of all GMP documents (SOP, validation documents, batch record, etc.).
• Develop training and monitor execution.
• Prepare and ensure all documentations for regulatory audit (NAFDAC, PCN).
• Prepare annual product review.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7 years’ work experience.
• Proven experience in the QA/QC department in an FMCG industry.
• Thorough knowledge of methodologies of quality assurance and standards
• Excellent numerical skills and understanding of data analysis/statistical methods
• Good knowledge of MS Office and databases
• Outstanding communication skills
• Great attention to detail and a result driven approach
• Excellent organizational and leadership abilities
• Reliable and Trustworthy
• Certification of Quality Control is a strong advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: recruitment@orangegroups.com using "Compliance and Quality Assurance Manager" as the subject of the mail.