REQ-10072787
Feb 25, 2026
LOC_CN

About the Role

Major accountabilities:

Stewardship

  • Maintain the oversight and knowledge for entire manufacturing process performed on site and throughout the entire commercial lifecycle, since transfer from development to date, act as SPOC.
  • Create and maintain a product specific Quality Risk Analysis (QRAs).
  • Monitor all critical variables and key variables as appropriate using statistical analysis and conducting regular product specific data trending.
  • Review APQR and decide on state of control.
  • Lead / support root cause investigation of process failures, initiate and lead product improvement projects, involving cross functionalteams.
  • Ensure inspection readiness for all process related aspects of assigned products.
  • Present product performance and status of product improvement projects in site Manufacturing Robustness Review Board(MRRB).
  • Owns the knowledge of specific pharmaceutical manufacturing process technologies, locally, including any pilot scale, scale up or down, and Design of Experiments (DoE).
  • Harmonize and optimize technical processes across the site.
  • Maintaining the process control strategy.
  • Define and implement validation strategy (process, cleaning, ongoing verification) and defend to authorities.
  • Overall responsibility for establishment, prioritization, execution and tracking of Validation Master Plan for process, cleaning, packaging validation and ongoing process verification (OPV), ongoing cleaning verification.

Qualification & Validation

  • Maintain the oversight and knowledge for entire manufacturing process performed on site and throughout the entire commercial lifecycle, since transfer from development to date, act as SPOC.
  • Define and implement validation strategy (process, cleaning, ongoing verification) and defend to authorities.
  • Overall responsibility for establishment, prioritization, execution and tracking of Validation Master Plan for process, cleaning,packaging validation and ongoing process verification (OPV), ongoing cleaning verification.
  • Maintain all validation activities in an inspection ready status. Product is maintained in constant state of validation
  • Author complex validation protocols.• Establish local procedures & templates for respective validation documentation.Ensure that all Site validation activities are performed and are in line with the current Novartis requirements and cGMP.
  • Handling any deviations associated to these activities including oversight of pre-validation and validation resulting fromtechnical changes.
  • Provide technical expertise (and may facilitate) pre-validation risk assessments using risk management tools.
  • Support Site MS&T Head in ensuring that responsible departments execute and maintain the VMP activities.
  • Prepare Qualification documents of equipment with leverage to Global standard Qualification approach/practice.Engage cross functions including 3rd party to ensure that all PQ activities are performed and are in line with the currentNovartis requirements and cGMP, handling any deviations associated
  • Ensure PQ activities and Documents along within project schedule and budget
  • Facilitate execution of integrated line PQ, provide insight to finalize process design.
  • Execute smoke study, VHP PQ and all PQ activities allocated

Key performance indicators:

  • Cost, C-Sat and productivity targets 
  • Achievement of project plans & milestones 
  • Internal customer satisfaction with quality of services provided 
  • Validation Master Plan (VMP) completed and up to date.
  • Product maintained in a constant state of validation.
  • Transfers/launches implemented on schedule and on targeted Quaility.
  • Validation approach meets Novartis QM requirements, health authority and industry standards
  • OOS, OOE, Deviation, CAPA, compliant, recall – process-related.• Completeness of Regulatory CMC dossier.
  • All related SOPs are updated on time.
  • Success rate of Health Authorities’ inspections.

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

  • Cross-functional experience
  • Functional Breadth
  • In-depth Technical Expertise
  • Operations Management and Execution
  • Working knowledge of applied statistics, quality systems and regulatory requirements across multiple health authorities.
  • Proven project management experience in a cross-functional environment
  • Proven process understanding (Pharma, GMP, Regulatory aspects).
  • Willing to work in workshop for validation activities in related

Languages:

  • English.
  • Chinese

Role Requirements

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DIV_TO
Production / Manufacturing
LOC_CN
Haiyan (Zhejiang Province)
FCT_TO
Full time
Regular
No
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