4 days ago

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Sr. Associate - Quality Control - Dry EM Puerto Rico, Carolina

$51k - $148k

Eli Lilly

Remote

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Responsibilities

The Principal Associate – QC employee for Dry External Manufacturers (CMs) provides quality laboratory oversight, assistance, and initial guidance to issues such as non-conformance investigations, change control proposals, method transfer, specifications, validations, and other duties associated with daily CM laboratory activities.  This role provides and assures compliance to established quality policies by resolving identified procedural gaps and works with Joint Process Teams to assure the CM maintains a state of control with regards to laboratories. This role is integral for maintaining GMP compliance, providing support as applicable during preparations for pre-approval/general inspections by various agencies, and launching new products, processes, and CMs.

A specific focus for this role is Laboratory activities, which provides oversight, assistance, and guidance to CMs and other External manufacturing team members for laboratory activities.

Key Objectives/Deliverables:

  • Participate in the review of local procedures related to Lilly quality standards and provide redlines to ensure quality attributes are met.
  • Provide support to launch new products/ packages/ CMs.
  • Support the operational control strategy.
  • Provide technical leadership and project management oversight to drive improvements to CM laboratory quality systems.
  • Provide oversight to the Dry External Manufacturing stability program, including protocols, studies, metrics, as well as routine review of the data.
  • Build and maintain strong working relationships with CM key personnel.
  • Support CMs effort to maintain and improve their quality systems, including consulting with CM laboratories to understand Lilly laboratory quality requirements.
  • Provide initial consult guidance and quality oversight of manufacturing issues, deviations, change controls and counter measures.
  • Be the change owner as appropriate for analytical method, specification, or stability protocol revisions.
  • Partners with Joint Process Teams on CM lab processes; attend meetings as needed.
  • Work with Lilly support groups to resolve product related issues.
  • Provide support on site or remotely before, during and after Lilly internal audits (GQAAC audits).
  • Routinely have face-to-face communications with CMs.
  • Execute SOP/methods assessments of CMs and track completion of outstanding issues.
  • Review/approve laboratory GMP documents, including testing methods, procedures, change controls, method transfer/validation protocols, analytical standards, stability data, and associated reports.
  • Provide guidance and quality oversight of laboratory issues, deviations, OOS/OOT, change controls and countermeasures.
  • Coordinate the supply of reference standards to CM labs, as applicable.
  • Support/oversee implementation of analytical method and specification and change request for labs supporting final product release testing.
  • Support ongoing maintenance of analytical methods and specifications.
  • Provide and coordinate designated sections including trend analysis of analytical data for Annual Reports and Annual Product Reviews.
  • Advise Dry External Manufacturing QA Management and JPT on technical laboratory issues.

Basic Qualifications

  • Education:
    • Bachelors degree in a science related fields such as Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biological Sciences or related Life Sciences
  • Experience:
    • 3+ year of experience in Pharmaceutical Quality Control
    • Demonstrated relevant experience in a GMP facility
  • Skills:
    • Technical understanding of cGMPs and the Global Quality Standards.
    • Knowledge of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Operations preferably on Dry products (capsules/tablets).
    • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
    • Teamwork and interpersonal skills exhibited across functional areas.
    • Ability to organize, prioritize, multi-task, and influence diverse groups.
    • Strong decision making and problem-solving skills.
    • Technical knowledge of laboratory quality systems, methods, and equipment.
    • Strong compliance mindset and sound judgment.

*Position level and salary will be commensurate with experience*

Additional Skills/ Preferences

  • Experience in electronic quality systems preferred (Darwin/LIMS, GPCMS, CAPA, SAP, Trackwise).
  • Understanding of Micro/Sterility Testing
  • Knowledge regarding Specification and Materials/Supplier Management
  • Demonstrated knowledge regarding product stability and program oversight
  • Project management skills
  • Coaching and mentoring skills

Important Notice: In order to maintain the excellent reputation of our company, the quality of our products, and the safety of our working environment, the company will take all reasonable measures to ensure that drug abuse by employees or other persons does not jeopardize the safety of our operations or the quality of our products or adversely affect in any way the company or its employees. The company recognizes that drug use both on and off the job can be detrimental to the company and its efforts to provide a drug-free workplace. Even if prescribed under a state medical marijuana law, marijuana remains illegal under federal law. Marijuana is considered unauthorized by Lilly.

Additional Information

  • Shift is days, but off-hours may be necessary to support operations.
  • Travel is possible, up to 30% in US/OUS.

Lilly is dedicated to helping individuals with disabilities to actively engage in the workforce, ensuring equal opportunities when vying for positions. If you require accommodation to submit a resume for a position at Lilly, please complete the accommodation request form (https://careers.lilly.com/us/en/workplace-accommodation) for further assistance. Please note this is for individuals to request an accommodation as part of the application process and any other correspondence will not receive a response.

Lilly is proud to be an EEO Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.


Our employee resource groups (ERGs) offer strong support networks for their members and are open to all employees. Our current groups include: Africa, Middle East, Central Asia Network, Black Employees at Lilly, Chinese Culture Network, Japanese International Leadership Network (JILN), Lilly India Network, Organization of Latinx at Lilly (OLA), PRIDE (LGBTQ+ Allies), Veterans Leadership Network (VLN), Women’s Initiative for Leading at Lilly (WILL), enAble (for people with disabilities). Learn more about all of our groups.

Actual compensation will depend on a candidate’s education, experience, skills, and geographic location.  The anticipated wage for this position is

$51,000 - $148,500

Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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