Job Description Summary
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Location: Ivrea, Italy. This role is based in Ivrea, Italy. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support: please only apply if this location is accessible.
Step into a pivotal leadership role where quality, compliance, and patient safety come together. As Site Quality Head, you will shape and safeguard the quality strategy of a complex manufacturing site, ensuring full compliance with global quality standards while enabling business continuity and innovation. You will lead and inspire a multidisciplinary quality organization, act as a trusted partner to site and global leadership, and play a critical role in Health Authority engagement and inspection success. This role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact—driving a strong quality culture, supporting launches, and ensuring that every product released meets the highest standards of safety, quality, and regulatory excellence.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead site Quality strategy ensuring full compliance with cGMP, regulatory requirements, and corporate quality standards.
* Establish and maintain an effective site quality organization, governance model, and decision‑making framework.
* Own site quality systems including deviations, investigations, change control, product quality reviews, and documentation lifecycle.
* Ensure continuous inspection readiness and successfully host Health Authority inspections and follow‑up activities.
* Act as Qualified Person (Deputy), independently overseeing batch certification and release in line with legal requirements.
* Drive strong quality risk management, escalation processes, and timely health authority notifications where required.
* Develop and embed a strong quality culture through training, self‑inspections, and continuous improvement initiatives.
* Provide leadership input for quality talent selection, development, succession planning, and launch readiness support.
* Lead, coach, and develop quality leaders and teams to ensure sustainable performance and regulatory excellence.
Essential Requirements
* Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline such as pharmacy, chemistry, biology, or a related field.
* Minimum five years of experience in pharmaceutical Quality Assurance or Quality Control within a regulated manufacturing environment.
* Strong working knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice regulations and pharmaceutical quality management systems.
* Proven experience leading quality organizations, including people management, development, and performance oversight.
* Demonstrated experience preparing for, hosting, and responding to Health Authority inspections.
* Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken, in a global and cross‑functional environment.
Benefits and Rewards
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Skills Desired
* Analytical Thinking
* Business Acumen
* Business Strategy
* Collaboration
* Communication Skills
* Data Integrity
* Decision Making
* Digital saviness
* Finance Acumen
* Industry standards Knowledge
* Leadership
* Organizational Saviness
* Risk Management
* Smart Risk Taking
* Stakeholder Management
* Storytelling
* Strategic Planning
* Strategic Thinking
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