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QC Compliance Specialist
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Our teams produce and deliver over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines every year, ensuring every breakthrough gets to the people who need it most.
Our state-of-the-art facilities, AI-powered smart factories, and cutting-edge automation are redefining what’s possible: ensuring treatments reach patients faster, safer, and more sustainably than ever before. This is where your skills, ambition, and passion can shape the future of healthcare.
Job title:QC Compliance Specialist
- Location: Waterford, Ireland
- Job Type: Fixed Term Contract/12months
- Working Arrangements: On-site, days role
About the job
At Sanofi, we’re committed to providing the next-gen healthcare that patients and customers need.
For more than 20 years, our Waterford team has continued to grow and diversify to serve patients around the world. Today, a team of almost 800 works together at a state-of-the-art biopharmaceutical and medical device campus. Recognized through multiple local and national awards, Sanofi Waterford offers flexible working and access to a world of opportunities to grow your career at one location. As well as attractive benefits, the team enjoy access to an onsite gym and medical Centre that underpin a strong commitment to health and wellbeing.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.
Key responsibilities:
The QC Compliance Specialist has a primary role in:
- Representing QC for the processes led by QMS team at site level
- Investigating in a timely manner and resolving any quality control events, issues, or discrepancies from his/her perimeter. Implementing remediation actions from findings and CAPAs
- Managing the consolidated follow-up and Progress tracking of events (eg deviation, lab investigations), change control and CAPAs, related to QC, coordinating with respective QC areas and other involved functions, to ensure they are managed and closed as committed
- Contributing to develop, implement, and maintain an effective compliance program for QC
- Ensuring issuance and approval of appropriate local quality control documentation, when required to support the QMS processes applicable to QC, in alignment with the site QMS
- Investigating on a timely manner and resolving any quality control events, issues or discrepancies from his/her perimeter. Implementing remediation actions from findings and CAPAs
- Providing support during regulatory inspections and audits
- Leading initiatives for continuous improvement in QC, in coordination with QC excellence team
- Ensure compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) at all times
About you
To excel in this role you will need to have:
- Third Level qualification (degree in science or related discipline preferred)
- Experience in quality control within the pharmaceutical industry, including knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and regulatory requirements
- Experience in managing internal audits and external regulatory inspections, including preparation, execution, and follow-up
- In-depth understanding of pharmaceutical regulations, guidelines, and standards (e.g., FDA, EMA, ICH)
- Ability to analyze complex compliance issues, identify root causes, and develop effective solutions
- Proficiency in identifying issues and implementing effective solutions to resolve quality control problems
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey compliance requirements and updates to various stakeholders
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
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- We’re problem-solvers and pioneers. United by the belief that everyone deserves a healthier future. We create best-in-class vaccines that prevent disease and protect lives.
- Innovation drives us. From AI and mRNA to next-gen science, we push the boundaries to deliver first- and best-in-class vaccines for infectious diseases worldwide.
- Growth happens here. With bold investments in R&D and world-class facilities, Sanofians across the entire vaccine lifecycle are shaping the future of global health.
- We do what’s right. Sustainability and DE&I drive our positive global impact—because the diverse communities Sanofians represent are the patients we serve.
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