Sr. Manager, Quality Validation

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Sr. Manager, Quality Validation

Title: Sr. Manager, Quality Validation

Reports To: Head, Quality Operations, North America

Location: Richmond, VA

Indivior is a global pharmaceutical company working to help change patients' lives by developing medicines to treat opioid use disorder (OUD). Our vision is that all patients around the world will have access to evidence-based treatment for OUD and we are dedicated to transforming OUD from a global human crisis to a recognized and treated chronic disease. Building on its global portfolio of OUD treatments, Indivior has a pipeline of product candidates designed to expand on its heritage in this category. Headquartered in the United States in Richmond, VA, Indivior employs approximately 500 individuals globally. Visit www.indivior.com to learn more. Connect with Indivior on LinkedIn by visiting www.linkedin.com/company/Indivior. 

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Sr. Manager, Quality Validation is responsible for developing validation strategy for Indivior and third-party manufacturing, packaging and testing. This role ensures compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and develops company policies for validation of equipment, utilities, processes, computer systems, cleaning, and facilities.  The Sr. Manager, Quality Validation will serve as the validation subject matter expert (SME) within Indivior.  The Sr. Manager, Quality Validation interacts with the local site validation teams to provide the strategy as well as execution, as needed. This position is critical for maintaining product quality, patient safety and compliance with regulatory standards within the US and Most of World. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

The responsibilities of this job include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop, implement and maintain the Indivior validation policy and validation master plan
• Lead validation activities for process validation, sterile manufacturing, oral solid dose, utilities, and computer systems
• Oversee validation activities at third party CMO/CPO to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements
• Author, execute, review and approve validation protocols, summary report and supporting documentation
• Ensure validation activities meet Annex 1, FDA, EMA and ICH requirements
• Maintain validation systems in compliance with cGMPs and global regulations
• Support regulatory inspections, audits, and due diligence reviews as the SME for validation
• Partner with CMOs to ensure validation programs are robust and compliant
• Collaborate cross functionally with Quality, Manufacturing, Regulatory and IT teams to align validation strategies with Indivior goals
• Implement risk-based validation approach as applicable to improve efficiency
• Identify and drive opportunities for system and process improvements
• Ensures that validation documentation provided by third party suppliers complies with all required Indivior and Regulatory standards
• Lead or support the development of User Requirement Specifications (URSs)
• Lead or support factory acceptance tests and site acceptance tests, review protocol, approve protocol, participate in FAT/SAT execution, review and approval FAT/SAT final report
• Lead or support risk assessments associated with validation equipment and process validation activities
• Support engineering studies led by the Technical Operations/Engineering Teams/CMC internally and externally w/CMOs/CPOs
• Support any regulatory requests pertaining to updates to the regulatory dossier associated wi