The Quality Management System Associate is responsible for ensuring the Quality Systems meets the company's and legal requirements and is responsible for continuous Quality improvement activities related to activities & quality projects related to the QMS. The Quality Management System Associate acts as a backup for key quality processes.

Good Distribution Practices:

• Ensure quality incidents and deviations related to the Quality Management System and Feed activities are registered, escalated, investigated and effective Corrective and Preventive actions and Commitments are defined and implemented
• Ensure Change Controls are documented and followed-up appropriately 
• Ensure the timely (re)qualification of company's customers in compliance to local & global procedures
• Ensure relabelling protocols are created per regulatory expectations
• Act as a back-up for GDP Release Activities, GDP Return Assessments, Temperature Excursion handling and Stock Status management in the WMS and at the LSP

Supply Chain & Logistics Quality System

• Ensure company's Quality Systems are implemented and maintained in accordance with local and global procedures and regulatory requirements 
• Ensure global company's procedures are implemented in the local Quality Manual in accordance with local and global expectations and regulatory requirements
• Develop, maintain and revise local instructions and procedures related to the QMS and Feed activities in accordance with regulatory requirements
• Support non-QO departments in developing and maintaining local instructions and procedures in accordance with Quality Management System Requirements and Good Documentation Practices
• Act as Training System Representative and ensure the timely creation of training content and assignment of the training content in the Learning Management System
• Act as Document Management System Representative and ensure continuous maintenance of the Quality Manual and timely execution of periodic review activities on local instructions and procedures of the Quality Manual
• Ensure documents are archived per the local and global expectations and regulatory requirements 
• Act as Quality point of contact for activities related to the QMS, Feed, Customer Qualification and the archive.
• Ensure appropriate follow up on incidents deviations and CAPA 
• Act as responsible for all QMS related incidents; Deviations and CAPA, Change Controls, commitments
• Manage and deploy projects related to the QMS 
• Track and prevent deviation and CAPA overdues in collaboration with Operational Stakeholders
• Conduct periodic trending analysis of Quality Management System performance 
• Manages Feed activities including the management of Undesirable substances and HACCP plan management;
• Act as Risk Management Champion 
• Participation in and execution of self-inspections of procedures and systems

Compliance

• Contributes to and is compliant with related activities such as SOP’s and Training.
• Support in maintaining compliance to Feed regulation and Certification requirements and expectations

Continuous improvement

• Proactively looks for opportunities for improvement.
• Drives agreed implementation of changes that enhance performance, productivity and cost. Seeks opportunities to improve existing systems, processes and performance.
• Implement and maintain state-of-the-art Good Practice guides on the management of incidents, deviations, CAPAs, Change Controls and Risk Analysis.
• Support company's employees in documenting and investigating incidents and deviations, raising and implementing Corrective and Preventive actions, issuing and implementing Change Controls and conducting Risk Analysis as per Good Practices.