Product Quality Pharmacist

Job Function:

To ensure business compliance with the relevant regulations as Pharmacist and ensure that the operational tasks are performed as described in the relevant business procedures.

Key Performance Areas:

• Initiate, implement, review and update SOPs and Process flow to reflect the current GMP and GDP practices and business practices.
• Review QMS Index. Identify business processes that require review and ensure review is completed within the approved timeframe and in line within country regulations.
• Ensure that there is a rational/robust flow of products in the warehouse & segregation of functional areas i.e., Inbound, Outbound, Reverse logistics, Rejects, Quarantine & control substances/High Risk
• Ensure that the facility is temperature controlled and is monitored daily for both ambient and cold chain storage.
• Conduct Quality inspections on all products received into the RDC for compliance.
• Identify Product Quality Complaints and trending of damaged products received. TMD retrieval, downloads, and review.
• QA Sampling and Quarantine release
• Inventory & stock storage – ensure one product per bin, status labelling where applicable and FEFO application.
• Review and approval of all inventory adjustments.
• Ensure Compliance of vehicles to transport pharmaceutical.
• Returns process – Quality Assessments on returned goods in accordance with approved criteria, quarterly trending of reasons for returns.
• Rejected product management – ensure identification and segregation (logically and physically).
• Recall strategy – ensure recall strategy is in place and complies with PPB and Client requirements.
• Destruction – in line with local legislation
• Verification and approval of Customer accounts and vendors (Legal status).
• Update and/or notify the imperial Senior Management and Clients on problems such as Product quality complaints or non-conforming products, stolen goods / hijacks, and counterfeit stock.
• Reply on Audit reports from Imperial QA/Clients
• Initiate / ensure that non-conformances are initiated, reviewed, evaluated and closed.
• Implement systems for effective control of regulatory compliance.
• Plan and conduct internal audits in conjunction with QA (MS), according to required Standards (PPB / GWP / ISO 9001:2015) and client requirements.
• Ensure staff are trained and aware of GDP requirements.
• Review Quality agreements are in place with all vendors, holders of certificates of registration and 3rd Party Service providers where services rendered directly affects product quality.
• Compliance to Pharmacovigilance requirements: Act as the Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance and back up QPPV as appointed by clients and coordinate reporting of adverse events received from customers and report them to clients and PPB.

Qualifications Required:

• Bachelor of Pharmacy.
• Registered with the Pharmacy and Poisons Board.

Experience and Skills Required:

• Hands on experience with minimum 4 years working in a busy pharmaceutical manufacturing company or pharmaceutical distributor with excellent knowledge of Good Warehousing / Distribution Practice.
• Minimum 2 years working experience as QPPV.
• Working knowledge of the CAP 244 and Pharmacy rules.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what's possible.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

EEO Statement

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