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Assoc Dir Global Quality Function - 3544

Date:  Oct 22, 2025
Location: 

Bangalore, India, 560064

Company:  Teva Pharmaceuticals
Job Id:  64643

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

  • Ensures that the Product Quality Reviews / Annual Product Reviews for Teva products are completed in a timely and compliant manner as per Teva’s CORP Quality Management systems. PQR/APR compilation and approval must be well associated with the Teva Manufacturing Sites, Global Quality Units and Commercial affiliates to meet the targets and ensure compliance.
  • Ensures timely and accurate data migration in collaboration with sites and Global IT / IT Quality
  • Ensures timely review of CMC documentation in collaboration with Global R&D sites
  • Defines team operating standards and ensures essential CORP and local procedures are followed based on knowledge of own discipline.
  • Manages and supervises a team of up to 100 professional employees consisting of sr. managers, managers, authors reviewers and approvers.
  • Is accountable for the performance and results of a teams within the function Global Quality GBS.
  • Creates and adapts departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges.
  • Ensures that decisions are guided by CORP policies, procedures and Global Quality´s business plan.
  • Receives guidance from Senior Director Quality Strategy and Shared Services, SVP Global Quality, other Managers in Quality Strategy and Shared Services, Global R&D, Global IT, EMSO Quality affiliates, Commercial Quality EU & IM, TGO sites.

How you’ll spend your day

A.Review and approval of PQR’s

The owner of the function

• Review of  Annual Product Reviews (APRs) / Product Quality Reviews (PQRs) for products supplied by external vendors and manufactured at external manufactures
• Conduct review of (APRs) / Product Quality Reviews (PQRs) prepared by team members to ensure high quality of the reports prepared by the team.
• Recommend actions and communicate to stakeholder   for identified actions as part of the review process to  improve quality of products(CAPA)
• Approve Annual Product Reviews (APRs) / Product Quality Reviews (PQRs) which do not require approval step by any other TEVA /non-TEVA stakeholder like QPs, RPs or FvPs.
• Support and guide in escalation of PQR issues and initiate and conduct meetings / telecons if required on priority.
• Escalate the issues of the team to higher management for non-responsive CMO’s and TEVA’s internal stake holders

B.Data Migration

• Ensure Data Migration is performed in accordance with TEVA requirements in the pre-given timeline and accuracy
• Support and guide in escalation of DM issues and initiate and conduct meetings / telecons if required on priority.
• Escalate the issues of the DM team to higher management for non-responsive TEVA’s internal stake holders, missing resources, missing commitments etc.

C.R&D CMC Documentation
• Ensure review of CMC documents received from R&Ds is performed in accordance with TEVA requirements in the pre-given timeline and accuracy
• Support and guide in escalation of issues and initiate and conduct meetings / telecons if required on priority.
• Escalate the issues to higher management for non-responsive TEVA’s internal stake holders, missing resources, missing commitments etc.

D.Quality Management Systems

The owner of the function

• Ensures that the local quality management system is maintained at GBS Quality function.
• Ensures that the local Quality Management System is compliant with respective regulatory guidelines and TEVA´s CORP QMS (Gap Assessments)
• Approves process of change controls and deviations
• Approves local SOP’s and its related documents.

E.Performance Management

• Monitors and compiles the KPI scores of the various business units and supports the team to improve their efficiency. 
• Participates in the customers council meetings and supports the effectiveness of the councils.
• Leads or participates in the Monthly Quality Council and enhances the effectiveness and efficiency of it by suitable reports/metrices and continuous improvement.

F.Training

The incumbent 

• Approves Training Materials for GMP training and on the job training.
• Imparts training on procedures as needed. 
• Reviews the training status of the team and regularly verifies that training was performed in time and successfully. 
• Certifies trainers and self-inspectors to enable them to impart training and conduct self-inspection.


G.Miscellaneous Support

The owner of the function is responsible for

• Hiring of new Headcount and monitoring the Head count status 
• Maintaining Employee Central and other relevant Master Data
• Liase with Finance related to the HC cost
• Responsible for approval of PR’s related to purchase of PQR’s.
• Review the invoicing cost involved with respect to the status.
• Approval of POs in SAP- for hiring and other requests like purchase orders for costs involved in updation of software 
• Review monthly report to be presented to higher management

Your experience and qualifications

• More than 15 years of experience in QA / QC function in the pharmaceutical industry
• More than 5 years of experience in a managerial role
• Well-founded knowledge on worldwide cGxP regulations
• Excellent English language skills, other language skills could be helpful
• Very Good communication skills and ability to work in a matrix structure
• Very good knowledge of Computerised Systems in TEVA´s IT landscape (Track-Wise, SAP, LIMS, Global Insights, Glorya etc.)
• Good understanding of manufacturing, QC and Contract manufacturing processes
• Engagement to drive improvements and ability to manage complexity
• Mobility

Reports To

VP Global Quality SMSO

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