Vacancy title:
Quality Assurance Officer

Jobs at:
Edes & Associates

Deadline of this Job:
21st September 2018

Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

Summary
Date Posted: 19th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

JOB DETAILS:

Reports to: Executive Director
Edes & Associates is a global professional services firm, providing quality, tailored and innovative audit, assurance and advisory services to both public and private sector institutions at local and international level. The firm’s expertise in financial management and project management consultancy and advisory work in developing economies is unrivaled. With offices in Kampala, Abuja and London and an extensive network of associate consulting firms worldwide, Edes & Associates is able to swiftly mobilise multi-disciplinary expert teams in several countries to assist you and your business. They are recruiting for a client who is committed to improving lives through providing efficient and sustainable health care supply chain management solutions through delivering life-saving medicines equipment and other medical supplies to over two million Ugandans.

Job Summary: The Quality Assurance Officer will mainly develop proactive approaches quality assurance to certify that quality policies, procedures, programs and systems meet applicable regulatory requirements and are consistent with internal Quality Assurance goals, initiatives and meet requirements on donor supported projects.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implement Quality Assurance Quality Management System policy and procedures.
• Ensure product sampling, documentation and submission of samples to prequalified quality control laboratories.
• Track and investigate product complaint handling. investigations and reporting.
• Develop and share monthly reports on product quality assurance with Management.
• Support the ISO Quality Assurance team in planning and implementation of 150 activities.
• Participate in eGMP inspection of suppliers‘ plants and advise management on the quality at the manufacturing and quality assurance processes.
• Liaises with the Quality Assurance team to ensure that incidents are properly reported and support the implementation of adequate measures to avoid reoccurrence.
• Manage the root cause analysis and corrective actions process of supplier incidents

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Sciences; Chemistry, Biochemistry, Pharmacy.
• Post qualification training/certification in Quality Assurance
• Three to five years of professional experience in quality Assurance field
• ISO Standards
• Quality assurance project management
• Good pharmaceutical storage and distribution practice
• Good manufacturing practice
• Pharmaceutical quality control guidelines
• Attention to detail
• Strong analytical skills.
• Good presentation skills
• Ability to manage people
• Organizational skills
• Proficient in Microsoft office