QC Supervisor - Analytical Support
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Description
Job Description
QC Supervisor - Analytical Support
Location: Romford
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm, 37.5hrs per week.
Right to Work: Sponsorship not currently available
What You Will Do
Under the guidance of the Quality Control Analytical Lead, the Analytical Support QC Supervisor leads/supervises the analytical support function within the QC laboratory, focusing on method development, validation, technical troubleshooting, and scientific support for product lifecycle activities. This role ensures the laboratory provides timely and expert analytical input to support manufacturing, quality investigations, and new product introductions, separate from routine batch release testing. The supervisor ensures all activities align with cGMP, regulatory expectations, and internal quality standards at our Romford site.
Your Key Responsibilities Include
QC Supervisor - Analytical Support
Location: Romford
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 4:00pm, 37.5hrs per week.
Right to Work: Sponsorship not currently available
What You Will Do
Under the guidance of the Quality Control Analytical Lead, the Analytical Support QC Supervisor leads/supervises the analytical support function within the QC laboratory, focusing on method development, validation, technical troubleshooting, and scientific support for product lifecycle activities. This role ensures the laboratory provides timely and expert analytical input to support manufacturing, quality investigations, and new product introductions, separate from routine batch release testing. The supervisor ensures all activities align with cGMP, regulatory expectations, and internal quality standards at our Romford site.
Your Key Responsibilities Include
- Supervise a team of analysts providing analytical support, ensuring work is prioritised, scheduled, and completed in a timely and compliant manner.
- Oversee method development, optimization, validation, and transfer activities in collaboration with internal stakeholders and external partners.
- Monitor team workload and performance, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met. Ensures compliance to all SOPs and maintains SOP training matrix.
- Provide expert troubleshooting support for analytical methods and instrumentation.
- Act as a technical subject matter expert for analytical methods and laboratory instrumentation. Demonstrate competency in most of test methods, analytical techniques and product preparation methods.
- Review and approve analytical protocols, reports, and technical documents in accordance with cGMP and regulatory requirements.
You will be an experienced QC professional with a strong background in a pharmaceutical laboratory environment. You’ll have a good understanding of GMP and be confident working with analytical techniques and equipment. The role holder will be someone who takes pride in doing things properly, with a strong eye for detail and a practical approach to solving problems. You’ll also be comfortable supporting others in the team, sharing your knowledge, and helping people develop. We’re looking for someone who is organised, approachable, and able to manage changing priorities. You’ll work well with others, communicate clearly, and bring a positive, committed approach to your work.
Basic Skills And Qualifications
- Degree in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
- Substantial experience in a GMP-regulated QC laboratory within the pharmaceutical industry.
- Supervisory, mentoring, or team leadership experience.
- Strong technical knowledge of analytical instrumentation, such as HPLC, GC, FTIR, or UV.
- Good understanding of GMP, ICH guidelines, data integrity, and regulatory standards.
- Strong leadership, communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills.
- A competitive salary
- Holiday – 25 days rising to 30 with length of service plus bank holidays
- Holiday Buy/Sell – an opportunity to buy or sell up to an additional 5 days’ holiday
- 5% Bonus - in addition to our competitive salaries, all our employees are entitled to join a discretionary bonus scheme (based on policy eligibility)
Ethypharm is a leading mid-sized international pharmaceutical company, with strong European roots, that manufactures and provides essential medicines, with a focus on hospital care, central nervous system (severe pain and addiction) and internal medicine.
Ethypharm has 1,700 employees dedicated to its various pharmaceutical activities, of which 1400 are in industrial operations. Our six production sites located in France, the UK, Spain, and China have expertise in injectables and complex oral solid forms.
At Ethypharm, you will be a part of a team dedicated and committed to improving patients’ lives.
Our Romford facility located 20 miles from the centre of London, consists of over 6700 square metres of a high-quality, modern pharmaceutical facility where we mix, fill, sterilise, inspect, pack, and label a wide range of medicines.
Why Ethypharm?
We provide a workplace which is one of collaboration, teamwork and innovation. We are all different and we embrace this uniqueness in each and every one of our employees. Our commitment to you is that we want to help you unleash your full potential by supporting your training and development. We want you to be the best that you can be.
At Ethypharm we recognise the value of diversity in the workplace and provide equal opportunities for all. We are always open to discussing flexible working arrangements where this meets with the needs of our business.