Head of Quality Assurance – Pharma

TRIGA Consulting GmbH & Co. KG

Head of Quality Assurance leading a team in a growing pharmaceutical company. Ensuring product quality and compliance throughout the lifecycle with a focus on patient safety.

Posted 5/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇩🇪 GermanyLeadWebsite

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About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide functional and disciplinary leadership of a Quality team of approximately 8–10 employees within a defined indication.
Hold overall responsibility for all product-related quality activities across the entire product lifecycle.
Develop and implement a comprehensive quality strategy for the assigned portfolio and ensure effective deployment into operational structures.
Actively contribute to product strategy from a quality perspective in coordination with relevant interface functions.
Ensure patient safety and regulatory compliance while considering national and international requirements.
Take responsibility for quality risk management, including identification, assessment and control of quality-relevant risks.
Establish appropriate measures for early detection of errors and initiate sustainable improvement actions.
Serve as the central point of contact for quality-related escalations within the portfolio and coordinate cross-functional resolution processes.
Manage and engage relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient handling of quality-critical issues.
Monitor quality-related KPIs and derive appropriate actions for the continuous optimization of product and process quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

University degree in a natural science (e.g., Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biology) or a comparable qualification.
Several years of professional experience in Quality Assurance within the pharmaceutical industry, ideally with responsibility for product-related quality activities.
Experience in functional and disciplinary team leadership as well as in managing complex quality processes.
Solid knowledge of relevant regulatory requirements and GMP guidelines in an international environment.
Experience in quality risk management and in assessing and prioritizing quality-relevant issues across the product lifecycle.
Strong strategic thinking with the ability to proactively integrate quality considerations into product and portfolio decisions.
Confident handling of escalation situations as well as strong coordination and decision-making skills.
Structured, solution-oriented and responsible working style with a high level of execution capability.
Very good communication skills in German (min. C1) and English, and experience working with international interfaces.
High quality and sense of responsibility with a clear focus on patient safety and compliance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A dynamic, growing company with an international working environment.
A very attractive compensation model.
Open and direct corporate culture.
Internal and external training and development opportunities.
Company and team events.
Discounts with hundreds of partner companies through access to the corporate benefits platform.
Flexible remote-work models (up to 100% remote), working time account with compensatory time off, and more.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Quality AssuranceQuality Risk ManagementRegulatory ComplianceGMP GuidelinesKPI MonitoringProduct Lifecycle ManagementQuality Strategy DevelopmentError Detection MeasuresProcess Optimization

Soft Skills

LeadershipStrategic ThinkingCoordination SkillsDecision-Making SkillsCommunication SkillsProblem-SolvingStakeholder EngagementSolution-Oriented Working StyleExecution Capability