
Sr. Spec, Quality ECM
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as Quality contact for assigned External Contract Manufacturer (ECM) partnerships.
- Work with new ECM partners to ensure they meet Baxter quality requirements.
- Assist with the negotiation, development, and maintainance of Quality Agreements between ECM and Baxter.
- Work with Product Quality and Design Quality to execute technical transfer activities to ECMs.
- Manage Quality and Compliance related issues between ECM and Baxter.
- May participate in Health Authority inspections and Baxter audits of ECM to ensure successful inspection outcomes and maintain a constant state of inspection readiness at ECM sites.
- Perform quality risk assessments; develop mitigation actions and follow-up on CAPA implementation and monitor quality/process improvement initiatives at the ECM.
- Define applicable metrics for new ECMs. Monitor and report quality performance metrics for established ECMs.
- Ensure timely change implementation, deviation/investigation review, complaint investigations, and CAPA closures at the ECM.Review and approve Annual Product Quality Review (APQR) reports for Baxter products manufactured at ECMs
- Escalate and manage ECM issues within the Baxter Field Action process
- Work with Baxter employees across multiple global sites and functions to assess the impact of an ECM Supplier Notice of Change (SNC).
- Perform Baxter batch release for product at ECM sites.
- Set and monitor quality system requirements to suppliers within the Finished Good and Contract Manufacturing space.
- Execute SCAR management ensuring effective and timely closure. Assess quality notifications from ECMs and determine if escalation to SCARs and NCR is neededImprove/develop quality systems at selected suppliers for QMS and compliance improvement
- Support Supply Chain, Regulatory, Quality and Purchasing organization for third party suppliers related activities, as applicable