Materials Supplier Quality Representative

Role Overview

The Materials Supplier Quality Representative is responsible for ensuring quality assurance governance for raw materials, consumables, single-use components, and packaging materials within a pharmaceutical environment. This role supports supplier qualification, approval, and continuous performance evaluation.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide quality governance over suppliers of raw materials, consumables, single-use parts, and packaging.
• Assist with or lead the qualification and approval processes for suppliers and conduct ongoing performance reviews.
• Examine supplier documentation including questionnaires, quality agreements, and technical files.
• Perform supplier audits and conduct risk assessments to evaluate supplier compliance and risks.
• Investigate any deviations, complaints, defects, or non-conformance issues linked to suppliers.
• Manage corrective actions from suppliers and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Review changes proposed by suppliers to assess their impact on Good Manufacturing Practice operations and product quality.
• Approve material specifications, sampling strategies, and release documentation related to materials.
• Oversee processes such as receiving, sampling, quarantining, release, and rejecting supplier materials from a quality perspective.
• Review incoming material documentation, including certificates of analysis or conformance.
• Track supplier performance indicators, recurring issues, and quality trends.
• Support material qualification activities for site start-up, validation, and routine production phases.
• Collaborate closely with Procurement, Warehouse, Quality Control, Manufacturing, MSAT, and Global Supplier Quality teams.

Requirements and Desired Qualifications

• Approximately five or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Direct experience in supplier quality, materials management, warehouse QA, or managing incoming materials.
• Proven experience conducting supplier audits, qualification, managing quality agreements, and handling change notifications.
• Sound understanding of raw material controls and European Union Good Manufacturing Practice standards.
• Experience in biologics or single-use systems is highly advantageous.
• Familiarity with SAP or other material management software is beneficial.

Additional Information

This position is based onsite in Limerick, Ireland, at the premises of a leading life sciences company. The company provides a consultancy service specializing in Life Science and Engineering recruitment across Ireland.

Contact

For inquiries or confidential discussions about this role or career opportunities, contact David O'Connell at +353 86 126 3871 or via email.