Regional Quality Auditor

Regional Quality Auditor

City:
Salt Lake City

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

In Research and Development, we're full of highly skilled talents that include Scientists, Engineers, Medical, Clinical and Regulatory professionals - all working to create a cleaner, healthier world. With nine Centres of Excellence, we continually seek out new opportunities by using science, our entrepreneurial flare and our fearless innovation to develop and enhance our existing portfolio, never compromising on quality or performance.

We do the right thing, always, by ensuring we act with responsibility and integrity, by complying with regulatory legislation across the globe, whilst ensuring our products are safe for our consumers and are to the highest quality.

The size of our organisation means you ll have the opportunity to learn and work in different functions within R&D, giving you exposure to different disciplines, teams and environments. You will also have access to our Research and Development Academy, designed to develop our team and allow you to grow in our great organisation.

The role of the Regional Quality Auditor within the Global Supply Chain Quality Team is to perform GMP Compliance Audits of existing and External Manufacturing Organizations, Suppliers and Reckitt Corporate audits in North America. The role will conduct follow-up actions in order to drive improvement and compliance with Reckitt standards. The audit team ensures the safety and quality compliance of suppliers who provide Reckitt with materials or products sourced from this region.

Responsibilities

The primary scope of the role is:

• Act as a lead auditor to plan, arrange and complete new external manufacturing organisation audits, new supplier audits, routine compliance verification audits and Reckitt corporate audits and follows up audit actions to completion.
• Ensure all audits ensure compliance with Reckitt guidelines to minimise risk to consumers, company and brand.
• Write technical summaries and audit reports and issues reports within 28 days.
• Recommend approval (or rejection) of new suppliers and EMO’s.
• Escalate any non-standard issues through supplier QMS failures to the Quality Director – Corporate Audit and Vendor Management-EM and regional procurement leaders as necessary and ensure they are managed and communicated through the CEP process where appropriate.
• Propose quality improvements and training where required to suppliers and or EMO’s to improve vendor performance.
• Work closely with appropriate teams to collaborate on any strategic supplier initiatives as a result of site non-conformances.
• Work with the Global Supplier Compliance team to support the maintenance of the ongoing supplier / EMO/ Corporate audit assessment and re-approval programme based on risk.
• Support the broader audit network for NA to ensure the area audit plan is delivered

Please note that the duties and responsibilities within this role may change over the course of employment, which will require flexibility

• Ensuring Reckitt materials and services are sourced from approved suppliers who remain safe and compliant with applicable regulations, understanding the different quality standards across the different BU’s becoming a truly BU agnostic function within the region.
• Working suppliers in North America
• Understanding different quality and regulatory requirements for the different portfolio of materials procured (API’s, Packaging, Reckitt Products)
• Working with cross functional teams to approve new and BCP suppliers/ EMO’s.
• Skills and experience of Suppliers, EMO and corporate audits.

• Available to undertake local travel as required.
• Broad understanding of quality management systems such as ICHQ7, EU GMP, ISO
  13485, ISO
  9001, ISO
  17025, and specifics…