QA Compliance Lead (m/f/d)

Key responsibilities:

• Provide overall leadership and strategic oversight of Quality Compliance activities across the site in line with cGxP requirements
• Act as the senior quality authority for audits, inspections, and health authority interactions, ensuring sustained inspection readiness
• Own and continuously develop the Quality Management System (QMS), including deviations, CAPAs, change control, and data integrity
• Lead and govern GxP risk management, incident management, and compliance remediation activities
• Ensure effective regulatory and quality oversight of site activities, suppliers, and service providers
• Drive a strong quality culture, serving as a role model for integrity, accountability, and patient focus
• Partner closely with senior stakeholders across Manufacturing, Technical Operations, Regulatory, and Global Quality
• Coach and develop senior quality professionals, ensuring sustainable expertise and succession within the organization
• Champion Lean Leadership and operational excellence initiatives.

Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, we work to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach 296 million people worldwide. We want to create an inclusive workplace where every one of us can be our best and true selves, so that together we can discover more, reach underserved communities and reimagine medicine.