Director in Life Sciences Quality Management

Director in Life Sciences Quality Management


• Sell, lead and, together with the team, deliver high-impact projects engaging with senior stakeholders from high-profile clients in the life sciences industry.
• Develop new ideas and propositions to share with clients to secure new and expand existing projects. The projects typically include the design and implementation of new technologies, quality system processes, operating models, digital strategies and ways of working. They also include driving business performance through changing quality culture / mindsets, improving processes and procedures, benefitting from process automation and enabling insights from advanced analytics and AI. The outcomes we help our clients to deliver are accelerating development, manufacturing and commercial timelines, exploiting internal and external data through advanced analytics and machine learning, and improving quality and compliance amongst many others.
• Cover functions all across R&D, manufacturing and commercial, including quality management, regulatory affairs, product safety and medical affairs. You will also work closely with our consulting teams covering commercial, market access, supply chain and other functions across the life sciences value chain.
• Working with international clients and we will give you the opportunity to gain experience working in multi-cultural teams within Switzerland and abroad.
• Drive the growth of our capabilities and the team strongly collaborating with PwC's global network of life sciences experts and leveraging our market-leading propositions, methodologies, assets and training materials.
• Working in a fast-growing environment, which is driven by respect, collegiality, and strong team spirit (winning as team not as an individual).

• Having a master's degree in a science-related discipline plus around 9 years' experience working in life sciences, either as a consultant or within quality in R&D, manufacturing or commercial at a life sciences company.
• As experienced hire, you have a solid track record in delivering and overachieving on your projects and you can rely on your network in the life sciences industry.
• In consulting, you have experience in running large transformation projects and developing new propositions and work. In the industry, you have been exposed to many of the key steps of improving quality in regulated business functions that operate along the value chain.
• Having exposure to some of the following areas: GxP, data privacy/protection, digital strategy development, operating model design, quality system design/improvement/maintenance, process improvement, technology implementation and digital and analytics technologies in a GxP-regulated environment.

Francisca Richter

PwC Switzerland is the leading audit and advisory company in Switzerland. As an independent member of the international PwC network, we help organisations and individuals to deliver solutions and sustained outcomes in the areas of assurance, advisory and tax services.