Act as a Qualified Person for certifying Novartis sponsorship investigational medicinal products that enter the EU/EEA when imported from a third country. Operate according to the local law (Article 52 of the Legislative Decree n. 219 of April 24th 2006 from EU directive 2001/83/CE and following modifications; Article 13.3(b) of Directive 2001/20/EC), with respect to the quality of the medicinal products, assurance of compliance to the National Medicines Law and other applicable regulations (e.g. EU GMP Annex 13, 16 and 21).
As Quality Assurance, it is required to support all GMP relevant tasks/issues (operational and strategic) by ensuring compliance according to the internal quality standards, relevant regulatory requirements, filed product quality standards and SOPs in place.
Your key responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Guarantee and certify that each batch of imported investigational medicinal product is produced and checked by the Third Party extra EU/EEA in compliance with the local and international regulations and the conditions imposed by the IMPD/IND.
• Ensure that all necessary steps have been completed under accepted pharmaceutical quality systems to assure compliance of the batch with GMP, the IMPD/IND, the MA and any other legal obligations in the Member State where certification is taking place;
• Assessment and release of imported investigational medicinal products, in accordance with national legislation;
• Guarantee that the documentation attesting the suitability of each product lot is available and can be shown at the request of the health authority;
• Evaluation of deviation investigations (related to manufacture, quality control / transport / duty of care check - document review / regulatory file compliance check / storage);
• Support regulatory inspections regarding the imported investigational medicinal product/s to ensure a satisfactory outcome for the site and business, by implementing the operations required by the inspectors;
• Interface with the managers of the various CMO functions for the assessment and resolution of any anomalies/deviations that may occur;
• Collaborate with the Function Managers to guarantee the correctness of the Quality Management System.