QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER at Portfolio Pharmaceuticals Botswana | Apply June 2025

QUALITY CONTROL MANAGER

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Leading and managing the strategic and operational performance of the Quality Control Department and The Laboratory, ensuring the successful delivery of business strategy and objectives, whilst adhering to regulatory compliance and achieving commercial success.

• Ensuring for GLP, prioritise, sampling, testing and release raw materials, intermediates and finished products to strict timescales, to support the business requirements.

• Sampling and testing of raw materials, intermediates and finished products using current pharmacopoeias, any associated ‘wet’ chemistry and instrumental techniques (HPLC, IR, UV), as appropriate.

• Preparing Quality reports, including analytical reports (for raw materials and finished products), Certificates of Analysis (CoA) (for finished products) and stability reports.

• Creating and executing method development and method validation test protocols for finished products and generating the appropriate analytical methods.

• Stability testing of products for new formulations and ongoing stability trials, using physical (pH, viscosity) and instrumental (HPLC, UV) techniques, as appropriate. Ensuring that procedures are carried out carefully and accurately to eliminate errors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in sciences: Pharmacy, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology or equivalent.

• Certified and experienced in operating Waters Alliance Chromatography HPLC systems running on EMPOWER 3 software and/or higher.

• QMS and Documentation experience will be an added advantage.

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Quality Control Manager in a Pharmaceutical environment.

• Proven leadership/team management skills and experience.

Competencies

• Attention to Detail

• Results Focused & takes initiative

• Fosters team work