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You'll provide quality oversight of our external manufacturing partners (CMOs), supporting activities including manufacturing, distribution, and testing, while helping to ensure the timely release of Investigational Medicinal Products (IMPs) and finished medicines for patients around the world.\nWorking closely with the Director of Quality Assurance, you'll help drive the continuous improvement of our Quality Management System (QMS), ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and embedding a strong culture of quality throughout the organisation. You'll collaborate with colleagues across multiple functions, contribute to strategic projects, and build a broad internal network, giving you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on both our growth ambitions and the patients we serve.\nWe're open to applications at both Manager and Senior Manager level. Whether you're looking to take the next step in your career or bring your existing expertise to a growing, patient-focused organisation, this is a fantastic opportunity to broaden your experience, develop your technical knowledge in meaningful ways and make a real impact on our growth and on the patients we support.\n\nOur Company\nAt Cycle, we believe that Every Single Patient Matters. This is at the heart of why we work and were looking for people to join our team who share our vision. We know that life-changing treatments need life-improving product support to match, because when you put the two together, great things can happen.\nOur core focus areas include oncology, rare metabolic, immunological, and neurological genetic conditions, where we improve existing drugs, repurpose them for new uses, and bring generics back to market. Using cutting-edge drug delivery technologies, we enhance the efficiency of treatments, offering patients greater freedom and choice.\nHeadquartered in Cambridge, UK, with a significant US presence, Cycle has scaled rapidly and was named one of the UK’s fastest-growing private companies by The Sunday Times (Sunday Times 100 2024 & Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025).\nIf you want to know more about what we do then, why not check out our website below and look at some of our patient stories: Patient Stories - Cycle Pharma\nWhat you’ll be doing in this role:\nImplement and maintain the QMS to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements (FDA, MHRA, ICH, etc.) and internal standards.\nMonitor compliance with applicable regulations and standards, including Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), and Good Distribution Practice (GDP).\nPrepare for and assist in regulatory inspection audits. \nAssess, identify, and mitigate risks associated with product development and clinical trials, ensuring adherence to best practices.\nEnsure that all quality-related documents and records for the area you are responsible for are accurately maintained, reviewed, and approved, including Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and deviation reports.\nLead initiatives for quality improvement and process optimization, leveraging data analysis and stakeholder feedback.\nPrepare and circulate quality metrics and reports to senior management, identifying trends and areas for improvement.\nSupport review and approve documents, including product specification, batch documentation, CofAs, stability data, process validation protocol and reports and packaging documentation, to ensure conformance to appropriate SOPs, GMP and regulatory requirements, including supporting QP certification.\nActively communicate and collaborate with functional areas to develop a strong working relationship and represents department on cross functional teams.\nSupport project teams as the Quality SME to address quality concerns and support product development goals.\nContribute to the discussion and creation of the annual budget, identifying spend and savings for the year ahead.\nLead the representation of the department on cross function project teams - input into discussions on budget and timelines, and ensure wider department are aware of assigned actions. \nPerform line management responsibilities for direct reports within the team.\nActs as a role model for management attributes, demonstrating focus, flexibility and creativity, and create an environment in which people are encouraged and able to model these behaviours.\nProvide suitable training and development of all direct reports/relevant stakeholders to ensure their continued professional development.\n\nThe following skills and experience will be important in helping to set you up to succeed in this role:\nBSc / MSc in Life Sciences or a related discipline or relevant technical experience.\nSignificant experience in pharmaceutical Quality Assurance, preferably within pharmaceutical industry.\nStrong working knowledge of GDP (Good Distribution Practice), GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) and GVP (Good Pharmacovigilance Practice).\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills.\nAbility to work in a proactive and autonomous manner, as well as being part of a team.\nAbility to create and maintain strong working relationships across the organisation and with external partners.\nStrong negotiation skills, and confidence in challenging co-workers or third parties, whilst ensuring relationships are maintained.\nEnthusiasm and personal initiative to solve problems, a self-starter with ability to work unsupervised. \nStrong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills, and the ability to think-outside the box.\nQuality focused and high attention to detail.\nResult-oriented and takes ownership and accountability to deliver objectives on time and to budget.\nHigh level of prioritisation and organisation to manage assigned work effectively. \n\nWhat can we offer to you:\nIn addition to being part of a great team and doing things that will make a real difference to patients’ lives, you will enjoy all the benefits that brings:\nCompetitive salary based on experience\nA collaborative high performing work environment\nPerformance based bonus\nOpportunity to join a fast growing and ambitious business\nCompany pension scheme\n100% employer paid membership for Private Health Insurance\nLife and Critical Illness Insurance\nCorporate Gym membership\nRegular team building events and an agile working environment\nDiversity and Inclusion statement:\nAt Cycle Pharmaceuticals, we are committed to creating an inclusive, respectful, positive and diverse workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, gender, age, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We actively support and embrace diversity, and we are working to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives.\nWe value your unique contributions and encourage you to join us in shaping a more inclusive future. If you require any reasonable adjustments - whether during the application process or in the workplace - we will be happy to support your needs. At Cycle, equality, inclusion, and respect are at the core of everything we do. 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