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QA Supervisor (Compounding)

Req # JR - 170382 Location Thetford, England, United Kingdom Job Category Quality Date posted 05/14/2025
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Overview

This is where you make a difference in our patients’ safety. As a member of the Baxter Quality team, you will play an essential part in our mission of saving and sustaining lives. Quality is important throughout the entire product lifecycle and works collaboratively with all areas of the organization. Because Quality touches everything Baxter does, a role in Quality provides many opportunities for growth, learning and a successful career that has a daily impact on people’s lives.

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  • Continuing Education/ Professional Development

  • Employee Heath & Well-Being Benefits

  • Paid Time Off

  • 2 Days a Year to Volunteer

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What makes a successful Quality team member at Baxter? Take a look at some of the top traits we’re looking for and see if you’re a fit.

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  • Collaborative
  • Critical Thinker
  • Influential

QA Supervisor (Compounding)

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This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

Due to an internal promotion we have a great opportunity to hire a QA Supervisor. The Quality Assurance Supervisor will report to the QA Manager and be responsible to lead the overall QA Team in the continuous compliance of Compounding Unit to cGMP and “Specials” manufacturing requirements, local procedural requirements and Baxter Corporate policies.

Baxter Compounding manufacture life saving products such as chemotherapy, antibiotics and nutrition. The quality team play a vital role in ensuring these products are released safely and in a timely manner.

This role is Monday-Friday with flexibility on start/finish time.

Duties and responsibilities

  • Management of the QA Team including development and performance review.
  • To ensure that QA procedures are written and reviewed to reflect current practice, in agreed timelines.
  • To ensure compliance with all QA deadlines eg: worksheet review, event investigations, audit actions CAPAs and  change management.
  • Assist in the planning and co-ordination of MHRA inspectors visits and self-inspection audits with regard to renewal of licence.
  • To ensure all testing equipment is calibrated at agreed intervals and accompanying results are within specifications.
  • To manage the recruitment of new staff to agreed staffing levels, and oversee the training of new and existing staff within QA Officers team.
  • To authorise written procedures and other documents, including amendments.
  • Ensure that all QA databases are maintained.
  • Maintain all aseptic suites to the highest standards of EU GMP.
  • Perform QA review/ approval of NCR, Change Control and Validation documentation;

Experience required

  • Graduate Qualification or BTec / equivalent in Pharmacy or a scientific subject
  • Minimum three years relevant experience in a GMP Environment
  • Field of Expertise Quality Assurance, Production, Validation, Microbiology. Aseptic
  • Strategic thinker
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Able to manage and motivate a  team
  • Able to deal with pressure
  • Good time management
  • Good communicator- both verbal and written
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision
  • Able to communicate effectively
  • High degree of attention to detail.
  • Understand the importance of accuracy and flexibility
  • Ability to lead effectively and efficiently
  • Ability to deal with and resolve conflict
  • Able to demonstrate technical knowledge
  • Foster relationships and maintain open communication with the other Compounding functions

What happens next

A member of our Talent Acquisition team will review your application and be in touch within 2 weeks. Thank you for your interest in Baxter.

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Pharmacy Services, Caxton Way
Thetford
Norfolk
IP24 3SE
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Hear from Our Employees

Our company is enriched by a diverse population of individuals in more than 100 countries that work to solve, innovate, manufacture and drive better healthcare options for patients around the world.

Meet Christelle, Senior Quality Manager in Malta

“I was an Engineering Graduate with a Master's in Business Administration, and was more inclined toward working with people than with machines. When I came across an opportunity to work with Baxter as a Quality Engineer, it was the perfect combination: a manufacturing environment and a role that required me to collaborate with multiple teams daily. Baxter's mission of saving and sustaining lives gives me all the purpose and fulfilment I need.”

Meet Lorena, Senior QA Associate in London, UK

“I am registered pharmacist in the UK with experience with drug products and final product release. I am very dedicated to my work and accurate in details to ensure correct assessment is provided to our customers to ensure patients' safety.”

Meet Gary, Quality Research Manager in Singapore

“I have always enjoyed working at Baxter and I find here to be a great place to work! Management truly cares for you, and invests time and resources to support your career goals and aspirations. My current role provides me the opportunity to work with culturally diverse teams, bringing different talents together, learning from one another and working toward a common goal and mission.”

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