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Global QMS Manager

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

The Global QMS Manager has operational responsibilities within the Sodexo Pharmaceutical & Consumer Healthcare QA function.  This is a high profile role providing wide exposure to senior management, provides a unique opportunity to learn the company’s varied and diverse activities and has great opportunities for future career progression.    

Role Responsibility

  • Manage the global Pharmaceutical Quality Management System, to ensure that it meets the necessary ISO9001 standards, and that Sodexo deliver an industry leading management system.
  • Administrate the Sodexo global eQMS IT application, ensuring that the system is operated according to the correct procedures, and maintaining the system in a validated status.
  • Perform computer system validation projects (including testing) on the eQMS system, in accordance with recognised regulatory standards (e.g. FDA 21CFRpt11).
  • Implement the global QMS and eQMS solution into new Sodexo sites.
  • Deliver QMS related projects as required by Global Quality & Compliance Director.
  • Maintain communication with key Sodexo and client personnel.
  • Provide guidance and assistance to Quality and Compliance staff (Sodexo and client).
  • Conduct site visits to ensure that regulatory/client expectations are being met.
  • Conduct training QMS topics and the eQMS system to the wider Sodexo operations team.
  • Assist the Business development teams in bidding / securing new business for Sodexo. 

The Ideal Candidate

  • Candidates should have a solid grounding and practical experience in working in the Pharmaceutical environment (or other highly regulated environment).  The candidate should have a good general knowledge of working in a Pharmaceutical regulated (GxP) environemt, and the standards which must be met to assure patient safety and product quality. 
  • Reporting: Ability to write clear and accurate reports for the purposes of computer systems validation validation.
  • Analytical Skills: Must possess strong analytical skills. The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze information, identify implications of data, draw appropriate conclusions, generate viable alternative solutions to a question or problem, and evaluate the consequences of choosing each alternative.
  • As this role interacts both clients and internal Sodexo stakeholders, excellent communications skills (verbal and written) are required, with an ability to recognise the values within different cultures and acknowledge different ways of working.
  • Fluent English + other relevant major languages is an advantage 

Package Description

c£40,000 plus up to 15% bonus, 23 days holiday, 6% pension, £1,300 flex benefits

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,300 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors.

With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

Please be aware that a CRB check may be required 

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