Quality, Pharmacovigilance & Quality Control Support Associate (12-month contract)

Hybrid – Toronto, ON

Introduction

Our client, a leading organization in the life sciences industry, is seeking a Quality & Pharmacovigilance Specialist to join their team on a contract basis. This role will support quality assurance, quality control and safety-related activities, ensuring compliance with internal procedures and applicable regulatory requirements. The successful candidate will work cross-functionally across quality, safety, regulatory, and medical teams, providing broad support while managing a wide range of day-to-day operational activities. This role suits a versatile, flexible professional who thrives on multitasking in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

- Support pharmacovigilance and quality processes in accordance with company procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Review, process, and maintain safety and quality-related documentation, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
- Monitor, document, and escalate product complaints, adverse events, deviations, and other quality-related incidents as required.
- Assist with investigations, root cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), and follow-up activities.
- Maintain accurate records and data within relevant quality and safety management systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, including regulatory affairs, medical affairs, quality assurance, and operations teams.
- Support audits, inspections, and compliance activities, including document preparation and follow-up actions.
- Ensure adherence to applicable regulations, guidelines, standard operating procedures, and quality standards.
- Respond to internal and external inquiries related to quality and product safety processes.
- Manage 3PL documentation request follow-ups and metrics/TempTale reconciliation, including pre-review of temperature excursion and destruction records.
- Maintain reference document management processes,



including all Veeva QC document uploads and approvals (e.g., SOPs).
- Oversee proof-of-delivery (POD) tracking and resolution.
- Manage shipping notifications and forecasts, including pre-review of Certificates of Analysis (CoAs) for tickets and coordinating ticket requests with sites, assessing quality impact.
- Provide broad, hands-on administrative support to the quality team, flexibly balancing shifting priorities across QA, PV, and QC functions.

Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Chemistry, or a related discipline.
- 3–5 years of experience in pharmacovigilance, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory affairs, or related pharmaceutical/biotechnology environments.
- Understanding of GxP, pharmacovigilance, and/or quality management principles.
- Experience reviewing technical, scientific, or regulated documentation with robust attention to detail.
- Highly versatile and flexible, with a proven ability to multitask and manage multiple competing priorities — including administrative and logistics-related tasks — in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Proficiency with electronic quality, safety, or data management systems is considered an asset.
- Experience supporting both quality and pharmacovigilance activities within a small or mid-sized organization is considered an asset.
- Experience with logistics/shipment coordination, proof-of-delivery tracking, and electronic quality/document management systems (e.g., Veeva QMS) is considered an asset.

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📌 Quality, Pharmacovigilance & Quality Control Support Associate (Toronto)
🏢 Brunel
📍 Toronto