Senior Director, Global Quality Operations - Switzerland

Senior Director, Global Quality Operations leads global quality operations for clinical and commercial medicinal products, overseeing CMOs and external partners across intermediates, drug substance, drug product, and finished goods to ensure supply and regulatory compliance. The role sets global quality operations strategy, resolves issues, strengthens quality systems, and builds team capability to support business and pipeline needs. It oversees quality operations for imports, market release, wholesale distribution, and safe trading of medicinal products, ensuring phase-appropriate GMP/GDP quality assurance across territories including the US, the EU/EEA, and Australia, and supporting product release, commercial strategy, and launches. The position serves as liaison between international affiliates and Apellis/Biogen entities, ensuring alignment with the global quality system and local requirements, and oversees GMP/GDP oversight of manufacturing and distribution, with emphasis on batch certification, release, inspections, vendor audits, and continuous improvement across a global matrix organization.