Job Description

Project Quality Lead - Based in Royston, on-site full time

If you want to step into a high-impact quality role at the heart of product development, this is one to seriously consider.

We’re supporting an international pharmaceutical business in securing a Project Quality Lead to take ownership of quality delivery across the full product lifecycle. This isn’t a passive oversight role, you’ll be driving decision-making, influencing design, and ensuring quality is embedded from concept through to commercialisation.

Based on-site in Royston (easily accessible by train and road), you’ll be working closely with project leadership, product development teams and global stakeholders to ensure quality is never an afterthought.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll lead the quality agenda on critical projects, acting as the central point of coordination for all quality-related activities.

Expect to:

* Drive quality strategy and execution across the full product lifecycle

* Lead design reviews and risk management activities, ensuring compliance and robustness from the outset

* Own and implement QMS requirements, embedding best practice across projects

* Oversee validation activities, root cause investigations, and quality performance

* Review and approve product, process and supplier documentation

* Partner directly with Project Leads, Product Development teams, and external suppliers to ensure quality alignment

* Influence decisions through strong technical and risk-based thinking, not just process governance

This is a role where you’ll add real value, not just tick boxes.

What we’re looking for

You’ll need to bring a strong blend of technical quality expertise and stakeholder influence.

* Background in Quality within product development (pharma, biotech, or medical devices)

* Strong working knowledge of GMP, ISO and/or medical device standards

* Experience leading or coordinating cross-functional quality activities or teams

* Confident driving design assurance, risk management, and project quality delivery

* Able to operate in a fast-moving project environment — prioritising, influencing and making decisions

* Degree-qualified in a relevant Life Sciences or Engineering discipline

Why this role?

* Work on high-visibility development projects where quality is business-critical

* Join a global organisation with strong technical capability and future investment

* Be able to shape outcomes, not just review them

* Immediate start, long-term contract stability

If you’re a quality professional who prefers being close to the product, close to decisions, and genuinely influencing outcomes, this will suit you well