Job Summary: We are seeking a Chemistry professional to manage the quality of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), ensuring regulatory compliance and continuous improvement within a laboratory setting. Key Highlights: 1. Experience with GMP standards and quality management systems. 2. Quality management in API production and laboratory analysis. 3. Opportunity to work for a leading company in materials technology. **About Umicore** Driving the cars of the future. Reducing harmful emissions. Imparting unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. We are the world’s leading circular materials technology company, fulfilling our mission to create materials for a better life. **About the Business** Chemistry that improves lives. Umicore is an expert in metal-based catalysis for applications that enhance our quality of life. Automotive emissions treatment technologies, active pharmaceutical ingredients for cancer treatments, fine chemical production, and advanced electronics—all made possible by our expertise in organometallic technology. To bring the magic of metal-based chemistry and catalysis to new customers and applications, we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways of doing things, discover new solutions, and develop new ideas. And that’s where you come in. **Your Responsibilities** * Support Quality Assurance during inspections and quality audits (GMP) related to the API manufacturing plant, conducted by customers or national/international regulatory bodies. * Maintain up-to-date internal procedures and analytical methodologies. * Promote safe execution of all analyses. * Support the Procurement Department on required technical matters. * Report monthly performance indicators for the department. * Coordinate product testing campaigns according to specifications and delivery deadlines agreed with customers. * Implement necessary CAPAs arising from audits and inspections. * Ensure compliance with the current stability program. * Ensure compliance with water treatment plant monitoring at the API facility. * Coordinate testing activities with Microbiology. * Actively participate in the generation, review, and approval of documentation related to quality systems. * Actively participate in internal and external training programs for your department, identifying specific needs to support continuous improvement. * Manage calibration—alongside Maintenance and Quality Assurance—of Quality Control instruments and equipment. * Approve or reject raw materials, packaging materials, and finished products manufactured at the API plant. * Ensure investigations are conducted for deviations or out-of-specification (OOS) results detected at the API manufacturing plant. * Collaborate in internal audits and supplier audits related to APIs. * Manage Quality Control laboratory resources to meet Production and Quality Assurance requirements. * Collaborate in responding to customer complaints. ü Participate in validation teams for qualification of equipment, utilities, facilities, processes, analytical methodologies, and general procedures. * Stay updated on analytical methodologies described in pharmacopoeias. * Issue Certificates of Analysis for tested products, raw materials, and packaging materials. **Who We Are Looking For** * Experience with GMP standards. * Education: University degree in Chemistry (e.g., Chemist, Pharmacist, Biochemist, or equivalent). * Knowledge of GMP quality systems. * Languages: Advanced English. * Proficiency in operating laboratory equipment. **What We Offer** * On-site cafeteria at no cost. * Transportation service with pre-established stops. * Health insurance: OSDE 210. * Annual bonus