Senior IT Quality Manager – Mergers & Acquisitions

Are you ready to take on a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and compliance of our Mergers & Acquisitions projects? As a Senior IT Quality Manager, you will be at the forefront of integrating systems and services that meet both internal and external regulatory standards. Your expertise will guide multidisciplinary teams to navigate complex regulatory landscapes and drive decision-making that mitigates risks. Join us in shaping the future of our IT landscape! Accountabilities Accountable for the application of Quality Management processes and services to assure that Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) projects, integrations, systems, solutions and services delivered by IT and 3rd party partners meet AZ internal and external regulatory requirements. Demonstrates leadership and serves as the subject matter expert on regulations and compliance across multidisciplinary teams to ensure compliance. Drives compliant decision-making and risk mitigation across cross-functional teams. Act upon risks and issues to raise compliance and quality levels within IT and the business. Supports the development and roll out of training, education and awareness campaigns for quality and compliance. Contributes to the continuous improvement of IT Policies, standards and procedures, as well as those pertaining to M&As. Collaborates with system/business process owner and M&A IT Deal Leads to complete or update the Regulatory Impact Determination (RID) as per the procedure to ensure an understanding of the Regulatory applicability (GxP, SOx, Data Privacy etc.), business, technical, software category, and regulatory risks for computerised systems, as applicable. Review of System lifecycle deliverables including RID, specifications, protocols, reports, and validation lifecycle deliverables, aligned with quality and compliance requirements. Review & approve M&A project deliverables including M&A Transfer Plan, Report and Data Migration activities. Participate in the review and approval of Exceptions, CAPA, Deviations, Changes, Incidents and Problems ensuring timely completion and update of System Lifecycle deliverables. Collaborates with the IT Project Manager to define the Quality Plan, processes, validation planning, and reporting processes. Reviews and approves the acquisition/divestiture/collaboration/repatriation/joint ventures/spin-offs plans, reports and procedures of data transfer from source systems from/to the purchaser/seller/partner/AZ target system, as appropriate. Review and approve the Workstream approaches and report(s), as applicable. Act as a QM point of contact for any potential internal and/or regulatory inspections. Driving accountability for the completeness, accuracy and currency of Quality related data through effective monitoring, tracking and reporting. Process authoring, ownership, lead, quality review and/or approval as appropriate. Provides guidance and support to M&A projects involving the development or introduction of new tools or systems to streamline M&A processes.

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