Supply Operations Quality (SOQ) Market Lead
Pfizer
- Location
- Turkey - Istanbul
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
- H-1B history
- 9 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Aug 12, 2026
About this role
Use Your Power for Purpose At Pfizer, our purpose is simple—Breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Every day, Pfizer's unwavering commitment to quality ensures the delivery of safe, effective, and compliant medicines to patients worldwide. Our science- and risk-based quality culture combines innovation, flexibility, and operational excellence while always putting patients first. As the Supply Operations Quality (SOQ) Market Lead for Turkey, you will play a critical role in maintaining and strengthening Pfizer's Product Quality System within the local market. You will provide leadership and oversight of market quality operations, ensuring compliance with Pfizer standards, GDP/GMP regulations, local health authority requirements, and global quality expectations while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and quality excellence. What You Will Achieve In this role, you will: Lead the Turkey SOQ organization and provide strategic direction for local quality and compliance operations. Manage people, technology, and financial resources, including influencing resources beyond direct reporting relationships. Actively share knowledge across functions and contribute to knowledge management and organizational learning initiatives. Champion innovation by identifying opportunities to improve quality systems, operational effectiveness, and business processes. Develop solutions to highly complex quality, compliance, and operational challenges. Translate divisional and regional quality strategies into local business priorities and execution plans. Assess talent needs, develop organizational capabilities, and build a strong and diverse succession pipeline. Partner with local and regional leadership to ensure effective execution of quality objectives and market support activities. Ensure compliance with Pfizer Global Quality Standards, GDP/GMP requirements, local Turkish regulations, and applicable health authority expectations. Lead quality oversight of market operations including complaints, deviations, CAPAs, change controls, market actions, returns, and local product disposition activities. Collaborate with Data Analysis, Trending, Systems & Processes, and cross-functional business teams to continuously improve operational performance. Monitor quality metrics, identify risks and trends, and implement appropriate mitigation plans. Notify regional leadership of significant product quality or compliance concerns and ensure timely escalation when required. Lead inspection readiness activities and support internal audits and regulatory inspections. Train, coach, and mentor team members to achieve organizational objectives and foster a strong quality culture. Promote One Pfizer collaboration and support business continuity, new product launches, and strategic initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Compliance & Regulatory Oversight Act as the primary quality representative for Pfizer Turkey. Ensure compliance with GDP, GMP, Pfizer Quality Standards, and local regulatory requirements. Coordinate quality and compliance activities across the country organization. Be point of contact for interactions with local health authorities regarding quality-related matters. Maintain inspection readiness and facilitate regulatory inspections and audits. Quality Systems Governance Ensure timely implementation and maintenance of applicable Global SOPs and quality processes. Lead quality management reviews and governance forums. Review trends, quality metrics, KPIs, risks, and continuous improvement opportunities. Oversee training compliance and quality system effectiveness. Manage local commitments resulting from inspections, audits, deviations, and CAPAs. Product Quality Operations Lead investigation and resolution of market quality issues. Oversee deviation management, root cause investigations, and CAPA implementation. Ensure compliant management of product complaints through global quality systems. Support local disposition decisions and