Christoph Schuhr Ph.D.

Global Senior Director QA

Grenzach-Wyhlen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

passionate, collaborative and result-driven leader with strong QA experience in local and global functions of Pharma and CMO business, acting as or supervision of Qualified/Responsible Persons (FvP) track record of successful achievement of goals and improvements

Experience

  • Bachem (Full-time · 9 yrs 5 mos)
    • Global Senior Director Quality System
      Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs

    • Vice President Local Quality Assurance & Regulatory Affairs
      Apr 2018 - Jun 2024 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Accountability for entire Quality System and GMP Compliance of manufacturing site as QA site head Leading a growing team of >100 quality & compliance experts Member of site management team, legal role as Responsible Person (for Import, Wholesale, Foreign Trade) close interactions with customers and authorities

    • Director Local Quality Assurance
      Feb 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Accountability for QA department "Quality Systems and Validation", ~ 25 employees Successful introduction of an electronic Quality Management System at the site Auditing

  • Roche (Full-time · 7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Global Project Lead "Compliance & Enabling"
      Apr 2014 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Lead of different global Quality & Compliance projects

    • Head of Department "Quality Management & Projects"
      Jul 2009 - Mar 2014 · 4 yrs 9 mos

      Accountability for GMP Quality System and Project Portfolio of site ~10 employees Legal roles as Head of Production, Responsible Person for Narcotics & Psychotropics international assignment to support issue management at US site Auditing

  • Roche Diagnostics GmbH (Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland)
    • Head of "Reference Standards Center"
      May 2007 - Jun 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      End-to-end accountability for supply of analytical Reference Standards at global Roche Pharma and beyond (procurement, synthesis, purification, characterisation and certification, filling, storage, distribution) Heading >30 employees in matrix organisation

    • Head of Quality Control Laboratory
      Jun 2003 - Jun 2009 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      Analytical method development and validation, drug substance analytics

  • Head of Laboratory, Pharma Research at Bayer
    Apr 2001 - Jun 2003 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Isolation of novel, bioactive molecules, Structure elucidation of natural products