Quality and Project Platforms Lead

Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over-The-Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. B Corp certified in multiple markets, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com. About You You will lead a team of 5 to 10 experts and platform owners covering three connected areas: Digital Quality, meaning GxP processes, computer system validation, and the Digital Control Framework. Testing and quality engineering, including test strategy, test management and automation on Xray and Tricentis Tosca. The Atlassian platform, where Jira and Confluence on Atlassian Cloud carry project delivery, documentation and compliance evidence for Opella Digital. The role is both platform owner and people manager. There is no intermediate management layer, so you lead senior specialists directly and stay close enough to the work to challenge a validation rationale, review a test automation approach, or settle a Jira workflow design. We are looking for someone with 12 to 15 years of experience who owns the outcome rather than the task, simplifies processes that have grown complicated, and works comfortably across Digital, Quality and the business functions. What you will do Lead the team Line manage 5 to 10 experts and platform owners, including internal staff and partner resources. Set direction and priorities across three areas at once. Give each platform owner clear accountability, decision rights and a roadmap they own, then hold them to it. Run objective setting, performance and development conversations, coaching, and skills, backup and succession planning. Shape resourcing, capacity and the balance between insourced and partner-delivered work. Own the budget and vendor relationships for the platforms in scope. Build one team culture across quality, testing and platform engineering rather than three separate groups. Digital Quality, policy and validation governance You are the global owner for GxP-relevant Digital Quality policies, standards, SOPs and work instructions, and for making them usable in practice. You own the Digital Control Framework: control design, control ownership, testing of control effectiveness, evidence retention and remediation tracking.