Job Description

Pharo Pharma is looking for a Microbiology Section Head to join our team in Egypt.

🔹 Microbiology Laboratory Leadership & Contamination Control:

· Lead all microbiology laboratory operations, ensuring microbiological control of sterile and non-sterile products, environmental monitoring programs, contamination control strategies, and timely execution of microbiological testing (sterility, endotoxin, bioburden, microbial identification, and EM).

· Oversee contamination investigations, root cause analysis, CAPAs, and maintenance of validated methods, equipment, media, and reagents.

🔹 Quality Systems, Compliance & Inspection Readiness:

· Ensure compliance with cGMP, GLP, FDA, EMA, MHRA, WHO requirements, SOPs, and internal quality standards.

· Own laboratory investigations (OOS, OOT, atypical results), approve microbiological data and reports, maintain audit readiness, and act as the microbiology SME during internal, customer, and regulatory inspections.

🔹 Technical Expertise & Cross-Functional Support:

· Provide expert guidance on sterilization, aseptic processing, microbiological controls, environmental monitoring, and method validation/verification.

· Support new product introductions, technology transfers, risk assessments, and collaborate with Production, QA, Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, and R&D to resolve microbiological issues and ensure product quality.

🔹 Team Leadership, Decision-Making & Continuous Improvement:

· Lead, mentor, and develop microbiology staff through training, competency assessment, workload management, and succession planning.

· Own key laboratory decisions including test result approvals, investigations, environmental monitoring reviews, CAPAs, equipment and method qualification, while driving continuous improvement in laboratory efficiency, compliance, and operational performance.

🔹 Requirements:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology or Pharmacy is mandatory; a Master’s degree is highly preferred.

• 10+ years of progressive experience within the pharmaceutical Quality Control environment.

• At least 3-5 years of experience in a supervisory or leadership role is required.