About Catherine
Senior consultant specialising in business transformation of quality assurance, health and safety, and sustainability systems within complex operational environments. Experienced in the design and continuous improvement of operational systems which support effective delivery of objectives whilst meeting regulatory and audit requirements across agricultural biotechnology, medical device and laboratory services organisations. Recognised for a trusted, collaborative, pragmatic approach to change, working with cross-functional teams to embed effective systems which work in practice.
English
Native or bilingual
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Optimal Cloud SolutionsCompany DirectorMay 2024 - Today (2 years and 1 month)
- Company Director supporting governance, compliance and business operations.
- Advised on quality, risk and operational processes where required.
- Overseeing administrative operations of the company.
- Tropic Biosciences.Head of ESG & QualityBIOTECHJune 2020 - January 2025 (4 years and 7 months)
- Led ESG strategy, developing and building on previous years to fully embed sustainability initiatives into everyday life and grow the function hiring the first Sustainability Manager for Tropic.
- Designed and implemented ISO-9001 aligned quality management system, achieving zero finding external audit in 2023. Designed, hired and developed the Quality Assurance Team over my tenure who now run the function.
- Authored and trained out policies, crisis management processes. Assessed organisational readiness for relevant QHSE and ESG projects and created project plans to achieve these.
- Developed and strengthened health & safety management systems including hiring H&S Manager to support safe, compliant operations.
- Designed and delivered organisation-wide training sessions on quality standards, health and safety, sustainability and ways of working.
- Selected and implemented QMS software Trackmedium eQMS to automate quality and health and safety processes leading the rollout and adoption across the organisation.
- Horizon Discovery,Transfer to Production ManagerBIOTECHAugust 2019 - March 2020 (7 months)
- Managed a group of research scientists working under ISO13485.
- Developed & implemented the Management of Change process for the group.
- Worked closely with Product & Project Managers to deliver customer projects on time & investigate customer complaints or queries.
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Education
- BSc BiologyThe Open University2018Biology degree gained whilst working in the industry to gain experience.
Certifications
- Managing SafelyIOSH2019