Specialist recruitment for Qualified Persons (QP) and Responsible Persons (RP) in the UK and Europe. Permanent, contract and interim. We help you set the role up right first, then find QPs and RPs who have certified or released your type of product.
Stirling Q&R recruits Qualified Persons (QP) and Responsible Persons (RP) for pharmaceutical, biotech and distribution companies in the UK and Europe. Both are legal roles named on a licence, so the right person has to be in place before you can operate.
Submit a vacancy or brief us on your role.
A Qualified Person certifies that each batch of a medicine has been made and tested correctly before it is released. The role is set out in Directive 2001/83/EC in the EU and in the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 in the UK. Read our full guide: What is a QP?
A Responsible Person oversees Good Distribution Practice for a wholesale distribution licence, following the EU GDP guidelines. Read our full guide: What is an RP?
The pool is small, and the right person must match your products and your licence. A QP with sterile manufacturing experience is not interchangeable with one from oral solids or clinical trial supply. We screen on the products, dosage forms and licences each candidate has actually worked with.
Permanent search, plus interim and contract QP and RP cover. Quality and Regulatory is all we do.
Submit your vacancy or brief us on your role. See also our Quality Assurance recruitment and UK recruitment.
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Yes. We recruit permanent, contract and interim QPs and RPs.
Yes, across the UK and Europe.
No. A QP certifies batches of medicine for release. An RP oversees Good Distribution Practice for a wholesale licence.
