Liz Docherty
Broughton,Flintshire
Summary
Highly organised and detail-driven, Certified Veeva Vault Quality Management System Associate and Document Controller with extensive experience in regulated human and veterinary pharmaceutical environments and strong transferable skills for construction, engineering, and infrastructure projects. Skilled in managing controlled quality documentation, ensuring GxP compliance, maintaining accurate records, and coordinating with cross-functional and cross-border teams to fulfil strict project deadlines. Highly organised and known for proactive communication, strong IT literacy and a structured approach to data and document governance. Fluent in French with intermediate German.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Certified Veeva Vault QMS Associate & Document Controller
Dechra Ltd
Northwich, Cheshire
03.2025 - Current
- Managing electronic, controlled documents within Veeva Vault QMS, ensuring accuracy, GxP compliance, and timely updates of up-versioning.
- Led 2 consecutive documentation migrations from 2 offshore sites, conducting the verification of metadata populated in Excel loader sheets, ensuring 100% accuracy for error-free migrations to the Veeva system in time for scheduled go-lives. Achieved by conducting daily 30 minute standup meetings for 2 months per site, to discuss resolution of pain points and to ensure that timelines and milestones were achieved as timely as possible.
- Prepared initial project plans and milestone reports for each stage of the migrations.
- Used Adobe Sign and DocuSign to send out training forms for line manager approval for key personnel being onboarded.
- Veeva QMS Trainer for Dechra Divisional Manufacture & Supply, giving monthly 2 hour training sessions for new users in the operation of Veeva.
- Supporting quality processes and maintaining audit & inspection-ready GxP documentation.
- Coordinating with internal and external teams to ensure documentation is complete, compliant and accessible.
SAP Master Data Specialist
Ipsen Biopharm Ltd
Wrexham
05.2015 - 06.2024
- Ensured accuracy and efficiency of master data operations, including validation and monitoring of customer, supplier, and material master data.
- Maintained documentation compliance with business rules, ensuring clarity on how information was used and by whom.
- Validated information sources to ensure legitimacy and suitability for downstream processes.
- Led the master data creation for two new production facilities.
- Managed engineering asset registration, equipment BOMs, material codification, and data cleansing.
- Fulfilled documentation and BOM maintenance requests across Engineering, Manufacturing, Production Planning, Packaging, Warehouse, and Despatch.
- Supported the user community by collecting, triaging, and resolving data issues.
- Prioritised issues and maintained communication with stakeholders and remediation teams.
- Developed and enforced standard business data definitions and engineering naming conventions through the maintenance of SOPs.
- Created training materials and documented solutions for key users.
- Supported data lifecycle management, ensuring quality and compliance across creation, modification, sharing, retention, and backup.
Multilingual SAP Service Desk Analyst
Hewlett Packard/Bristol-Myers Squibb
12.2009 - 01.2013
- Supported SAP functionality, access issues, vendor blocks, invoice problems, and how-to queries.
- Providing multilingual IT support across the EMEA.
- General desktop support, including Active Directory, Outlook, printers, and laptops.
Personal Assistant to the Director of Product Development
Corus plc
01.2001 - 06.2001
- Managed diary, meetings, PowerPoint presentations, appointments, and international travel for senior leadership and engineering teams.
Education
Lean Six Sigma -
Ipsen Biopharm Ltd
Wrexham, WRX01-2022
SAP Certification - Materials Management, Sales & Order Fulfilment
Privately taught by a SAP Consultant
Remote01-2014
LLB (Hons) - Law
University of Wales
AberystwythBA (Hons) - French Language & Literature
University of Southampton
SouthamptonSkills
- Quality Management Systems (Veeva Vault QMS)
- Document control
- Version management
- Document lifecycle workflows
- Veeva Vault access control and permissions management
- Inspection and audit-readiness
- Detail-orientated
- Engineering documentation, BOMs, Asset registration
- Gantt charts and project management
- Cloud platforms
- Stakeholder and subcontractor coordination
- Data validation
- Document management
- System update regression testing
- Problem resolution
- PPI Process Performance Improvement
- Root cause analysis, 5 Whys and Fishbone
- Microsoft Office
- MS Teams
- Sharepoint
- Dropbox
- Adobe Sign
- DocuSign
- SAP ERP, Enterprise Resouce Planning in Materials Management
Languages
French
Proficient
C2
German
Intermediate
B1
Interests
Cycling, swimming, gym and fitness
Family days out, cinema, socialising with friends
Former self-employed importer/retailer of handmade Indian silver jewellery
Territorial Army (3 years), including Southampton University OTC
Timeline
Certified Veeva Vault QMS Associate & Document Controller
Dechra Ltd
03.2025 - Current
SAP Master Data Specialist
Ipsen Biopharm Ltd
05.2015 - 06.2024
Multilingual SAP Service Desk Analyst
Hewlett Packard/Bristol-Myers Squibb
12.2009 - 01.2013
Personal Assistant to the Director of Product Development
Corus plc
01.2001 - 06.2001
Lean Six Sigma -
Ipsen Biopharm Ltd
SAP Certification - Materials Management, Sales & Order Fulfilment
Privately taught by a SAP Consultant
LLB (Hons) - Law
University of Wales
BA (Hons) - French Language & Literature
University of Southampton