Advipro, The Complete GxPerience!

Meanwhile, I have been working at Advipro for one year. Before that, I have worked for four years as a PhD-student at VITO. I wanted to leave the academic world and applied for a job here because it is a smaller, but strongly growing company in the Kempen. During the second interview round I was introduced to Peter and Kristel, the founders of Advipro; I thought it was special to also get to meet the people behind the company.

Favorable commuting is important to me because I want to be able to combine my work with my family. We have the opportunity at Advipro to also work delocalized if this is allowed by the client. Everyone who is part of the compliance team at my current project works on average once per week from our hub.

"I wanted to start working at Advipro because it is specialized in pharma and cleanrooms, while many other consultancy firms often operate in a larger field of activity. Moreover, the company shows significant growth meaning I am able to grow along.

I get quality training sessions, and a strong group spirit can be felt. After two weeks of training, I started a project in the Netherlands where I am co-supporting a project team in the validation of a cleanroom at a pharmaceutical company."

"We co-guarantee the continuity and quality of the utilities and we document everything. It is a versatile job in which we do not only constantly follow up on certain matters across different projects in a planned manner, we also handle unforeseen deviations in operations. Our client also expects us to think along about potential problems and come up with solutions to these problems. I have been working at Advipro for 9 years. Before that, I have worked six years at the R&D-department of a company and 2 years for a pharmaceutical company. When I started working here, 20 people were employed by Advipro but in the meantime, we keep on growing. I appreciate the direct communication with the management, the transparency and flexibility and the no-nonsense approach.”

"The projects we develop are either “cost-driven” whereby we try to realize savings, “safety-driven” whereby we try to incorporate additional safety in the manufacturing process, or “quality-driven” whereby we increase the quality by means of ever-changing technologies and by applying “current good practices”. The most exciting projects are a combination of the three. The pharmaceutical sector is a great industry for realizing projects. It gives me satisfaction when products are produced after our intervention at or in the project “you” realized.

I have already been working at Advipro for 10 years. We are known by all large and smaller pharmaceutical companies in Flanders and beyond. We stand for the highest quality and also communicate this to our employees. I was already there when we integrated the term “A-team” in order to distinguish ourselves as Advipro-employees. The A-team stands for young, dynamic and driven employees who support and realize high-quality projects together."

Their specialization in the pharmaceutical industry was very appealing to me and especially the fact that they have a department for both Project Support and for Testing. A lot is also done to maintain a pleasant group spirit, which already showed from their Facebook-page. I think that is important because everybody is working at different projects with clients. I was only just hired and I was already invited to a sailing event.

After my first weeks of training at Advipro, I was deployed at a project as Supplier Qualification Engineer for an academic spin-off, specialized in immunotherapy. I will monitor there whether suppliers are able to deliver correctly and what will happen with the product and with the patient should this not be the case. I am substituting someone here who gave me onboard training in the company. I work here together with five other Advipro-engineers, so I am certainly not facing my task alone. We work together in an open structure: you can ask everything to everybody, your colleagues and the management support you wherever necessary.