Senior Specialist, Clinical Quality Assurance - Remote

Quality Assurance Clinical Quality Auditor

Our Research & Development Division Quality Assurance (QA) is an independent organization that provides quality focus at each critical stage of the product development life cycle, including post approval marketing, to ensure high-quality, safe, and effective products, contributing to the company mission of improving and saving lives around the world. Our Research & Development Division QA Clinical Quality (CQ) provides independent assurance that our Company ensures the safety, rights, and well-being of participants, while complying with applicable global regulatory requirements through sound processes, procedures, and strategies for ensuring data integrity in our clinical trials.

Primary responsibilities include :

• Leading their own tasks and responsibilities within a team, prioritizing time and effort towards important deliverables and producing high-quality work.
• Contributing to the overall goals of the team by excelling at their individual role and taking initiative to improve their own skills.
• Influencing, partnering, and collaborating with other colleagues within and outside their team.
• Preparing, conducting QA audits, generating audit reports, communicating results to the relevant QA management and external relevant stakeholders (e.g. Clinical Operations), and interacting with various teams to ensure corrective and preventative actions are taken to bring QA observations to closure as applicable.
• Analyzing and leveraging critical to quality factors to identify potential risks to prepare and perform risk-based audits.
• Activities may include GCP audits of investigator sites, suppliers, third party collaborations, and due diligence activities.
• In alignment with risk assessments, supporting the QAL in the identification of audit substrate for scheduling, as appropriate.
• Ensuring appropriate and timely escalation of quality issues, including potential misconduct or issues of significant deviation with projects / products, to the QAL and TA Head.
• Interfacing and providing day-to-day support to applicable QA functional line to ensure appropriate quality oversight of assigned studies.
• Assessing compliance of clinical investigator sites, vendors, study activities, clinical study reports, and submission documents, and Country Offices (COs) processes against ICH (International Conference of Harmonization), applicable government agency regulations / guidelines, as well as our company's policies, procedures, and industry standards.
• The QAS should have a comprehensive working knowledge of Quality Assurance, regulations, and auditing. Develops and delivers awareness sessions with minimal supervision on various GCP and PV topics internally and externally.
• Promotes standardization of auditing approach within QA.
• Routinely suggests new audit techniques / aids in areas of technical expertise.
• Ensures the work climate / culture within QA exemplifies our company's leadership behaviors.

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U.S. Hybrid Work Model :

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, Monday - Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as "remote".

Salary Range :

$104,200.00 - $163,900.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs. The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable