Senior Specialist, Clinical Quality Assurance - Remote

Quality Assurance 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) provide 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 :

• Leads their own specific tasks and responsibilities within a team, prioritizing time and effort towards important deliverables and producing high-quality work
• Contributes to the overall goals of the team by excelling at their individual role and taking initiative to improve their own skills
• Influences, partners and collaborates with other colleagues within and outside their team
• Prepares, conducts QA audits, generates audit reports, communicates results to the relevant QA management and external relevant stakeholders (e.g. Clinical Operations), and interacts with various teams to ensure corrective and preventative actions are taken to bring QA observations to closure as applicable.
• Be able to analyze and leverage 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, supports the QAL in the identification of audit substrate for scheduling, as appropriate.
• Ensures appropriate and timely escalation of quality issues, including potential misconduct or issues of significant deviation with projects / products, to the QAL and TA Head.
• Interfaces and provides day-to-day support to applicable QA functional line to ensure appropriate quality oversight of assigned studies.
• Assesses 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

Responsibilities relative to the Auditor Resourcer include :

Education

Requirements :

Enterprise Leadership Skills

Required Skills : Accountability, Adaptability, Audits Compliance, Business Processes, Clinical Documentation, Clinical Quality Management, Clinical Systems Implementation, Clinical Trials, Continual Improvement Process, Data Analysis, Data Quality Control, Detail-Oriented, Deviation Management, Documentations, Employee Training Programs, GMP Auditing, Interpersonal Relationships, Manufacturing Processes, Manufacturing Quality Control, Process Improvements, Product Development, Project Management, Quality Assurance (QA), Quality Assurance Systems

Preferred Skills :

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As an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer, we provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing together, talented, and committed people with diverse experiences, perspectives, skills and backgrounds. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when people with diverse ideas, broad experiences, backgrounds, and skills come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively.

The salary range for this role is $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.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https : / / jobs.merck.com / us / en / compensation-and-benefits.

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