Associate Director, Clinical QA

Job Description Summary
LOCATION: London, UK or Dublin, Rep of Ireland
ROLE TYPE: Hybrid Working

The Associate Director, Clinical QA will provide Quality oversight for the end-to-end clinical process for the clinical trials under responsibility to ensure compliance with the Health Authorities requirements, the internal standards and a full adherence to patients' safety, rights and well-being.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

1. Proactively provide QA leadership to the business strategy for assigned programs/trials by ensuring considerable organization awareness (e.g. interrelationship of departments and business priorities).
2. Drive implementation of quality strategy within Global Clinical Team (GCT)/Clinical Trial Team (CTT) under responsibility.
3. Regularly monitor the implementation of the annual Quality Plan pertaining to the assigned programs/studies.
4. Ensure adequate oversight of proactive quality risk management process in the overseen areas including quality risk assessments and submission/inspection readiness activities, ensuring that Clinical Trial Processes (CTP) are in control.
5. Provide robust and clear quality oversight in the following areas of clinical development:
   
   1. Support/collaborate with key stakeholders (e.g., Country Development Quality (CDQ), Development Units (DUs), GCT and/or CTT members) to ensure that risks are detected and remediated.
   2. Support core governance for quality incident management for critical and major deviations pertinent to the programs being assigned and ensure timely escalation when required.
   3. Provide Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guidance to day-to-day questions arising from Clinical trials deliverables.
   4. Collaborate with Country Development QA and External Service Providers (ESP) QA to drive initiatives relevant to internal monitoring and outsourced activities Quality oversight.
   5. Support inspections preparation and facilitation in collaboration with other QA groups within Research & Development Quality (RDQ).
   6. Support audits and inspections follow-up activities including Corrective & Preventative Actions (CAPA) preparation.
6. Actively leverage audit/inspection outcomes/trends to sustain improvement in clinical trials conduct.
7. Active participation in continuous improvement initiatives (including Work streams) and ensure that areas identified as weaknesses are properly being addressed and executed for sustainability.
8. Be QA point of contact for the defined trials and attend the meetings to ensure quality is embedded in the decision-making processes.

Essential Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in life science or healthcare field required. Advanced degree or equivalent education/degree in life sciences/healthcare preferred (PhD/MD/PharmD/Masters).
2. 7 years of involvement in regulated activities (GCP/Pharmacovigilance (PV)), clinical development and/or QA positions.
3. Broad understanding of global expectations of Health Authorities in the area of Clinical Development and profound understanding of the science of product development.
4. Ability to work independently and in a global/matrix environment.
5. 3 or more years' experience in managing projects.
6. Strong skills in GCP, quality and/or clinical development.

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Skills Desired:
Agility, Auditing, Audit Management, Business Partnering, Continued Learning, Drug Development, Employee Performance Evaluations, Health Authorities, Influencing Skills, ISO 9001, Leadership, Organizational Savvy, People Management, QA (Quality Assurance), Quality Management, Quality Management Systems (QMS), Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Self-Awareness, Stakeholder Management, Technological Expertise, Vendor Management