Director of Quality Assurance

Berlin Berlin Germany

**Job Type**: Regular Full-time
Division: Precision for Medicine
Business Unit: Translational Sciences
Requisition Number: 5709

**Essential Duties & Responsibilities**
- Quality SME/Lead responsible maintaining effective Quality oversight and collaboration with project teams and suppliers.
- Ensures all aspects of Quality Management at ISO17025/ISO/15189/GCP/GCLP are conducted according to regulations, local and international regulatory requirements, and Precision for Medicine (PfM) expectations in a phase appropriate approach.
- Develops, implement, and maintain processes and procedures to support quality systems specific to the client interactions; Ensure processes and procedures are adhered to, consistent with health authority regulations, and value-added.
- Regularly collects, reports, and assesses quality KPI’s, metrics, process performance indicators and quality system signals for adequacy of performance to support periodic management reviews.
- Manages and supports the resolution of quality and technical problems identified within PfM in alignment with global standards and ensures that the all-critical and significant issues, which may have an adverse effect on the quality of the study conducted, and data generated to GxP/ISO, are escalated to management, and are resolved within stated timelines.
- Attends cross-functional team meetings and provide guidance to QA staff based on interpretation of current regulations to ensure best practices including risk-based management.
- Identifies quality improvements to PfM Quality Systems to maintain compliance and improve efficiency utilizing risk-based methodologies.
- Develops appropriate procedures and process and provides support for method transfer and validation activities to provide QA review and oversight.
- Manages, mentors, and develops direct reports within Quality group.
- Performs, Leads and Manages internal and external audits and regulatory inspections as needed.
- Provides support and contributes to other Quality Assurance activities as assigned.
- Provides inputs to budget, project schedules and QMS performance metrics
- Travel up to 30% including international

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Requirements:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Physical, Biological Sciences, or technical/scientific field
- 5 years of supervisory experience in a regulated environment
- 10-12 years’ experience working in a Quality driven life science, regulated environment
- Relevant Industry Certification

**Additional Requirements**:

- Keen knowledge of QMS, GLCP, ISO13485, ISO 17025 ISO15189, ISO 9001, ICH GCP, EMEA Guidelines
- Experience with Client and regulatory authority audits, Dakks
- Ability to lead and manage a quality team
- Experience in auditing and interacting with regulators, vendors and clients
- Proficiency in written and spoken English and German
- Must possess a valid driver’s license
- Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally

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