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Job Description
HOW MIGHT YOU DEFY IMAGINATION?
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission—to serve patients—drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together—researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
DIRECTOR, CLINICAL QUALITY THERAPEUTIC AREA LEAD
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What you will do
Job Description
Let’s do this! Let’s change the world! In this vital role you will report to the Associate Vice President, Clinical & Research Quality (CRQ) and be responsible for a team of 5-10 colleagues. The Director, Clinical Quality Therapeutic Area Lead provides proactive end to end quality oversight strategies for the development and implementation of a customized risk-based quality assurance strategy for the clinical development program.
Director, Clinical Quality Therapeutic Area Lead will manage end to end Quality Oversight within one of three Therapeutic Areas (TAs): Oncology/Biosimilars, Immunology & Rare Diseases, and General Medicine. The TA Lead is responsible for implementing a risk-based quality strategy that advances quality by design principles for the full clinical trial lifecycle (protocol development, database lock, and regulatory submissions/ approvals).
You will be a vital role who develops deep knowledge of the TA’s clinical trials and provides oversight and quality management of critical data and processes for global and local study teams and all clinical trial sites who participate in Amgen sponsored trials.
Responsibilities
- Review clinical trial protocols ensuring simplification, application of lessons learned, and identification of critical data and processes
- Provide quality oversight for the Risk Assessment Categorization Tool (RACT) for each trial to ensure the proper identification, prioritization, and mitigation of risks to critical data and processes and patient safety, welfare and rights
- Provide oversight for the development and implementation of Quality Plans
- Establish Regional expertise to ensure quality and compliance to local regulations
- Support TA-specific data integrity, including technologies for data collection and measurement (e.g., biomarker usage and imaging methods)
- Develop TA-specific Quality Assurance plans that are risk based and efficient. This includes TA specific audit plans, and the execution of audits (investigator site audits, affiliate audits, and study level audits)
- Support Clinical Trial Teams for all quality management activities, including Deviations/CAPAs, Inspection Readiness activities, and Inspection Management, and Serious Breaches/ Privacy Issues
- Actively seek and implement innovative and proactive quality oversight methodologies (e.g., risk-methods using AI and Natural Language Processing, and other advanced data analytics methods)
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What we expect of you
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The individual we seek has technological literacy and leadership skills, and has these qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
Doctorate degree and 4 years of Quality Management, Quality Assurance, or other relevant experience
Or
Master’s degree and 8 years of Quality Management, Quality Assurance, or other relevant experience
Or
Bachelor’s degree and 10 years of Quality Management, Quality Assurance, or other relevant experience
In addition to meeting at least one of the above requirements, you must have a minimum of 4 years of managerial experience directly managing people and/or leadership experience leading teams, projects, programs, or directing the allocation of resources. Your managerial experience may run concurrently with the required technical experience referenced above.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 5 years of managerial experience directly leading people in a multi-tiered organization and an ability to build a high performing team.
- 5 years or more experience in Quality Management, Quality Assurance, or other relevant areas of the pharmaceutical/biotech industry where risk-based quality and quality by design are a core responsibility.
- Oversight and implementation of Quality Management Systems and experience managing quality in electronic QMS such as Veeva or Track wise. (including oversight of CAPAs, deviations, etc.)
- Thorough understanding and deep knowledge of Clinical Development activities / Clinical Trials and Global Regulations.
- Knowledge of the Regulatory Submission and Inspection Management procedures.
- Quality Oversight of Clinical Trials, including clinical trial protocol development, execution, and submissions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including strong business writing abilities and active listening.
- Ability to transform business and stakeholder feedback into clear, efficient processes using a straightforward language and format.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and decision-making abilities.
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What you can expect of us
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan comprising health and welfare plans for staff and eligible dependents, financial plans with opportunities to save towards retirement or other goals, work/life balance, and career development opportunities including:
- Comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts.
- A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
- Stock-based long-term incentives
- Award-winning time-off plans and bi-annual company-wide shutdowns
- Flexible work models, including remote work arrangements, where possible
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Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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Salary Range
187,972.00 USD - 214,012.00 USD
