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The Third Party Quality Lead (TPQL) reports to the Head of Third Party Quality. The TPQL works with stakeholders and relevant oversight teams for third party quality risk management, issues management and general Good Clinical Practice guidance. The TPQL maintains Quality-to-Quality contacts with major vendors and site entities partnering with Clinical Development & Operations (CD&O). The TPQL is responsible for assessing and ensuring that clinical trial third party partners have the appropriate quality systems infrastructure, including a culture of quality and compliance to adhere to sponsor's policies and procedures with all applicable external regulatory requirements relating to GCP including those related to patient safety, data integrity, and protocol adherence as set out in the Master Services Agreement. The TPQL the vendor engagement framework, including processes, tools, roles and sourcing strategy.
Job Responsibility
Identify, evaluate and respond to GCP quality risks related to vendor and site engagement
Lead quality discussions with key vendors and sites and present quality point of view at relevant oversight meetings
Provide quality oversight reports to appropriate sponsor's management / functions
Communicate key quality information (e.g., inspection / audit learnings) across vendors and site entities and serve as quality expert for third parties
Validate, monitor and close out GCP-quality-related action plans
Evaluates quality performance at an enterprise level to inform continuous improvement of quality risk management
Informs site organization relationship owner of quality improvement considerations
Support QMS09 BPO in the development and implementation of process updates
Support Vendor Leads / Business Owners to ensure compliance with functional level vendor oversight requirements
Requirements
BS--7+ years or equivalent
MS/MBA – 6+ years or equivalent
Minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical experience with solid experience in clinical trial development
Robust knowledge in quality areas (i.e. audit, inspection, compliance, and inspection readiness fields)
Quality related experience including working knowledge in: Quality and compliance management, QC
Root Cause Analysis
Risk identification, controls, mitigations, and actions
Metrics development and utilization
Audit and Inspection conduct and CAPA response process
Ability to develop strategies using coordinated and transparent metrics to track and manage compliance
Ability to participate in cross-line global initiatives or root cause analysis for quality related process improvement