Associate Director, Clinical Quality Assurance Auditor

🕒 March 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $195.3k - $227.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔧 QA Engineer (Quality Assurance)

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Cytokinetics

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

🧬 Biotechnology

💊 Pharmaceuticals

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

💰 $450M Post-IPO Debt on 2022-06

Biotechnology • Pharmaceuticals • Healthcare Insurance

Cytokinetics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of potential medicines aimed at improving muscle function. The company is particularly active in developing treatments for cardiovascular and neuromuscular diseases, such as heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and other conditions of impaired muscle function. Cytokinetics has a robust pipeline of small molecule muscle activators and inhibitors and is committed to improving patients' lives through its scientific research and development efforts. The company's mission revolves around empowering muscle and thereby empowering lives, with patients being the central focus of its activities. Based in South San Francisco, Cytokinetics has been pioneering the field of muscle biology for over 25 years.

📋 Description

• Serve as the CQA audit program process owner and accountable for the day-to-day activities of the audit program, including audit coordinating, report reviews, response review, and CAPA follow up, and audit closures • Serve as the principal lead auditor for GCP, GVP, and GLP audits, including investigator sites, CROs, vendors, laboratories, and internal functional areas. • Develop, implement, and maintain a risk-based global clinical audit program, ensuring comprehensive coverage of company-sponsored trials and critical vendors • Analyze and manage audit program metrics, trends to identify key compliance risks and improvement opportunities; communicate findings to senior management • Lead inspection readiness activities for global health authority inspections, including mock inspections, SME training and preparation, and documentation review • Assist with the design and the creation/management/maintenance of quality plans and metrics • Oversee and coordinate with contract auditors on internal and external quality audits of clinical vendors and investigator sites • Assist with quality review of key clinical documents (e.g. clinical protocol, ICFs, CSRs, case report form) and clinical SOPs • Design and conduct GCP Training for functional departments, act as the primary trainer for the auditor program • Support maintenance and continuous improvement of the clinical quality management system (QMS), including SOPs, training, and compliance metrics • Provide mentoring and oversight to QA staff and foster a culture of quality and accountability across clinical teams • Represent CQA in assigned projects and study/program team meetings to address quality issues that may arise, including identification and resolution and be an advocate for quality and regulatory compliance.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in life sciences • 10+ years of progressive global quality/regulatory compliance background in pharma/biotech or medical device industries, with a hands-on role in quality audits and quality system preferred • Current and strong working knowledge of United States Code of Federal Regulations and European regulations and guidance, including ICH-GCP Guidance requirements governing clinical research conduct and pharmacovigilance operations • Experience with electronic Quality Management Systems and Trial Master File • Auditor certification is preferred • Up to 60% travel may be required • Experience in managing or supporting clinical trial or Drug Safety-related regulatory inspections a plus • Ability to lead cross-functional teams, independently prioritize work and manage multiple priorities while maintaining quality and GCP compliance objectives • Ability to use expertise and skills to contribute and achieve Cytokinetics’ company objectives and principles in creative and effective ways.