Director, Quality Assurance Compliance/auditor - Foster City, United States - Gilead Sciences

Gilead Sciences

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Foster City, United States

3 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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At Gilead, we're creating a healthier world for all people.

For more than 35 years, we've tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer - working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe.

We continue to fight against the world's biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference.

We empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead.

We're welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we're nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged.

We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams.

Every member of Gilead's team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations.

Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we're looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact.

Join Gilead and help create possible, together.

Job Description:

We are currently seeking an industry leader for a Director, Quality Assurance role, who will report to Executive Director, Supplier Quality Management and Audits, within the Global Quality Systems & Compliance department.

The role is highly visible, offer tremendous growth potential, and requires technical acumen, strong leadership, and collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders across QA, Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing Operations and Technical Development.

Essential Duties and Job Functions:

Leads a team of auditors based in North America
Demonstrated people leader experience (e.g. Workforce Planning, talent development, Budget adherence experience, promoting an inclusive and collaborative culture of trust and respect)
Primarily conduct global vendor audits for contract manufacturing of Gilead Contract Manufacturers
Support and/or conduct audits of providers of raw materials, product contact consumables, contract manufacturing or testing, software, warehouse / distribution in support of Gilead's clinical and commercial oral and parenteral dosage formulations and associated medical devices as assigned.
Manage all aspects of the audit lifecycle including scheduling, planning, issuing agendas, executing, issuing reports, evaluating responses, requesting clarification, issuing CA/PA, and closing.
Align, strategize and collaborate with the Global Supplier Quality function within Gilead
Enhance Global Third party Quality Oversight program and Qualification Process by leading initiatives to maintain compliance to global regulations and standards
Represent the Quality function in by developing the program and supporting the selection process for new/preferred suppliers
Act as liaison between global supplier quality and Gilead's production facilities
Ensure CA/PA to address compliance concerns identified during audits are commensurate with current biologics industry practices and benchmarks
Work directly with Gilead crossfunctional departments to gather key information and feedback prior to conducting vendor audits in order to ensure effectiveness.
SAP Supplier and Material Master Data experience is a must (e.g. Creation, Maintenance, Governance)
Participate in the development, implementation, and maintenance of procedures and templates to assist in the evaluation of and in improvement of the auditing process.
Identify compliance risks and escalate issues to appropriate levels of management for resolution.
Promote, awareness across the biologics commercial and clinical manufacturing platform(s) of current regulatory agency requirements and trends and develop and report on the trends identified to better focus the scope of audits.
Drive consistency with audit report observation writing, classification, status, and overall risk
Conduct due diligence assessments as part of global expansion as required
Identify and drive biologics audit program improvements and meet all required metrics and assigned goals
Travel (Domestic and International) may be required up to 40%

Regulatory Intelligence- Effectively communicate regulatory trends, insights and implications for Gilead to senior leadership with presentations and written reports- Respond to queries from internal stakeholders to support inspection readiness, external audits, regulatory submissions and staff training- Maintain online platforms (e.g., SharePoint) to provide intelligence related to Gilead's products, internal and external manufacturing and testing sites- Design and author GMP RI newsletters to arm PDM staff with timely and actionable knowledge by aggregating and distilling information across multiple GMP subscription services, industry consortiums