Senior Specialist, QA Clinical Auditor

Internationalinsuranceprofessionals; São Paulo; Hybrid; BRL 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Specialist, QA Clinical Auditor to be located in Sao Paulo or Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, with travel as needed. The role focuses on planning, conducting, and reporting GCP QA audits to ensure regulatory compliance and quality across clinical activities.

Ideal candidates will have 5+ years in auditing or clinical trial operations, strong knowledge of GCP and regulatory guidelines, and the ability to work across diverse teams in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related work experience in auditing, clinical trial operations, or a related space.
• Knowledge of the drug development process, applicable regulations, and GCP.
• Experience with regulatory guidelines (FDA, EMA, ICH).

Responsibilities

• Leads planning, conducts, and reports GCP QA routine audits and supports non-routine audits.
• Ensures audit plans, tools and procedures are applied consistently.
• Analyzes data to identify patterns and trends; delivers CAPAs.
• Presents findings clearly in reports and supports regulatory inspections.
• Participates in training material development when requested.

Skills

Auditing

GCP knowledge

Regulatory knowledge

Data analytics

Clinical trial operations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Audit tools

Job description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.

Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Quality

Job Sub Function

Quality Assurance

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Specialist, QA Clinical Auditor to be located in Sao Paulo or Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil (with ability to comply with J&J Flex way of working).

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

In R&D Quality, we continue to invest in our talent, diversity, and expertise, to make quality a business differentiator and competitive advantage - allowing our business partners to better deliver what really matters to customers and patients. QA delivers innovative risk-based audit approaches that provide relevant insights to proactively secure compliance and drive sustainability and reliability across Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine.

Key responsibilities

• Independently leads the planning, conduct and reporting of GCP QA routine audits and supports non-routine GCP audits including Clinical Investigator Site audits, Trial/Program audits, External Service Provider audits, Process/System audits, Local Operating Country audits, to assure adherence to corporate policies, internal standards/requirements and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. Non-routine audits include Due Diligence, for cause audits, cross-functional, complex/sensitive system/service provider audits as defined by the scope.
• Ensures the relevant standard procedures, audit tools, and audit plans are fully understood and applied in audit activities.
• Analyzes, interprets data and identifies patterns and trends in data sets.
• Ensures timely and appropriate review & delivery of CAPAs and actions arising from audits.
• Presents information logically and concisely, both verbally and in writing, including writing reports with clarity
• Provides GCP Audit strategy support, especially on QA risk-based auditing approach (Audit plans)
• Supports regulatory inspections in various supporting roles.
• Completes assigned training requirements in a timely manner to ensure inspection readiness at all times.
• May assist in the preparation of training material if requested.
• Participates in projects or serves on teams, as assigned by supervisor.
• Meets priorities, checkpoints, and timelines for all aspects of work and projects to achieve adequate progress.

Education

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required.

Experience and Skills

Required

• A minimum of 5 years of related work experience in auditing, clinical trial operations, or a related space
• Knowledge of the drug development process, applicable regulations, R&D practices, and scientific and quality terminology.
• Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCP) and applicable regulations/guidelines (e.g. FDA regulations, EU CTR, ICH E6 R3
• Understanding of fundamentals of clinical trial risk management.
• Broad knowledge of management of standard operating procedures, good documentation practices, and records management.
• Digital literacy & Analytics - Experience using standard applications/systems & data analytics tools.
• Ability to plan and prioritize work in an efficient manner, and to work well under time constraints.
• Flexibility to respond to changing business needs.

Preferred

• Familiarity with new and emerging technologies and analytics, and the ability to see opportunities where creative capabilities may be applied within QA audit processes
• Experience conducting Clinical Quality Assurance audits.
• Ability to interpret global regulatory standards.
• Inspection support experience (FDA, EMA and other inspectorates).
• Conflict resolution/management skills.
• Strong networking and relationship building skills.
• Experience balancing multiple projects simultaneously.

Other

• Must be able to speak and write in English. (Advanced/ Fluent)
• This position may require up to 30% of domestic and/or international travel.