Product Quality Associate Director

Embedded Shishya; Deutschland; Hybrid; EUR 125.000 - 169.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Retirement plan

Medical coverage

Life insurance

Flexible spending

Stock incentives

Flexible work

Zusammenfassung

Amgen is seeking a Product Quality Associate Director to lead a Product Quality Team across late-stage and commercial biologics. The role requires deep GMP and regulatory expertise, with responsibility for quality deliverables, risk assessments, and strategy alignment with regulatory submissions.

You will partner with Regulatory, QA, and Manufacturing to ensure product health and compliance. This position offers a collaborative culture, cross-functional exposure, and opportunity to influence

Qualifikationen

• Doctorate or Master’s or Bachelor’s with extensive Quality/Operations/Manufacturing experience.

Aufgaben

• Define deliverables and timelines across the Product Delivery Team.
• Coordinate discussion and lead decision making for strategies within the Product Quality Team.
• Lead cross-functional activities across the Product Quality Team and SMEs.
• Provide leadership for late-phase and commercial programs including product reviews and stability programs.
• Author and review GMP/regulatory documents and PQ-owned regulatory filing sections.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

cGMP knowledge

Data management

Regulatory knowledge

Quality leadership

Ausbildung

Doctorate degree

Master's degree

Bachelor's degree

Associate degree

High school diploma

Tools

GMP systems

Jobbeschreibung

Career Category

QualityJob Description

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients

At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do.

Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. Amgen is advancing a broad and deep pipeline of medicines to treat cancer, heart disease, inflammatory conditions, rare diseases, and obesity and obesity-related conditions. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives.

Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career.

Product Quality Associate Director

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. Amgen’s corporate Product Quality team is seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and team-oriented leader for the position of Product Quality Associate Director. As Product Quality Associate Director, you will provide technical expertise and leadership within a Product Quality Team. You will engage with Product Quality, International Distribution Quality, Quality Control, Regulatory, Process Development, Quality Assurance and other departments on a variety of activities. Such activities include product filings, program improvements, and investigations associated with product manufacturing, in-process controls, analytical methods, specifications, stability, reference standards, importation testing, change control, regulatory submissions and inspections.

In this role you will serve as the accountable Product Quality Leader, representing Quality on the Product Delivery Team(s) for one or more of Amgen’s late-stage or commercial biologics products and provide subject matter expertise to the Product Quality Team(s) to develop, implement, and manage strategies to meet the Product Delivery Team goals. You will provide key input and strategic influence for Product Quality related activities including ownership, authoring and review of GMP and regulatory documents, execution of transactions in relevant GMP systems and product data management including comparability assessments, annual product reviews, and product quality risk assessments. Your contributions will significantly improve initiatives intended to ensure the overall product health.

Primary Responsibilities include the following:

• Ensures Product Quality deliverables are appropriately defined within timelines across the Product Delivery Team. Deliverables are clear with priorities set based on program guidance.
• Coordinates discussion and leads decision making for strategies and activities supported within the Product Quality Team (Quality Assurance, Stability, Process Development, and other functions as needed) for programs they support.
• Accomplishes results by leading activities across the product quality team and with cross-functional SMEs for programs they support.
• Provide effective, cross-functional Quality leadership, and influence and support program deliverables for late phase and commercial programs, including actions required for the annual product reviews, specifications, comparability, and stability programs; site and method transfers; product quality impact assessments; and author PQ-owned regulatory filing sections and RTQs
• Provide subject matter expertise and strategic influence for science and risk-based evaluation of complex process and product quality data, including ability to develop patient-oriented strategies that account for business needs and/or provide novel solutions to complex issues

Amgen offers the opportunity to be at the interface between research, global development and manufacturing to ensure that our molecules become medicines. Many of the technologies we’re employing are not only new to Amgen but are new to the industry as a whole. Help us to pave new roads for helping patients.

What we expect of you

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The dynamic professional we seek is an individual with these qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree and 3 years of Quality, Operations, Scientific, or Manufacturing experience OR
• Master’s degree and 5 years of Quality, Operations, Scientific, or Manufacturing experience OR
• Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of Quality, Operations, Scientific, or Manufacturing experience OR
• Associate’s degree and 12 years of Quality, Operations, Scientific, or Manufacturing experience OR
• High school diploma / GED and 14 years of Quality, Operations, Scientific, or Manufacturing experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• B.S. or advanced degree in chemistry, biochemistry, biology, or a related pharmaceutical sciences field and experience with increasing responsibility in a quality, analytical development, process development, pharmaceutics, regulatory, or manufacturing environment
• 6+ years working in a regulated environment (either direct GMP or technical support) with experience working with biologic products
• 1+ year experience with authoring or review of market applications, IND, supplements or similar regulatory documentation

Functional Skills:

Must-Have Skills:

• Demonstrate proficiency in oral and written communication of complex information to Product Quality leadership, peers and regulatory agencies
• Demonstrate proficiency in knowledge of cGMP and international regulatory expectations
• Strong scientific data management and organization skills with attention to detail

Soft Skills:

• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively with global, virtual teams
• High degree of initiative and self-motivation
• Ability to manage multiple priorities successfully, react quickly to address urgent requests and meet challenging timelines
• Team-oriented, with a focus on achieving team goals

What you can expect of us

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also work to care for your professional and personal growth and well-being. From our competitive benefits to our collaborative culture, we’ll support your journey every step of the way.

The expected annual salary range for this role in the U.S. (excluding Puerto Rico) is posted. Actual salary will vary based on several factors including but not limited to, relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.

In addition to the base salary, Amgen offers a Total Rewards Plan, based on eligibility, comprising of 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 that may include:

• A 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
• Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Application deadline

Amgen does not have an application deadline for this position; we will continue accepting applications until we receive a sufficient number or select a candidate for the position.

Sponsorship

Sponsorship for this role is not guaranteed.

As an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for people around the world, Amgen fosters an inclusive environment of diverse, ethical, committed and highly accomplished people who respect each other and live the Amgen values to continue advancing science to serve patients. Together, we compete in the fight against serious disease.

Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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.

.Salary Range

145,241.20USD -196,502.80 USD