Director, Quality Operations Support

Curia Aalborg ApS; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 197,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous benefit options (eligible on

Paid training, vacation and holidays

Career advancement opportunities

Education reimbursement

401K program with matching

Job summary

Curia is seeking a US Regional Director, Quality Operations Support (Remote East Coast) to enable the BU Quality Head for API and Biologics, ensuring inspections readiness and oversight of global quality standards across sites.

This leadership role requires 15+ years in pharma with 8+ in Quality, strong regulatory knowledge, and proven mentoring skills; travel to sites as needed, and collaboration with customers to drive quality decisions.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in the pharmaceutical industry with at least 8 years in Quality, QA, or Quality Systems/Compliance
• At least 5 years of supervisory experience
• Experience in small molecule API manufacturing and/or Biologics drug substances
• Strong knowledge of pharma regulations for API and Biologics
• Demonstrated mentoring and coaching experience
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

• Key enabler for BU Quality Head; support sites in quality operations including inspections and audits
• Significant travel to sites as needed
• Participate in BU and site Quality Management Review and Inspection Readiness meetings
• Collaborate between sites and customers to finalize quality agreements
• Provide technical and quality support for global standards and procedures
• Act as an extension of BU Quality Head in leadership and quality meetings
• Develop and deliver site trainings, including investigations qualifying programs
• Provide technical support for electronic systems like DMS and LIMS
• Assist in responses to regulatory inspection findings
• Lead site quality reviews and gap assessments across the network

Skills

Quality leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Mentoring & coaching

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Chemistry/Microbiology/Chemical Engineering or related field

Job description

US Regional Director, Quality Operations Support – Remote (East Coast)

Build your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives.

The Director of Quality Operations Support is responsible to enable the Business Unit (BU) Quality Head for API (Small Molecule and Generic APIs) and Biologics, in delivering Curia’s strategic objectives. This position also enables the site Quality Heads in the effective implementation of global quality standards, global procedures, and other strategic initiatives. The Director of Quality Operations Support is responsible for providing onsite support to the sites for inspection readiness, during regulatory agency inspections or customer audits, managing day to day quality operations, and as a subject matter expert for complex investigations. This role also serves as a delegate for BU Quality Head in customer and internal meetings.

Curia is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.

We proudly offer

• Generous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)
• Paid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)
• Career advancement opportunities
• Education reimbursement
• 401K program with matching contributions
• Learning platform
• And more!

Responsibilities

• Key enabler for BU Quality Head – Support the sites in quality operational activities including regulatory inspections and customer audits, investigation reviews, and batch record reviews related oversight activities
• Role requires significant travel to the sites as needed
• Participates in the BU and site’s Quality Management Review meetings and Inspection Readiness meetings; and verifies effectiveness of the Quality Systems through site visits and deviation/CAPA reviews
• Collaborates between sites and customers for finalizing quality agreements to standardize the requirements across all sites
• Provides technical and quality support for the implementation of global standards and procedures at the sites
• Acts as an extension of the BU Quality Head when attending site leadership team meetings as well as quality team meetings
• Develops and delivers various training to the sites to emphasize compliance to site and global procedures. Trainings also include leading qualification programs (e.g., Investigations) at the sites
• Provides technical support as required for the implementation of electronic systems such as DMS and LIMS at the sites
• Participates in the development of responses at the sites to address regulatory inspection findings
• Facilitates and reviews gap assessments performed by the sites for inspectional findings across the network; and to corporate procedures and standards. Supports the sites in meeting requirements, as needed
• Plays a key role as above site Quality representative in customer business reviews, escalations and other meetings to drive Quality decisions
• Readily available to travel to the sites, to assess the Quality Systems, provide trainings and during inspection readiness preparation activities (facility walkthroughs) and during regulatory inspections
• May serve as staff augmentation on an interim basis, in Quality Leadership; and including staff reviews/goal setting, as needed.

Required

• B.S./B.A. or M.S. degree in Chemistry, Microbiology, Chemical Engineering or related field
• 15+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with at least 8 of those years of experience being in Quality, Quality Assurance, and/or Quality Systems/Compliance, and at least 5 of supervisory experience
• Experience in small molecule API manufacturing and/or Biologics drug substances manufacturing
• Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry regulations applicable to API and Biologic manufacturers
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring and coaching, with ability to motivate teams to reach a common goal
• Strategic thinking—problem solver

Other Qualifications

• Must pass a background check
• Must pass a drug screen
• May be required to pass Occupational Health Screening
• May be required to obtain and maintain gowning certification
• May be required to obtain and maintain media qualification

Pay Range: $196,800-$237,100/year

Education, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.

Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. Curia is an E-Verify employer.