Quality Assurance Manager, Medical Device & Combination Products

Pfizer; Andover (MA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with Pfizer match

Paid vacation & holidays

Parental leave

Health, dental, vision insurance

Job summary

Pfizer is seeking a Manager, Medical Device Quality Assurance to oversee quality activities across lifecycle, ensuring design controls, risk management, and regulatory compliance for medical devices and combination products.

The role involves collaborating across departments, guiding investigations, and supporting post-market changes with a focus on patient safety and regulatory readiness. Hybrid work arrangement offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher with required experience in Quality Assurance or regulatory environment.
• Experience with design controls, risk management and quality systems in medical devices or pharmaceutical spaces.
• Ability to work across cross-functional teams and make risk-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical quality oversight across product lifecycle.
• Support development, sustaining and complaint investigations to ensure regulatory readiness.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Regulatory knowledge

Design controls

Risk management

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

PhD

Associate's degree

High school diploma

Job description

USE YOUR POWER FOR PURPOSE

Everything we do, every day, is in line with an unwavering commitment to the quality and the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our science and risk‑based compliant quality culture is flexible, innovative, and customer oriented. Whether you are involved in development, maintenance, compliance or analysis through research programs, your contribution will directly impact patients.

What You Will Achieve

This role is part of Pfizer’s Medical Device and Combination Products (MDCP) Quality Operations team. In this role, you will serve as a key quality partner supporting development, sustaining, and complaint activities across the product lifecycle. The Manager, Medical Device Quality Assurance, is responsible for ensuring that medical devices and combination products are developed and maintained in compliance with applicable design control requirements and key regulatory standards, including 21 CFR 820, ISO 13485, and ISO 14971. You will provide strategic and technical quality oversight for both complex programs and for complaint investigations, guide risk‑based decision‑making, and help ensure compliance with applicable design control and quality system requirements. You will work across functions to resolve issues, strengthen processes, and support product quality, patient safety, and regulatory readiness.

HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED (Minimum Requirements)

• Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience; OR a master's degree with at least 2 years of experience; OR a PhD with 0+ years of experience; OR an associate's degree with 8 years of experience; OR a high school diploma (or equivalent) and 10 years of relevant experience working in Quality Assurance, GMP manufacturing environment, pharmaceutical environment, or medical device space.
• Experience supporting quality activities in medical devices, combination products, pharmaceuticals, or another highly regulated industry.
• Working knowledge of applicable quality and regulatory requirements, such as design controls, risk management, and quality system requirements relevant to medical devices and/or combination products or pharmaceutical products.
• Experience supporting product development and/or sustaining lifecycle activities, including change control and ongoing product maintenance.
• Ability to work effectively across cross‑functional teams and make sound, risk‑based decisions in complex or ambiguous situations.
• Strong communication, influencing, and collaboration skills.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work effectively with quality documentation, systems, and data.

BONUS POINTS IF YOU HAVE (Preferred Requirements)

• Experience in both medical device and pharmaceutical quality environments, especially combination products.
• Strong experience with design controls and risk management across the product lifecycle, from development through launch and post‑market sustaining.
• Experience supporting on‑market product changes, post‑approval changes, supplier or component changes, and manufacturing transfers.
• Experience with post‑market surveillance, complaint evaluation, periodic product review, and remediation activities.
• Working knowledge of combination product regulations, including 21 CFR Part 4, and broader medical device regulatory expectations.
• Experience partnering with suppliers, vendors, or external manufacturers in a regulated environment.
• Experience applying a risk‑based approach to complex quality decisions in fast‑paced, cross‑functional settings.
• Familiarity with verification, validation, process validation, usability, software, or other technical development areas relevant to medical device programs.

Non‑standard Work Schedule, Travel Or Environment Requirements

• The role may include frequent business travel across Pfizer manufacturing sites, vendors, and suppliers.

Other Job Details

Work Location Assignment: Hybrid

Last Date to Apply for Job: September 28, 2026

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,200.00 to $165,400.00.* In addition, this position is eligible for participation in Pfizer’s Global Performance Plan with a bonus target of 12.5% of the base salary and eligibility to participate in our share‑based long term incentive program.

We offer comprehensive and generous benefits and programs to help our colleagues lead healthy lives and to support each of life’s moments. Benefits offered include a 401(k) plan with Pfizer Matching Contributions and an additional Pfizer Retirement Savings Contribution, paid vacation, holiday and personal days, paid caregiver/parental and medical leave, and health benefits to include medical, prescription drug, dental and vision coverage. Learn more at Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits | (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com).

• The annual base salary for this position in Tampa, FL ranges from $89,400.00 to $149,000.00.

This role is posted in multiple locations. If you are applying for the role in an secondary job posting location where pay transparency regulations apply, your Talent Advisor will share the local pay information with you during the first interview.

Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.

Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.

U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.

Sunshine Act

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EEO & Employment Eligibility

Pfizer is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status. Pfizer also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA. Pfizer is an E‑Verify employer. This position requires permanent work authorization in the United States.