Senior Manager, Quality Assay Validation

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager, Quality Assay Validation based in the United States.

This role provides strategic quality leadership for analytical assay validation and lifecycle management activities supporting vaccine development programs.

The position plays a critical role in ensuring analytical methods are robust, compliant, and ready to support clinical, regulatory, and commercial milestones.

Working across cross-functional teams and external laboratory partners, the role helps advance products from development through commercialization.

The successful candidate will provide GMP oversight, strengthen analytical systems, and support regulatory submission readiness.

This is an opportunity to contribute to global public health initiatives within an innovative and collaborative environment.

The role requires deep expertise in analytical quality, regulatory expectations, and late-stage biologics development.

Accountabilities

The Senior Manager, Quality Assay Validation will serve as a key quality partner responsible for ensuring analytical methods and testing systems meet regulatory, GMP, and commercialization requirements. The role will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to support analytical readiness, product quality, and inspection preparedness.

• Lead quality oversight for assay validation, analytical method transfers, verification activities, comparability assessments, and lifecycle management across development and commercialization programs.
• Review and approve validation protocols, reports, transfer documentation, analytical control strategies, specifications, and lifecycle management records.
• Partner with contract laboratories to ensure GMP compliance, effective investigations, quality performance monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate analytical data packages, certificates of analysis, laboratory investigations, and release testing results to support product disposition decisions.
• Provide oversight of stability programs, trend analyses, shelf-life supporting data, and analytical quality documentation.
• Review and approve deviations, CAPAs, change controls, OOS/OOT investigations, risk assessments, and related quality records.
• Support analytical readiness for technology transfers, process validation activities, PPQ campaigns, regulatory filings, and commercialization preparation.
• Contribute to regulatory submissions, agency interactions, inspection readiness activities, supplier qualifications, audits, and corrective action implementation.
  
  

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Requirements

The ideal candidate brings extensive GMP quality experience in analytical method validation and lifecycle management, with strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and biologics or vaccine development environments.

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree in a scientific discipline.
• 9+ years of GMP Quality experience supporting analytical method validation, transfers, lifecycle management, and commercialization activities within vaccines, biologics, or pharmaceutical development.
• Strong expertise in analytical method qualification, validation, transfer, comparability assessments, specifications, stability testing, and lifecycle strategies.
• Demonstrated experience supporting analytical readiness for process validation, PPQ activities, regulatory submissions, and commercial manufacturing preparation.
• Experience supporting health authority inspections, regulatory filings, and responses to agency questions or observations.
• Working knowledge of 21 CFR Parts 210 and 211, ICH Q2, ICH Q10, FDA analytical validation guidance, and global regulatory expectations.
• Experience supporting analytical sections of BLA, MAA, or equivalent regulatory submissions is preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to travel occasionally based on organizational and business needs.
  
  

Benefits

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• Competitive annual salary range of $120,000 - $148,000, with compensation determined based on skills, experience, training, and qualifications.
• Fully remote work opportunity for candidates located in the United States.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• Flexible spending account options.
• Flexible vacation and sick leave policies.
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
• 11 observed federal holidays and an end-of-year winter break.
• Employer-matching 401(k) retirement plan.
• Opportunity to contribute to initiatives focused on improving global access to vaccines and public health outcomes.
  
  

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