Head, Clinical Trial QA

The Opportunity:

• The Head of Clinical Trial Quality Assurance role maintain and enhance the Global Clinical Trial Quality System supporting Early to Late-stage clinical development projects within R&D, utilizing and improving the existing R&D Quality Management System in alignment with CSL overarching Quality Management System administered and managed by Global Quality.
  
• This position strategically oversees aspects of the R&D Quality Management in relation to key quality elements such as Document Management, Knowledge Management, Significant Issue / Serious Breach Management, Deviation and CAPA Management, Risk Management, Continuous Improvement, Inspection Management, Change Management and R&D Quality Governance associated with R&D clinical development.
  
• The role manages a Global Clinical quality department supporting early and late-stage clinical trials for all CSL business units across all R&D anchor sites.
  
• Develop and maintain an approach for inspection management related to clinical trials and the R&D QMS, focused on preparing CSLB for Sponsor Monitor inspections that will focus on R&D development programs.
  
• The Head of Clinical Trial Quality Assurance is a key leadership position for providing strategic direction and managerial oversight as the global footprint of CSLB expands. This is especially relevant as CSLB enters new emerging growth markets where integration and alignment with the global R&D Quality Management System is business critical.
  

The Role:

• Direct, manage, and strategically improve clinical quality assurance (CQA) function globally. Ensuring best use of capabilities, expertise, and harmonized processes/procedures within Global CQA to enable consistent implementation of standards, integrity of processes, structures and systems on a global scale, including emerging markets
  
• Provide high quality GCP and cross functional consultancy expertise to guide the R&D organization and leadership in maintaining required compliance

Provide GCP and process related guidance and support

Works with teams/ senior management to investigate and resolve non-compliance, deviations and process related issues providing recommendations for solutions and CAPAs as needed

Ensure continuous assessment of key quality/performance indicators across entire pre-clinical and clinical system

Ensure the provision of accurate and timely reports on pre-clinical/clinical development metrics, findings, and trends stemming from audits, inspections and deviations and proposes and/or implements improvement initiatives, as needed

Lead appropriate governance meetings and ensure adequate attendance of CQA staff to relevant meetings globally where CQA input is required, e.g. compliance monitoring/ signals, and other governance bodies

Ensure analysis and reporting of audit observations, gaps and systematic issues to relevant CSL management functions to improve processes within Pre-Clinical/ Clinical Development as well as affiliates, 3rd party vendors and interfacing functions.

Evaluate adequacy and completeness of CAPAs originating from audits, deviations and/or inspections. Including communication and presentation of summaries of audit findings, trends, KPIs with recommendations to drive significant continuous improvement activities

Ensure timely reporting of serious GxP breaches to Regulatory Authorities, as required.

Develop and oversee a GxP appropriate significant quality issues management procedure

Provide leadership and guidance in the preparation, conduct and response preparation relating to health authority inspections and 3rd party audits

Direct/lead preparation activities for inspections and 3rd party audits; ensure preparation of inspection strategy plans and their timely implementation, lead/ direct mock inspections/ mock inspection activities

Ensure adequate communication of results and inspection preparedness to appropriate customer groups/ upper/ executive management

Act as primary Inspection Coordinator during inspections, including direct interaction with inspectors in preparation, during conduct and follow-up of inspection

Support CSL affiliates with external CQA audits and inspections

Globally direct and actively conduct for-cause activities and other complex compliance related investigations, as needed

Support of GMP/ PV health authority inspections, as required

Collaborate with other GxP area heads to ensure consistency in approach and to ensure there are no gaps or duplications of effort

Responsible for maintenance and further development of Global CQA systems and processes to ensure coordination and alignment with other CSL/Global Quality and compliance functions

Direct and oversee appropriate global workforce planning to ensure appropriate allocation and utilization of Global CQA and QMS resources

Develop and evolve partnership and collaboration with partnering functions

Contribute ideas to the larger strategic vision of Global R&D Quality/ Global Quality and interact with the respective Leadership Team to ensure continuous alignment on strategy and vision

Skills & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree (BA/BS) in Scientific discipline/Life Sciences or similar. Advanced degree preferred
  
• 10+ years' pharmaceutical company experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Management Systems and/or in a Clinical Development related role
  
• Previous experience with inspection management preferred
  
• Additional experience in Pharmacovigilance/GMP/Pre-Clinical related roles is desirable
  
• Strong leadership role with experience in pre-clinical/clinical regulations and knowledge of international and national laws, regulations and guidelines related to the conduct of Research & Development
  
• High ethical standards as well as acknowledged personal credibility, the ability to gain trust at the senior executive level
  
• Visible and credible advocate for compliance and quality concepts with excellent communication skills across all levels of the business
  
• Analytical and logical, can design and implement innovative, significant and complex business improvements
  
• Ability to think strategically and to quickly analyze complex circumstances and problems, and to drive appropriate decisions, actions and resolutions
  
• Experience of working in global cross functional teams, demonstrated ability in mentoring/ coaching/ directing staff to be quality advocates, influencers, leaders
  
• Demonstrated ability to provide vision and leadership within teams, internally cross-company and externally with stakeholders
  
• Experience in Quality Systems e.g. Deviation, CAPA and Change management processes
  
• Sound customer focus, strong organization, communication (written and oral), influencing and negotiation skills
  
• Proficient in English and standard MS Office applications
  

About CSL Behring

CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics leader driven by our promise to save lives. Focused on serving patients' needs by using the latest technologies, we discover, develop and deliver innovative therapies for people living with conditions in the immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant therapeutic areas. We use three strategic scientific platforms of plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy to support continued innovation and continually refine ways in which products can address unmet medical needs and help patients lead full lives.

CSL Behring operates one of the world's largest plasma collection networks, CSL Plasma. Our parent company, CSL, headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, employs 32,000 people, and delivers its lifesaving therapies to people in more than 100 countries.

To learn more about CSL, CSL Behring, CSL Seqirus and CSL Vifor visit https://www.csl.com/ and CSL Plasma at https://www.cslplasma.com/.

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