Principal Auditor, Quality Assurance

Principal Auditor Quality Assurance

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development.

The Issue Lead will be responsible for driving QE case management, ensuring that investigations are conducted thoroughly within timelines and compliance requirements, overseeing the efficiency of the process of GCP investigations, and leveraging data to assess the efficiency / performance of the appropriate teams to perform interventions as needed. The Issue Lead will also triage submitted cases to ascertain if the Quality Event (QE) threshold has been met and assess cases to determine if they need expedited reporting to senior management and/regulatory authorities and be accountable for managing confirmed Quality Event (QE) case through the investigation process including root cause analysis.

What You Will Do:

• Quality Event Assessment and Investigation: Accountable for the review and classification of submitted quality issues to ascertain if the QE threshold has been met and ensuring that each submitted issue is reviewed based on the established criteria, is categorized appropriately, and completed within the required time frame to ensure that events are appropriately qualified enabling expedited investigation where necessary. Responsible for completing the necessary documentation in the eQMS system regarding the assessment of the submitted events.

• Notification to Management: Responsible for initiating appropriate escalation of Critical QEs when necessary, ensuring that management is promptly and appropriately informed of quality events. Required to assess critical issues and identify these items as appropriate for escalation to leadership via the Notification to Management process.

• Root Cause Analysis / Gap Analysis / Due Diligence: Once assigned a qualified event, the Issue Lead will initiate the investigation of the event to confirm the chronology and details of the issue. This individual will also be required to apply a root cause analysis, gap analysis, and / or due diligence investigation to the case. The individual will be trained in the application of an appropriate methodology and will apply it as part of the management of the case. Investigation will include reviewing relevant SOPs and supporting documents to understand what should have happened per our documented process and identifying what did not happen per the process. In addition, the investigation will include review of relevant documentation re: the event and assembling the QE team with appropriate stakeholders (SME's, study team members, etc.) to review and confirm the details of the event

• Process Analysis and Improvement: Responsible for contributing to process development and improvement for case management including contributing to the development of technology (in collaboration with PFE Digital) to enable the process. In addition, the individual, along with Senior Issue Lead peers, will develop and implement guidance documents and training to assist the investigation leads in completing cases to expectations.

• CAPA Plan Development and Management: Accountable for ongoing monitoring of CAPA completion and tracking of effectiveness for implemented mitigation actions to ensure they are working as expected—for quality events, inspections and audits

  • Ensure implementation of QE / audit / inspection CAPAs and remediation plans

  • Track effectiveness checks and report on trend

• Risk Mitigation Tracking: Track and ensure implementation of risk mitigations and evaluate potential impacts to business.

Your Profile:

• 7+ years’ experience or equivalent with BS or 6+ years’ experience or equivalent with MBA/MS

• Minimum of 5 years of pharmaceutical experience with solid experience in data management, operational aspects, GCP Quality, GxP Quality, and/or regulatory

• Regulatory inspection experience

• Process and system management experience

• Detailed knowledge of clinical trial processes and relationships required

• Knowledge of GCP requirements and applicable SOPs and regulations

• Project management, administrative, and technical capabilities are required, as well as effective verbal and

• Strong background in continuous improvement methodology (i.e., Lean Six Sigma) preferred

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What ICON can offer you:
Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements
• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.
• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.
• Global Employee Assistance Programme, LifeWorks, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialized professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.
• Life assurance
• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidized travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

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Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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