Senior Manager, Clinical Program Quality and Excellence (Oncology)
Takeda · Boston, MA · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteQuality Assurance$137k–$215k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Remove boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Also remove application instructions (the initial paragraph about clicking Apply). Also remove "Benefits For information about our benefits, please click here." but we can include benefits if there is content; but they only gave a link placeholder, no specifics. So we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. Pay: they gave salary range. So we include Pay section with that info. Schedule: they gave travel requirement and maybe full time. They gave "Worker Type: Employee", "Worker Sub-Type: Regular", "Time Type: Full time", "Job Exempt: Yes". Also travel 30%. So we can include Schedule section with full-time, travel 30%, maybe location virtual. But schedule heading is for schedule info; we can include full-time and travel. However they said only include Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections if posting actually states them. They gave schedule info (full time, travel). So include Schedule. We also need About the role? The job description includes objective and accountabilities. Could map to About the role (summary) and Responsibilities (accountabilities). Requirements, Qualifications, Skills: we have education, behavioural competencies and skills, licenses/certifications, physical demands, travel requirements. We'll need to decide sections. We must not create thin sections; prefer few substantive sections. Could combine some. We have: - About the role: objective summary (first paragraph). Could be a
. - Responsibilities: the list of accountabilities (bulleted). Use
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- Requirements: education, experience, etc. Could be a
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- Qualifications/Skills: maybe combine education/behavioural competencies and skills into Requirements? But they asked separate headings possible. We need to decide.
We have "EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS :" includes BS/BA required; Advanced Degree preferred; Minimum 7 years experience; Minimum 5 years GCP-related QA; Extensive knowledge of ICH GCP R2; Advanced knowledge in conduct/reporting of audits; Collaborative team player; Effective technical writing; Excellent communication; Strong judgment/project management/decision-making; Superior attention to detail; ability to analyse complex data.
Also "LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS : GCP Quality Assurance registration/certification preferred"
Also "PHYSICAL DEMANDS:: Routine demands of an office-based environment"
Also "TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS : Willingness to travel to various meetings and/or audits, including overnight trips. Some international travel may be required. Requires approximately 30% travel."
We could have sections: Responsibilities, Requirements (education/experience), Skills (behavioural competencies), Qualifications (licenses/certs), maybe Schedule, Pay.
But we need to avoid thin sections. Could combine Requirements and Skills into one "Requirements" section that includes education, experience, skills, licenses, physical demands, travel. But they'd like headings for specific categories if content exists. However we can decide to have sections: About the role (objective), Responsibilities (accountabilities), Requirements (education, experience, skills, licenses, physical demands, travel), Pay, Schedule.
That seems reasonable.
Now we need to extract all substantive info and preserve.
Let's parse the job description text.
First part: "Job Description: OBJECTIVE:S:: Provides quality assurance oversight of the global clinical research programs in Research and Development (R&D), Plasma Derived Therapy (PDT), Vaccines Business Unit (VBU), Oncology Business Unit (OBU) and Global Medical Marketed Products Development (MPD) with the overall goal of inspection readiness. Serves as a Strategic Quality Thought Partner to Clinical Program Teams and other key stakeholders in the delivery of the clinical research programs, providing professional clinical research quality expertise and risk-based advice. With the guidance of Head of Clinical Program Quality, TAU, defines and implements a risk-based program audit strategy, ensuring communication of significant quality and compliance risks to key stakeholders and Management and appropriate and timely investigations and mitigations are in place. Leads the clinical pre-approval inspection (PAI) readiness programs, the management of the inspection and the response and follow-up activities. Ensures that any inspection risks are well-communicated and mitigated. These inspections include both sponsor and investigator sites."
That's the objective/summary.
Then "ACCOUNTABILITIES :" followed by a list of bullet-like sentences separated by spaces. We need to turn each into
- . Let's extract each accountability:
- Provide expertise in GCP compliance interpretation, consultation, training, and recommendations to assigned program teams and leadership
- Develop and implement program-specific risk-based audit and compliance strategy and manage audits of sites, clinical trial delivery, documents, databases, vendors or internal systems in compliance with GCP and Takeda policies and procedures.
- Audits require advanced auditing skills and may involve technically complex assignments.
- Assess impact of audit findings and other identified compliance risks to subject safety, data integrity, and business operations and escalate compliance risks to CPMQ management.
- Ensure audit reports and corrective actions are developed and completed within timelines mandated in internal procedures
- Facilitate investigations into significant quality issues, scientific misconduct and serious breach of GCP; facilitate identification of root cause and development of appropriate corrective and preventive actions; track actions and confirm effectiveness; ensure reporting of potential or confirmed violations to regulatory authorities.
- Assist with management of GCP health authority inspections; lead clinical development teams in preparation for announced inspections and provide GCP compliance technical support during inspections of investigator sites and Takeda.
- Facilitate appropriate and timely inspection responses and follow-up actions.
- Collaborate with Quality Compliance and Systems team to identify and mitigate GCP quality and compliance issues with potential impact across multiple compounds, Takeda sites, or functional groups.
- Analyse, report, and present metrics for assigned programs to development teams and CPMQ management; recommend any required actions and monitor implementation.
- Escalate systemic and/or critical problems and recommend appropriate solutions to senior management for immediate and long-term resolution
- Perform additional GCP related activities upon request by CPMQ management
Now "EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS :" list:
- BS/BA required; Advanced Degree preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or related health care industry.
- Minimum 5 years of GCP-related Quality Assurance or relevant clinical trial experience.
- Extensive knowledge and/or awareness of ICH GCP R2 and applicable global regulations and guidance for clinical development
- Advanced knowledge in the conduct and reporting of audits and the translation of findings into corrective actions plans that mitigate risks to the company, to safety and data integrity.
- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude and ability to think and act quickly to identify creative solutions to complex problems
- Effective technical writing skills; able to write quality positions, audit reports, and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to negotiate and influence without authority in a matrix environment
- Strong judgment, project management and decision-making skills; able to manage multiple projects and demanding timelines
- Superior attention to detail and ability to analyse complex data
"LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS : GCP Quality Assurance registration/certification preferred"
"PHYSICAL DEMANDS:: Routine demands of an office-based environment"
"TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS : Willingness to travel to various meetings and/or audits, including overnight trips. Some international travel may be required. Requires approximately 30% travel."
Now compensation: "Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. For Location: USA - MA - Virtual U.S. Base Salary Range : $137,000.00 - $215,270.00 The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location."
We need to preserve that salary range. Also location: USA - MA - Virtual. Could include in schedule or about role? Probably schedule section includes location and work type.
Now benefits: they only gave "For information about our benefits, please click here." No specifics, so we skip Benefits section.
EEO statement etc removed.
Now schedule: we have "Worker Type: Employee", "Worker Sub-Type: Regular", "Time Type: Full time", "Job Exempt: Yes", "Travel: approx 30%", location "USA - MA - Virtual". Also maybe "It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment." That's legal boilerplate; we should remove.
Thus schedule section: include full-time, employee, regular, exempt, travel 30%, location virtual (MA). Could be a
with those details. Now About the role: we can use the objective paragraph(s). Could also include a brief summary. Now we need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown. We'll produce:
About the role
...objective text...
Responsibilities
- ... each accountability ... ...
Requirements
- BS/BA required; Advanced Degree preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or related health care industry.
- Minimum 5 years of GCP-related Quality Assurance or relevant clinical trial experience.
- Extensive knowledge and/or awareness of ICH GCP R2 and applicable global regulations and guidance for clinical development
- Advanced knowledge in the conduct and reporting of audits and the translation of findings into corrective actions plans that mitigate risks to the company, to safety and data integrity.
- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude and ability to think and act quickly to identify creative solutions to complex problems
- Effective technical writing skills; able to write quality positions, audit reports, and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to negotiate and influence without authority in a matrix environment
- Strong judgment, project management and decision-making skills; able to manage multiple projects and demanding timelines
- Superior attention to detail and ability to analyse complex data
- GCP Quality Assurance registration/certification preferred
- Physical demands: routine demands of an office-based environment
- Willingness to travel to various meetings and/or audits, including overnight trips; some international travel may be required; approximately 30% travel.
Pay
U.S. Base Salary Range: $137,000.00 - $215,270.00 (for location USA - MA - Virtual). Actual base salary offered may depend on qualifications, experience, skills, education, certifications, and location, and will comply with state or local minimum wage requirements.
Schedule
Full-time position; Employee, Regular, Exempt; located in USA - MA - Virtual; requires approximately 30% travel (including overnight and some international trips).
We need to ensure we didn't repeat job title. Good. Check for any boilerplate leftover: we removed EEO, legal, application instructions, benefits link, etc. Check for any duplicated lines: we
- . Let's extract each accountability:
- Provide expertise in GCP compliance interpretation, consultation, training, and recommendations to assigned program teams and leadership
- Develop and implement program-specific risk-based audit and compliance strategy and manage audits of sites, clinical trial delivery, documents, databases, vendors or internal systems in compliance with GCP and Takeda policies and procedures.
- Audits require advanced auditing skills and may involve technically complex assignments.
- Assess impact of audit findings and other identified compliance risks to subject safety, data integrity, and business operations and escalate compliance risks to CPMQ management.
- Ensure audit reports and corrective actions are developed and completed within timelines mandated in internal procedures
- Facilitate investigations into significant quality issues, scientific misconduct and serious breach of GCP; facilitate identification of root cause and development of appropriate corrective and preventive actions; track actions and confirm effectiveness; ensure reporting of potential or confirmed violations to regulatory authorities.
- Assist with management of GCP health authority inspections; lead clinical development teams in preparation for announced inspections and provide GCP compliance technical support during inspections of investigator sites and Takeda.
- Facilitate appropriate and timely inspection responses and follow-up actions.
- Collaborate with Quality Compliance and Systems team to identify and mitigate GCP quality and compliance issues with potential impact across multiple compounds, Takeda sites, or functional groups.
- Analyse, report, and present metrics for assigned programs to development teams and CPMQ management; recommend any required actions and monitor implementation.
- Escalate systemic and/or critical problems and recommend appropriate solutions to senior management for immediate and long-term resolution
- Perform additional GCP related activities upon request by CPMQ management
Now "EDUCATION, BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS :" list:
- BS/BA required; Advanced Degree preferred.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or related health care industry.
- Minimum 5 years of GCP-related Quality Assurance or relevant clinical trial experience.
- Extensive knowledge and/or awareness of ICH GCP R2 and applicable global regulations and guidance for clinical development
- Advanced knowledge in the conduct and reporting of audits and the translation of findings into corrective actions plans that mitigate risks to the company, to safety and data integrity.
- Collaborative team player with a positive attitude and ability to think and act quickly to identify creative solutions to complex problems
- Effective technical writing skills; able to write quality positions, audit reports, and procedures.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to negotiate and influence without authority in a matrix environment
- Strong judgment, project management and decision-making skills; able to manage multiple projects and demanding timelines
- Superior attention to detail and ability to analyse complex data
"LICENSES/CERTIFICATIONS : GCP Quality Assurance registration/certification preferred"
"PHYSICAL DEMANDS:: Routine demands of an office-based environment"
"TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS : Willingness to travel to various meetings and/or audits, including overnight trips. Some international travel may be required. Requires approximately 30% travel."
Now compensation: "Takeda Compensation and Benefits Summary: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. We are committed to equitable pay for all employees, and we strive to be more transparent with our pay practices. For Location: USA - MA - Virtual U.S. Base Salary Range : $137,000.00 - $215,270.00 The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location."
We need to preserve that salary range. Also location: USA - MA - Virtual. Could include in schedule or about role? Probably schedule section includes location and work type.
Now benefits: they only gave "For information about our benefits, please click here." No specifics, so we skip Benefits section.
EEO statement etc removed.
Now schedule: we have "Worker Type: Employee", "Worker Sub-Type: Regular", "Time Type: Full time", "Job Exempt: Yes", "Travel: approx 30%", location "USA - MA - Virtual". Also maybe "It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment." That's legal boilerplate; we should remove.
Thus schedule section: include full-time, employee, regular, exempt, travel 30%, location virtual (MA). Could be a