Senior Manager, Quality Assurance
About the role
Sodexo is seeking a Senior Manager, Quality Assurance to lead GxP operations for a pharmaceutical company’s Rahway, NJ campus, providing strategic and day-to-day quality oversight across internal teams and GxP service providers. This role ensures GxP compliance across scientific, laboratory, and shipping services, leading audits and investigations, root cause analysis, SOP development, training compliance, supplier oversight, and new hire GxP training. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to maintain audit readiness, manage quality incidents, and optimize system performance across key compliance platforms. As an individual contributor, you will complete specific tasks and projects, performing specialized technical tasks to support operations, working primarily independently with occasional team collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Lead GxP operations and provide strategic and day-to-day quality oversight
- Ensure GxP compliance across scientific, laboratory, and shipping services
- Lead audits and investigations, perform root cause analysis
- Develop SOPs and oversee training compliance
- Manage supplier oversight and new hire GxP training
- Maintain audit readiness with cross-functional teams
- Manage quality incidents and optimize system performance across compliance platforms
- Perform specialized technical tasks to support operations
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 3 years of related experience
Qualifications
- Proven experience supporting quality and compliance initiatives within pharmaceutical or life sciences environments
- Deep knowledge of GxP standards
- Hands‑on expertise in leading or supporting L0–L4 audits, including preparation, execution, and follow‑up actions
- Background in working with Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) teams and applying Quality Assurance practices in complex operational settings