Vice President of Quality Control
TSP, a Syneos Health company · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteQuality AssuranceFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings where content exists. Must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. Use for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. The posting includes description, role purpose, core responsibilities, candidate profile & required qualifications, preferred attributes, working conditions. There's no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not include those sections. We can have sections: About the role (maybe from description?), Responsibilities (core responsibilities), Requirements (candidate profile & required qualifications), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements? but we can combine? The instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Responsibilities, Requirements (educational background, modality expertise, senior executive experience, analytical breadth, regulatory & inspection acumen, contract services exposure, executive communication, location). Also Preferred Attributes could go under Skills or Qualifications? Probably Skills. Working Conditions could be under Requirements? But we can create a section "Working Conditions" not in list; but only allowed headings are those listed. So we must map content to those headings. Could put working conditions under Responsibilities? Not ideal. Maybe we can create a section "Requirements" and include both required qualifications and working conditions as part of requirements. Or we could create a separate section "Skills" for preferred attributes. The instruction: "Use
. The responsibilities are many bullet-like sentences under "Core Responsibilities". We need to extract each distinct responsibility.
Let's parse the responsibilities section:
Core Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Organizational Scaling
- Department Architecture: Build and mature a world-class QC organization, establishing governance models, standardized workflows, operational rigor, and high-performance norms across all analytical teams.
- Operational Strategy: Drive the end-to-end execution framework for analytical testing, ensuring rapid release cycles, stringent compliance with USP/EP/JP compendia, robust assay qualification, and complete audit readiness.
- Advanced Modality Oversight: Provide overarching scientific leadership across diverse analytical domains, including bioassays (potency, infectivity, replication-competence assays), molecular biology (genomic titers, sequencing, vector integrity), and physicochemical characterization (capsid ratios, purity, aggregate profiling).
- Facility Contamination Control: Direct microbiological quality, bioburden testing, and comprehensive environmental monitoring strategies across sterile manufacturing areas and cleanroom environments.
- Method Lifecycle & Tech Transfer: Partner with upstream development leadership to institutionalize formal analytical transfer protocols, qualifying robust methods prior to GMP implementation.
- Capital & Resource Planning: Oversee departmental budgeting, headcount modeling, instrumentation investments, and laboratory footprint expansion to keep pace with commercial growth.
- Enterprise Risk Governance: Serve as an executive point of escalation for complex quality investigations, regulatory inquiries, and program milestones.
GMP Execution, Laboratory Systems & Compliance
- Technical Redundancy & Continuity: Maintain comprehensive cross-training matrices and redundancy across critical analytical platforms to prevent operational bottlenecks.
- Manufacturing Alignment: Partner closely with production leaders to define clear analytical turnaround times, sample hand-off chains, and immediate escalation workflows for out-of-trend (OOT) or out-of-specification (OOS) data.
- Validation Standards: Ensure comprehensive validation, qualification, and verification of analytical methodologies per ICH Q2 standards, FDA/EMA regulations, and global GMP guidelines.
- Investigation Management: Drive rigorous root-cause analyses, deviation assessments, and effective CAPA implementation across all analytical workflows.
- Regulatory & Audit Representation: Function as the chief technical subject matter expert for QC during regulatory health authority inspections and customer quality audits.
- Digital Systems & Data Integrity: Enforce strict ALCOA+ data integrity standards across all laboratory operations; lead the ongoing deployment and optimization of electronic Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Part 11 compliant digital architectures.
Stability Governance & External Partner Management
- Stability Architecture: Direct ICH Q1A/Q1B-compliant stability programs across all stages of development and commercial shelf-life verification, ensuring rigorous statistical trending and reporting.
- Contract Laboratory Management: Oversee external analytical testing vendors, managing quality agreements, statement of work execution, testing turnaround, and data integration.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Talent Development
- Quality & Regulatory Interface: Partner seamlessly with Quality Assurance on formal change control processes, inspection preparedness, and regulatory filing support.
- External Client Interface: Represent the organization’s analytical testing strategy in key client technical committees and regulatory submission meetings.
- Talent Strategy: Recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier scientific talent; design multi-tiered career pathways and execute shift scheduling models to support continuous multi-shift GMP operations.
We need to preserve all that. So each bullet becomes .
Now Requirements: Candidate Profile & Required Qualifications.
Educational Background: Advanced degree (Ph.D. or Master’s) in Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Virology, or a related scientific field, paired with 15+ years of progressive biopharmaceutical industry experience within regulated cGMP settings (or equivalent blend of education and senior leadership tenure).
Modality Expertise: In-depth technical mastery of analytical and quality paradigms for complex biologics and genetic therapies (AAV, viral vectors, or cell/gene therapies), including sterile fill/finish and commercial product lifecycles.
Senior Executive Experience: Demonstrated history of building and leading sizable, high-performing GMP Quality Control or Analytical Operations organizations within advanced therapy or biomanufacturing sectors.
Analytical Breadth: Deep hands-on and managerial familiarity with viral vector characterization techniques:
Molecular assays (e.g., ddPCR, qPCR, NGS, capsid packaging analysis).
Cell-based biological assays (e.g., cell viability, viral potency, transduction assays, tcID50).
Protein biochemistry and biophysical tools (e.g., UPLC/HPLC, capillary electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, ELISA).
Regulatory & Inspection Acumen: Proven record leading successful FDA, EMA, or other health authority facility inspections, with deep familiarity with ICH guidelines (Q1, Q2, Q5, Q6), 21 CFR Part 211, and Annex 1.
Contract Services Exposure: Prior success operating within client-facing, multi-product environments (such as a CDMO, CMO, or complex partner-driven biopharma ecosystem).
Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to distill nuanced scientific and regulatory data into actionable strategic insights for executive boards, corporate partners, and regulatory bodies.
Location: Physical presence onsite is required to lead laboratory operations and operational teams.
We need to preserve all. Could break each into . Also note the sub-bullets under Analytical Breadth: we can keep as part of same or separate? Probably keep as part of same with line breaks? But we must output HTML; we can include line breaks via
or keep as text. Simpler: keep as one containing the description with subpoints separated by commas or semicolons.
Now Skills: Preferred Attributes.
Successful track record supporting late-stage commercialization milestones, including BLA/MAA authoring, Process Performance Qualification (PPQ) analytical testing, and commercial launch readiness.
Direct experience leading Pre-Approval Inspection (PAI) defense for biologics or advanced therapy products.
Practical background leading Manufacturing Science and Technology (MSAT) or analytical method transfer teams within contract manufacturing networks.
Demonstrated leadership in LIMS selection, custom workflow build-out, and enterprise laboratory digitization.
Also Working Conditions: This executive role requires dedicated onsite engagement to maintain visible scientific leadership and operational governance across laboratory suites and administrative offices. The role involves routine walking between laboratory environments, gowning in classified spaces, and occasional lifting of laboratory supplies (up to 25 lbs). Domestic and international travel (up to 25%) may be required to support partner interactions, supplier assessments, and scientific symposiums.
We could include Working Conditions under Skills or Requirements? Probably under Skills as it's about working conditions. But the instruction says use headings e.g., About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can put Working Conditions under Skills as part of skills? Might be odd but acceptable. Or we could create a separate section "Requirements" and include Working Conditions there as part of requirements (like location). But we already have location under Requirements. Could add working conditions as another under Requirements.
Better: Keep Requirements for mandatory qualifications (education, experience, etc.) and Skills for preferred attributes and working conditions. That seems logical.
Thus:
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections if posting has real specific content. The posting includes description, role purpose, core responsibilities, candidate profile & required qualifications, preferred attributes, working conditions. There's no explicit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not include those sections. We can have sections: About the role (maybe from description?), Responsibilities (core responsibilities), Requirements (candidate profile & required qualifications), Qualifications (maybe same as requirements? but we can combine? The instruction says use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Responsibilities, Requirements (educational background, modality expertise, senior executive experience, analytical breadth, regulatory & inspection acumen, contract services exposure, executive communication, location). Also Preferred Attributes could go under Skills or Qualifications? Probably Skills. Working Conditions could be under Requirements? But we can create a section "Working Conditions" not in list; but only allowed headings are those listed. So we must map content to those headings. Could put working conditions under Responsibilities? Not ideal. Maybe we can create a section "Requirements" and include both required qualifications and working conditions as part of requirements. Or we could create a separate section "Skills" for preferred attributes. The instruction: "Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It says e.g., meaning those are examples; we can use those headings. It doesn't forbid other headings? It says use those for section headings. Likely we should stick to those. So we need to map content to those headings.
We have:
- About the role: description paragraph at start: "On behalf of our client, an expanding biopharmaceutical manufacturing leader, we are conducting a search for a Vice President of Analytical Operations & Quality Control. Our client operates a comprehensive, commercial-scale cGMP biomanufacturing campus..." That's about the role.
- Responsibilities: Core Responsibilities section.
- Requirements: Candidate Profile & Required Qualifications (education, experience, etc.)
- Qualifications: maybe Preferred Attributes? Or we could treat Qualifications as same as Requirements but we need both? Could put Preferred Attributes under Skills.
- Skills: Preferred Attributes.
- Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not present, so omit.
We must not include empty sections.
Thus output:
About the role
About the role
... (the description paragraph)
Responsibilities
- ... each responsibility item
or keep as text. Simpler: keep as one
Requirements
- Educational Background: Advanced degree (Ph.D. or Master’s) in Analytical Chemistry, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Virology, or a related scientific field, paired with 15+ years of progressive biopharmaceutical industry experience within regulated cGMP settings (or equivalent blend of education and senior leadership tenure).
- Modality Expertise: In-depth technical mastery of analytical and quality paradigms for complex biologics and genetic therapies (AAV, viral vectors, or cell/gene therapies), including sterile fill/finish and commercial product lifecycles.
- Senior Executive Experience: Demonstrated history of building and leading sizable, high-performing GMP Quality Control or Analytical Operations organizations within advanced therapy or biomanufacturing sectors.
- Analytical Breadth: Deep hands-on and managerial familiarity with viral vector characterization techniques: Molecular assays (e.g., ddPCR, qPCR, NGS, capsid packaging analysis); Cell-based biological assays (e.g., cell viability, viral potency, transduction assays, tcID50); Protein biochemistry and biophysical tools (e.g., UPLC/HPLC, capillary electrophoresis, mass spectrometry, ELISA).
- Regulatory & Inspection Acumen: Proven record leading successful FDA, EMA, or other health authority facility inspections, with deep familiarity with ICH guidelines (Q1, Q2, Q5, Q6), 21 CFR Part 211, and Annex 1.
- Contract Services Exposure: Prior success operating within client-facing, multi-product environments (such as a CDMO, CMO, or complex partner-driven biopharma ecosystem).
- Executive Communication: Exceptional ability to distill nuanced scientific and regulatory data into actionable strategic insights for executive boards, corporate partners, and regulatory bodies.
- Location: Physical presence onsite is required to lead laboratory operations and operational teams.
Skills
- Successful track record supporting late-stage commercialization milestones, including BLA/MAA