QA Principal Team Lead

Job Title: QA Principal Team Lead, Operations

About the Job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families.

Join our Quality Assurance (QA) Operations team at Sanofi’s Framingham Biologics facilities! We ensure cGMP compliance during manufacturing to guarantee the safety, quality, and efficacy of our products.

As the QA Principal Team Lead, you’ll provide quality support and direction to Manufacturing, Quality Control, and support functions. In the manager’s absence you will lead the QA team, assign tasks, track lot releases, and ensure compliance with cGMPs.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Assign tasks, track lot releases, and delegate activities to Compliance Specialists.

• Collaboration: Work closely with manufacturing, facilities, engineering, and Quality Control departments. Function as SME on challenges related to production requiring quality input.

• Compliance: Conduct audits, review batch records, approve Change Controls, and support internal audits perform release of intermediates and drug substance for further processing

• GEMBA Support: Provide on-the-floor support, issue action notices, and participate in Material Review Board meetings.

• Audits: Represent QA during internal and external audits, addressing questions related to QA systems and product disposition.

• Deviation Management: Approve deviation investigations, support Deviation Governance meetings, and ensure consistency in Quality Systems.

• Decision Making: Challenges include responsible for high complexity decision making related to Quality or Compliance and ensuring that risks or deviation from decisions made by the Quality representative are escalated to QA Operations Management, QA Director or the Quality Site Head as needed to ensure Safety, Identity, Strength, Purity, Quality (SISPQ) of product.

About You

Qualifications:

Basic:

• Masters with 7+ years, Bachelor’s with 9+ years, Associate’s with 11+ years, or High School Diploma with 13+ years in Quality/cGMP. Experience in Quality Engineering/Assurance/Control and knowledge of cGXP regulations and biologics or similar manufacturing processes.

Preferred:

• Self-motivated, organized, excellent communicator, detail-oriented, strong interpersonal and project management skills, and proficient in electronic document systems such as Trackwise and/or Veeva, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and databases.

Special Working Conditions:

• Ability to gown and enter clean rooms is a requirement for this role.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.