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AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

QC Associate Director

Regulatory & Quality (Life Sciences)Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeWuxi, Jiangsu, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree or higher in Pharmacy, Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline is required.
  • Substantial experience in a pharmaceutical quality control laboratory and strong knowledge of good manufacturing practices, good laboratory practices, data integrity, and major global pharmacopoeias are required.
  • Experience in analytical method transfer and validation or verification is required.
  • Strong analytical science expertise, structured problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and risk-management capability are required.
  • The ability to define user requirements, evaluate technical solutions, and manage validation, integration, and lifecycle risks is required.
  • The ability to develop credible business cases for technology opportunities, with measurable quality, capacity, productivity, and cost benefits, is required.
  • Strong project leadership, stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills in a matrix organization are required.
  • Functional mastery of written and spoken English and strong digital literacy and learning agility are required.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and continuously improve good manufacturing practices and good laboratory practices compliance in analytical laboratory operations.
  • Provide analytical subject matter expertise for complex troubleshooting, deviations, out-of-specification and out-of-trend investigations, corrective and preventive actions, and technical risk assessments.
  • Support regulatory inspections, self-inspections, and audits, including preparation of technical responses and remediation actions.
  • Assess analytical regulatory changes and pharmacopeial updates and translate them into practical site implementation plans.
  • Lead quality control workstreams for new product introduction, site transfer, and repurposing projects, ensuring clear scope, resource, equipment, method, stability, and timeline assumptions.
  • Own or coordinate analytical method transfer, verification or validation, equipment qualification, and laboratory readiness for drug product, active pharmaceutical ingredient, excipients, cleaning validation, and stability testing.
  • Perform early technical and capacity assessments, identify critical dependencies and risks, and establish integrated plans with sending units and cross-functional project teams.
  • Provide analytical input to chemistry, manufacturing, and controls dossiers, change controls, specifications, comparability strategies, launch readiness, and post-transfer lifecycle management.
  • Identify and prioritize high-value artificial intelligence, digital, and automation use cases aligned with laboratory capacity, quality, safety, and productivity needs.
  • Lead or support deployment of automated sample preparation and testing, robotic workstations, laboratory orchestration, autonomous mobile robot-enabled material flow, laboratory information management system and LabX integration, and artificial intelligence-assisted data analytics.
  • Translate business needs into user requirements, process maps, data and integration requirements, validation strategy, acceptance criteria, and benefit tracking.
  • Partner with quality assurance, information technology, engineering, vendors, and global technical teams to ensure solutions meet good practice, data integrity, cybersecurity, computer system validation or computer software assurance, and lifecycle management requirements.
  • Drive adoption, standard work, knowledge transfer, and sustainable use of deployed solutions; monitor performance and continuously optimize workflows.
  • Provide technical oversight for analytical instruments and laboratory systems, including selection, qualification, maintenance strategy, and lifecycle planning.
  • Lead major technical changes and projects with clear governance, decision gates, deliverables, owners, dependencies, risks, and milestones.
  • Develop resource and investment estimates for technical projects and support capital expenditure and operating expenditure business cases and benefit realization.
  • Complete other projects or tasks based on business needs.
  • Promote a safety-first culture and ensure compliance with safety, health, and environmental policies, standards, and local legislation.
  • Proactively identify safety, health, and environmental risks in laboratory processes and technology deployment and implement appropriate controls.
  • Apply safer methods and technologies to reduce manual handling, ergonomic exposure, chemical exposure, and waste.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience successfully delivering new product introduction or site transfer is preferred.
  • Practical experience delivering laboratory digitalization, artificial intelligence, or automation projects in a regulated environment is preferred.
  • Experience with laboratory systems and automation platforms such as laboratory information management systems, chromatography data systems, LabX, robotics, automated sample preparation, or data analytics is desirable.

About the Company

AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

AstraZeneca develops and markets prescription medicines and vaccines worldwide, with a focus on oncology, cardiovascular/metabolic, respiratory, and infectious diseases. Its products work by targeting specific biological pathways or cells, using small-molecule therapies, biologics, and vaccines to treat diseases or prevent infections. It differentiates itself through its dual heritage from Sweden and the UK, a broad pipeline, and strong R&D and collaborations that move from discovery to patient access. Its goal is to improve people’s health by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded
1913

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