Quality Assurance Associate - Delegate Qualified Person

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Job Function:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

Quality Assurance

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Quality Assurance Associate – Delegate Qualified Person

Do you want to develop your quality expertise while helping innovative medicines reach clinical trial patients around the world? Are you a recognized Qualified Person residing in Belgium and looking to build your experience? Join our team as a Quality Assurance Associate- Delegate Qualified Person in R&DQA- Clinical Supply Quality. You will work with experienced colleagues across global clinical supply chains for synthetics, biotherapeutic molecules and advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs). From reviewing clinical batch documentation to supporting quality investigations and process improvements, your work will help enable safe, compliant and timely delivery to clinical trials.

You will build your QA and Delegate QP experience with support from experienced colleagues, taking on broader responsibilities in line with your training and authorization.

You will broaden your knowledge of products, technologies and regulations while collaborating with colleagues worldwide. Ready to bring quality closer to patients? Apply today.

What you can expect from this role

• Meaningful impact: help clinical trial materials reach patients safely and on time, supporting medicines as they progress towards commercialization. You will gain experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where adaptability and practical thinking are valued.
• Learning and development: gain hands-on exposure to different products, technologies, supply chains and worldwide regulatory expectations.
• Growing responsibility: develop your quality judgement, contribute to investigations and put improvements into practice with guidance from experienced colleagues.
• Global collaboration: work with multidisciplinary teams and external partners across Europe and the US.
• Exposure and growth: build your quality expertise, learn from colleagues and support preparation for audits and Health Authority inspections. Develop an understanding of the end-to-end product supply chain.
• Contribute fresh ideas: ask questions, identify opportunities to improve existing processes and help turn ideas into practical solutions.
• Learn in an innovative environment: explore how quality processes evolve to support new technologies and contribute to their development alongside experienced team members.

What you will do

• Connect with the right experts: work with Clinical Supply Chain teams and global quality partners, including J&J (pilot) plants, ECSQ, Quality Asset Management to gather and follow up the information needed for timely release and QP certification.
• Support quality from the start: contribute to cross-functional teams alongside experienced Clinical Supply Quality colleagues and help incorporate quality requirements into clinical trial execution.
• Support release of clinical trial materials: review batch information and perform assigned release activities within the Janssen R&D IMP license, following appropriate training and authorization. Build towards broader Delegate QP responsibilities as your experience develops, helping to keep clinical studies supplied.
• Apply quality requirements in practice: develop your understanding of GMP, GDP and clinical-trial requirements and help operational teams apply established guidance, seeking expert input when needed.
• Help resolve quality issues: support timely investigations of deviations and complaints, contribute to defining and following up CAPAs, and promptly escalate potential patient or supply risks to the appropriate quality colleagues.
• Contribute to quality systems: support selected quality-system activities, maintain accurate documentation and help implement sustainable process improvements.
• Support audit and inspection readiness: help prepare documentation and provide support during customer audits and Health Authority inspections, working alongside experienced QA colleagues.

What you bring

• Required: a university industrial pharmacist degree and qualification as EU-certified Qualified Person residing in Belgium.
• Initial experience in pharmaceutical supply chain, quality assurance or a closely related environment is an advantage. Candidates at the start of their career who meet the required QP qualification are welcome to apply.
• A willingness to learn, take responsibility for assigned activities and develop your ability to apply quality requirements to practical decisions.
• Exposure to product release, operational quality or production is an advantage; prior product-release experience is not essential.

How you will thrive

• You have a foundational understanding of pharmaceutical production and quality systems and are keen to deepen it; exposure to sterile manufacturing is an advantage.
• You are familiar with cGMP principles and willing to develop your knowledge of ICH guidelines and internal standards, applying them with guidance where needed.
• You communicate clearly, ask questions when something is unclear and build constructive working relationships across cultures and time zones.
• You organize assigned work carefully, follow through on commitments and seek support when priorities compete or issues fall outside your experience.
• You are keen to understand how your quality activities contribute to the wider clinical supply chain and reliable patient supply.
• You are curious about new technologies, open to feedback and different perspectives, and willing to learn as circumstances change.
• You approach problems methodically, gather relevant information and contribute to risk assessments and practical action plans with guidance from experienced colleagues.
  
  
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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Alignment, Business Behavior, Coaching, Compliance Management, Continuous Improvement, Data Analysis, Detail-Oriented, Goal Attainment, Human-Centered Design, Internal Controls, Issue Escalation, Problem Solving, Process Oriented, Quality Control (QC), Quality Management Systems (QMS), Quality Standards

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€60 000,00 - €96 255,00

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.