Manager, GMP Quality Assurance (CONTRACT)

You are analytical and detail oriented.  You thrive in a fast-paced collaborative environment and can manage multiple projects concurrently.  You are detail-oriented and able to review and analyze quality issues quickly in order to provide robust and timely solutions.  You are dependable and accountable for your work.  You are an excellent team player and relationship builder.

The Manager, GMP Quality Assurance (CONTRACT) will be responsible for supporting late-stage GMP QA activities and transitions through PPQ to commercial launch.  This includes overseeing master and executed batch record review and disposition of drug substances and drug products (including package and labeling). The position is also responsible for owning or supporting deviations, change controls, and CAPAs and ensuring a strong quality process for successful product commercialization.

• Support critical manufacturing and laboratory investigations, PPQ strategy development, and regulatory interactions, ensuring a strong quality process and inspection readiness.
• Lead or support preparatory work for Heath Authority inspections and actively support inspection interactions.
• Review and approve master and executed batch records, ensuring final disposition compliance with regulatory filings and internal specifications where applicable.
• Review in-process, release, and stability data.
• Disposition lots from intermediates through finished drug product.
• Supports internal and external deviations, change controls, and CAPAs to closure.
• Monitor evolving regulatory requirements and quality trends to ensure GMP Quality readiness and proactive compliance planning.
• Support Vendor Management Program, including management of vendor audit activities and the Approved Supplier List.
• Writes and implements changes to GMP Standard Operating Procedures.
• Delivers expertise and guidance to drive continuous improvement of standardized processes for managing GxP documents/records. 
• Performs the appropriate QA review/approval of SOPs, SOP-related documents, and Policies. 
• Leads and supports understanding and adoption of risk-based approaches and decision making.
• Interacts with cross-functional teams across technical operations as a QA lead or resource.
• Supports all GxP functions as needed.  

At Entrada, our passion for science, our devotion to patients and our values drives our behavior:

• Humanity - We genuinely care about patients and about one another.
• Tenacity - We are relentless and persistent in the pursuit of developing therapies for patients.
• Creativity - We are creative problem solvers.
• Collaboration - We are more than the sum of our parts.
• Curiosity - We have a growth mindset and push conventional thought and theory.

To thrive on our team, you will need to come with:

• Bachelors in a relevant scientific field and a minimum of 5+ years of QA experience in pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies. Experience can be considered in lieu of degree.
• Strong technical expertise of QA/QC and Manufacturing processes to support development and maintenance of future cGMP commercial practices.
• Proven experience contributing to Health Authority regulatory filings and successful inspection readiness and support for EMA or FDA.
• Demonstrated technical experience and success supporting clinical-to-commercial transitions in therapeutic development.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to communicate and collaborate with stakeholders outside of Quality. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JF1
• This is a long-term contract position, based remotely in the US, with the expectation of candidates coming on-site 1 day per week to the Entrada Therapeutics Headquarters located in Boston, MA.