Manager, Quality Assurance Document Control
Astellas

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Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com.

This position is based at our Westborough, MA site. This is an onsite position.

Purpose and Scope:

The Manager, Quality Assurance Document Control (QADC) role oversees the daily operations of the GMP QA Document Control team. This position directly supports ongoing manufacture of biological preclinical and clinical trial materials by providing timely and compliant document issuance, reconciliation, and document implementation support.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Manages and grows the QA Document Control team responsible for administration of the cGMP Documentation program. This includes document issuance / reconciliation; SOP implementation, periodic review, and obsoletion; organization and management of critical cGMP documentation in the QA file room; and oversight of Astellas's records and information management program at the AIRM location. Provides real-time document consultation to cross-functional stakeholders at an aseptic cell culture manufacturing facility.
• Collaborates closely with GMP department managers at the AIRM location to determine document needs, establish, and improve necessary document templates, and guide QADC staff to support project needs and maintain site compliance with good documentation practices and cGMP data integrity requirements.
• Partners with functional areas to conduct periodic review of existing cGMP procedures.
• Oversees the QA Document Control and GMP records and information management functions. Ensures adequate systems are in place to achieve and maintain records retention compliance pursuant to Astellas policies and regulatory requirements.
• Supplies regular metrics to management with relevant compliance insights, highlights and engages in continuous improvement opportunities.

Provides coaching, mentoring, professional development, and performance management to junior Quality Assurance staff as appropriate.

Quantitative Dimensions:

This position will regularly operate in a time-sensitive environment, with direct impact on the ability to sustain key manufacturing activities and provide value to patients in need.

Organizational Context:

Reports to the Senior Manager of Quality Assurance Operations. Directly manages training specialists and collaborates closely with both cross-functional and QA peers.