Associate Director, Clinical Quality Assurance

About the role:

At BioNTech, the Associate Director Clinical QA Compliance role is a unique opportunity to contribute to ground-breaking advancements in medicine by ensuring the quality and integrity of our clinical development activities. Based within a dynamic team, and collaborating across functional areas, this position plays a critical role in safeguarding compliance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) standards, regulatory requirements, and internal quality principles while advancing innovative therapies.

In this role, you will actively implement a proactive, risk-based quality strategy across assigned clinical trials, driving inspection readiness and quality governance. Through strategic collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including CROs and clinical vendors, you will ensure risks are detected, remediated, and quality issues effectively managed.

This position is ideal for a seasoned quality assurance professional with 5-8+ years of GCP-regulated environment experience and 3-5+ years in QA, as well as a proven track record of inspection management. If you’re ready to lead with transparency, mentorship, and a commitment to excellence, join BioNTech in driving the future of medicine and making a lasting impact on patients' lives worldwide.

Your contribution:

The Associate Director Clinical QA Compliance supports and oversees the proactive and risk-based Quality Strategy implementation in the clinical development activities, including, but not limited to the below:

1) within the assigned clinical trials, and with the support of the supervising manager:

• Ensures that a proactive, risk-based Quality Strategy is established and implemented for trials assigned


• Collaborates with key internal stakeholders to ensure that
  1) clinical trial risks are detected and remediated and
  2) deviations / quality issues identified are adequately investigated, including identification of root causes and implementation of robust Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs) and Effectiveness Checks


• Is an active member of the Clinical Trial Teams (and Core Teams, as required), including through participating in meetings, reviewing clinical trial relevant documentation and providing guidance to day-to-day questions arising from clinical trial deliverables


• Maintains a state of inspection readiness/quality dashboard that outlines key quality aspects (e.g. issues, risks, audit findings, CAPAs, etc.) in relation to the key milestones.


• As required, interacts with external partners, including CROs, to ensure adequate quality oversight of clinical activities


• Participates in the set up and management of strategic and pro-active risked based quality oversight on the clinical trial process to ensure continuous inspection readiness and compliance with Regulatory Authorities requirements and GCP, internal standards and adherence to patients' safety, rights and wellbeing.


• Supports the GDO functions as well as other QA groups, as necessary, for GCP Health Authorities inspections preparation / facilitation / follow-up activities.


• Oversees ongoing inspection readiness activities to develop inspection narratives, identifies and prepares sites of interest for inspection (including pre-inspection visit support), ensures availability of key documents/records and coordinates mock inspection with applicable teams.


• May lead back-room support for Sponsor-monitor inspections.  May provide remotes support as applicable for investigational site inspections


• Collaborates on the creation and implementation of Quality Agreements with CROs and clinical vendors, as required. Ensures that the executed Quality Agreement requirements are complied with along with vendor compliance management team, by BioNTech external partners supporting GCP activities


• Supports implementation and oversight of appropriate and relevant Quality metrics and presents during relevant meetings to applicable stakeholders

2) at an organizational level:

• Contributes to a culture of quality in BioNTech Global Development Organization to positively impact the business and implement the overall strategy and vision of the Quality Organization


• Collaborates with key stakeholders to execute the company & department strategy, follow proactive and risk-based quality approaches, leverage Quality by Design principles, and provides QA & GCP expertise and guidance to achieve company objectives.


• Mentors Clinical QA Compliance team members, while continuously upholding the principles of transparency, speak up, and proactivity


• As required, supports/contributes to the continuous improvement initiatives (including workstreams) within BioNTech and ensures that areas identified as weaknesses are properly addressed and executed for sustainability.


• Authors (as delegated) / supports authoring and review of procedural documents covering clinical quality aspects

A good match:

Education

• University degree in life sciences

Experience

• Minimum of 5-8 (five to eight) years of experience in a Good Clinical Practice (GCP)-regulated environment


• Minimum of 3-5 (three to five) years in a Quality Assurance (QA) position


• Inspection management experience preferred

Expected Pay Range: $163000/year to $200000/year + benefits, annual bonus & equity (bonus and equity is variable and dependent on company and individual performance).  *Compensation for the role will depend on several factors, including responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.