
Principal Regulatory Compliance Specialist
- Danvers, MA
- $100,000-173,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead and manage site audit readiness activities to ensure inspection readiness at all time. Schedule and handle mock inspections as part of External Inspection Readiness activities. Provide timely information to support the inspection process, including those that maybe taking place at other sites / locations.
- Establish and implement an effective internal audit schedule for site against established internal audit procedures. Ensure adequate corrective actions for internal audits, including investigations and corrective action plans, drive timely completion of CAPA plans, perform follow-up with CAPA owners, and perform effectiveness monitoring and closure. Where appropriate, execute program(s) for training and evaluating qualifications of auditors. Note: Programs can include franchise, supply chain, sector, and/or enterprise elements.
- Drive compliance in internal audit metrics. Create reports and communicate performance against metrics to cross-functional groups. Highlight/communicate adverse trends in metrics and take risk-based action to remediate. Assure that required compliance-related events (e.g., field actions, inspections) are entered into the appropriate system.
- Responsible for the proactive identification and alerting of management of quality issues in time to resolve potential adverse effects to the customer, company image/reputation and/or the business. Provide internal audit inputs/updates to Quality System Management Reviews to allow meaningful review of their tasks.
- Participate in JJRC audits as requested. Support the creation and effective deployment of internal J&J Quality System and/or Compliance standards.
- BA/BS or equivalent is required, with 8-10 years of proven experience in medical Device.
- Excellent communication skills, able to quickly build credibility within the Compliance community, executive management, external regulators, and industry.
- Strong collaboration and influence management skills to partner effectively with Sector functions and across Operating Units.
- Balanced technical understanding of products and processes combined with outstanding business and compliance acumen.
- High tolerance for ambiguity in a complex environment.
- Ability to discern critical issues amidst broad operating unit complexity and to engage and achieve executive management support for proactive and reactive measures. Ability to make the complex clear and easily understood by others.
- Current certification of quality system auditor or lead auditor preferred.