Senior Director, GCP Quality Assurance
Beeline Medicines
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Staff
- Salary
- $266k/yr
- Posted
- 1h ago
Skills
About this role
About Beeline Medicines
Beeline Medicines is a clinical‑stage biotechnology company focused on developing and delivering category-leading precision therapies to transform the lives of people living with autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. With a portfolio of potential best-in-class and first-in-disease therapeutic candidates that directly target key pathways governing dysregulated immunological and inflammatory responses, the Company is developing medicines that have the opportunity to provide durable, life-changing impact. Led by an established executive team and backed by world-class life science investors, each day Beeline Medicines is determined to bring the scientific rigor and operational excellence to get to what matters for patients – realizing a world where people with immune-mediated diseases can live life fully.
Job Summary
The Senior Director, GCP Quality Assurance provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for Good Clinical Practice (GCP) Quality Assurance activities supporting the company’s clinical development programs. This role is accountable for ensuring that clinical trials are conducted, documented, and reported in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, company policies, and global GCP standards while maintaining a continuous state of inspection readiness.
The Senior Director serves as a senior QA leader and strategic partner to Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Data Management, Biostatistics, and external service providers. The role is accountable for GCP quality systems, clinical quality risk management, CRO and vendor oversight, audit strategy, inspection readiness, quality metrics, and the maturation of fit-for-purpose GCP processes that embed quality by design across the clinical lifecycle.
Work Arrangement & Location
Hybrid - This position follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring a minimum of two (2) days on-site per week — currently designated as Tuesday and Wednesday. Additional on-site days may be required based on business needs, team priorities, or leadership direction.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Define, implement, and continuously mature the GCP QA strategy aligned with clinical development objectives, corporate priorities, and global regulatory expectations.
• Serve as the senior GCP QA partner to Clinical Operations and cross-functional stakeholders, providing strategic guidance on GCP compliance, clinical quality risk management, and inspection readiness.
• Champion a proactive culture of quality, compliance, patient safety, data integrity, and continuous improvement across clinical programs.
• Build, lead, mentor, and develop GCP QA capability and/or external QA resources as the function scales.
• Ensure GCP processes are phase-appropriate, risk-based, compliant, scalable, and suitable for outsourced or hybrid clinical development models.
• Lead or provide senior QA oversight for the development, review, approval, implementation, and lifecycle management of GCP-related SOPs, policies, work instructions, and training materials.
• Provide senior QA oversight for GCP activities conducted internally and by CROs, investigator sites, vendors, and other service providers.
• Serve as sponsor QA counterpart to CRO QA groups and other external partner quality functions, ensuring clear standards, escalation pathways, and issue resolution.
• Lead GCP vendor qualification, risk-based audit strategy, issue escalation, performance oversight, and ongoing vendor