Sr. Associate Quality Complaints
About this opportunity
Career Category
Quality
Job Description
Join Amgen's Mission to Serve Patients
If you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. At Amgen, our shared mission, to serve patients, drives all that we do. It is key to our becoming one of the world’s leading biotechnology
companies. We are global collaborators who achieve together, researching, manufacturing, and delivering ever-better products that reach over 10 million patients worldwide. It’s time for a career you can be proud of.
Sr Associate Quality Complaints
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What will you do?
Amgen is seeking a Sr Associate Quality Complaints owner and member of the Product Complaints and Surveillance team. The Product Complaints and Surveillance team owns and implements the end-to-end global complaint process and management system, ensuring appropriate business connection across Amgen. In doing so, the focus is on assuring complaint processes and systems remain fully compliant through the quality operating standards and procedures to current, emerging internal and external requirements. In addition, the team translates information from the market to drive continuous improvement.
The Sr. Associate conducts low to medium complexity complaint investigations and determines if complaint investigations require escalation for further investigation.
Evaluates and ensures triaged product complaint records comply with applicable procedures
Evaluates and owns complaint records with basic investigations
Ensures quality of complaint records
Completes assigned assessments per applicable procedures
Applies analytical skills to evaluate complex situations using multiple sources of information
Executes the complaint process per SOP requirements
Owns or manages the review/approval process flow in CDOCS of controlled documents; while adhering to format, content, and style guidelines, considering usability, and ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality according to templates and style guide
Supports management of assigned projects or project tasks to achieve agreed deliverables within time and with expected quality, including (but not limited to) proactive written / in person communication, status updates, tracker & tool maintenance
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What we expect of you?
We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. This role may require working in shifts or extended hours within the same shift.
Basic Qualifications:
Master’s degree
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Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Quality experience
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Associate’s degree and 6 years of Quality experience
OR
High school diploma / GED and 8 years of Quality experience
Fluency in verbal and written English to be able to understand & articulate technical concepts
Preferred Qualifications:
4+ years of quality and/or manufacturing experience in biotech, medical device or pharmaceutical industry
Bachelor’s Degree in a Science Field
Leadership skills
Ability to successfully manage workload to timelines
Familiarity with basic project management tools
Ability to operate in a matrixed or team environment with site, functional, and senior management leadership
Experience in driving decision making by using the DAI principles
Understanding of quality and industry requirements/expectations of a QMS
Understanding of the applicable manufacturing/testing processes (i.e., API, Drug Substance, Drug Product, Packaging, Device manufacturing processes)
Ability to negotiate a position after taking feedback from multiple sources
Demonstrated ability to lead functional teams, consistently deliver on-time, and high-quality results
Ability to translate business and stakeholder feedback and requirements into accurate and efficient processes using clear language and format
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 136 comparable Senior Quality roles across 36 biopharma companies.
Salary context
34 of 136 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 136 comparable roles
+ 15 more countries
Seniority mix
136 of 136 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 136 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.