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The Role
As a Quality Assurance Associate, you'll ensure compliance with quality standards in pharmaceutical products, evaluate drug batches, and support regulatory inspections, while working within a team and maintaining documentation in accordance with cGMP standards.
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Use Your Power for Purpose
Every day, our unwavering commitment to quality ensures the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our flexible, innovative, and customer-oriented culture is rooted in science and risk-based compliance. Whether you are engaged in development, maintenance, compliance, or research analysis, your contributions have a direct impact on patient care. By being part of our team, you help uphold a quality culture that adapts and evolves to meet the needs of patients, ensuring that every product we deliver is of the highest standard. Your role is crucial in maintaining this commitment and driving forward our mission to improve patient outcomes.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
Quality Assurance and Control
Every day, our unwavering commitment to quality ensures the delivery of safe and effective products to patients. Our flexible, innovative, and customer-oriented culture is rooted in science and risk-based compliance. Whether you are engaged in development, maintenance, compliance, or research analysis, your contributions have a direct impact on patient care. By being part of our team, you help uphold a quality culture that adapts and evolves to meet the needs of patients, ensuring that every product we deliver is of the highest standard. Your role is crucial in maintaining this commitment and driving forward our mission to improve patient outcomes.
What You Will Achieve
In this role, you will:
- Evaluate and review clinical and commercial drug batches to ensure quality.
- Ensure product and process documents meet established specifications through rigorous sampling and statistical process control.
- Identify and address deviations from manufacturing and packaging standards.
- Approve investigations and oversee change control activities to maintain compliance with configuration management policies.
- Contribute to project tasks and milestones, organizing work to meet deadlines.
- Learn and apply basic team effectiveness skills within the immediate work team.
- Make decisions within limited options to resolve basic problems under supervisor's direction.
- Ensure manufacturing and packaging records conform to Pfizer policy and cGMP standards.
- Maintain inspection readiness, support regulatory and customer inspections, and improve quality assurance systems.
- Assist manufacturing/packaging staff in real-time compliance error detection and resolution, and lead or participate in Quality Risk Management assessments.
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
- Bachelor's Degree in Sciences/ Pharmacy with Minimum 4-5 years in Pharma/ Biotech or Master's Degree in Sciences/ Pharmacy with Minimum 2 to 3 years in Pharma/ Biotech
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and Quality administered systems
- Sound knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices (part of GxP)
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment, both within one's own team and interdepartmental teams
- Effective written and oral communication skills
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
- Experience at a manufacturing site.
- Managing and writing deviations
- Experience in production batch record review, Enterprise Resource Planning system, investigation of non-conformance, root cause analysis and change control management
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent time management and multitasking abilities
- Experience using common AI tools, including generative technologies such as ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, to support problem solving and enhance
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
Quality Assurance and Control
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Sciences/Pharmacy
- Minimum 4-5 years in Pharma/Biotech or Master's Degree in Sciences/Pharmacy with Minimum 2 to 3 years in Pharma/Biotech
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and Quality administered systems
- Sound knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practices
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment
- Effective written and oral communication skills
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Pfizer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. materials describe up to 26 weeks of parental leave (including up to 12 paid non‑medical weeks), with phased return‑to‑work plus fertility, adoption, and surrogacy financial support, backup care, lactation support, and caregiver leave. These offerings indicate depth in family‑building benefits and day‑to‑day caregiver resources.
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Healthcare Strength — Core programs commonly include medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, mental‑health/EAP resources, disability insurance, preventive health programs, and free or reduced‑cost vaccinations. Voluntary Benefit Extras and wellness resources broaden coverage and access.
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Retirement Support — Career pages and postings note a 401(k) with company matching plus an additional company retirement savings contribution in some plans. Company materials also reference financial‑planning education and colleague‑directed retirement funds.
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The Company
What We Do
Our purpose ensures that patients remain at the center of all we do. We live our purpose by sourcing the best science in the world; partnering with others in the healthcare system to improve access to our medicines; using digital technologies to enhance our drug discovery and development, as well as patient outcomes; and leading the conversation to advocate for pro-innovation/pro-patient policies.
Why Work With Us
We are the inventors, the problem solvers, the big thinkers — those who surmount any hurdle to deliver breakthrough medicines to the people who are counting on them the most.
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