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Senior Manager, External Partners Oversight

North Chicago, IL, us💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Provide leadership and direction for evaluating external suppliers to ensure compliance with worldwide regulatory requirements, quality, and safety standards for medical devices and drug development.

Role type

Senior Manager, External Partners Oversight

Builds

Quality Agreements and supplier oversight programs for medical device and drug development suppliers

Domain

Life Sciences / Pharmaceutical / Medical Device / Regulatory Compliance

Deliverable

client delivery

Required skills

Supplier oversight, GxP regulations (GMP, GLP, GCP, GDP, GCLP), Medical Device regulations, Quality management systems, Project management, Cross-functional collaboration, Metrics analysis

Preferred skills

Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs experience, Compliance/auditing, Laboratory experience, ASQ CQM/CQA certification

Technologies

Quality management systems, Regulatory databases

Responsibilities

Assess compliance with applicable regulations through supplier oversight activities; Interpret and apply governmental regulations, guidelines, policies, and procedures; Manage Quality Agreement life cycle including creation, review, and termination; Collaborate with R&D to resolve external supplier quality issues; Collect, analyze, and report metrics pertaining to External Partners Quality; Lead or participate in strategic initiatives to improve compliance to regulatory requirements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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