Associate Director, Quality Auditor, GVP

Associate Director, Quality Auditor, GVP

Closing Date: 9th October 2026 (COB)

Business Introduction
At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade. Our R&D focuses on discovering and delivering vaccines and medicines, combining our understanding of the immune system with cutting-edge technology to transform people’s lives. GSK fosters a culture ambitious for patients, accountable for impact, and committed to doing the right thing, making sure that we focus our efforts on accelerating significant assets that meet patients’ needs and have the highest probability of success. We’re uniting science, technology, and talent to get ahead of disease together.
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Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced and strategic quality professional to join GSK as an Associate Director, Quality Auditor, GVP within R&D Quality and Risk Management.

The purpose of this role is to provide independent Quality Assurance across GSK R&D by delivering comprehensive global audit programmes and influencing quality and compliance strategies. This position plays a key leadership role in ensuring compliance with international pharmacovigilance regulations, GSK policies and procedures, and industry best practices. The successful candidate will define audit scope and methodology, lead complex audits, identify emerging compliance trends, drive quality improvements across the organisation, and support regulatory inspections.

This is an influential position requiring strong leadership, expert knowledge of pharmacovigilance quality systems, and the ability to partner effectively across multiple functions and geographic regions.

Responsibilities 

- Lead and deliver risk-based pharmacovigilance audits across processes, systems and third parties to assess compliance with global regulatory requirements and GSK standards.

- Develop and execute audit strategies and plans that align with organisational priorities and emerging compliance risks.

- Provide independent quality oversight by identifying compliance risks, evaluating quality systems, and recommending sustainable improvements.

- Lead discussions with senior stakeholders to communicate audit outcomes, drive effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs), and monitor their implementation and effectiveness.

- Analyse audit data, compliance trends, and quality metrics to identify systemic issues and opportunities for continuous improvement.

- Serve as a key quality partner during regulatory inspections and inspection readiness activities.

- Provide expert advice on pharmacovigilance regulatory expectations, quality risk management, and compliance practices.

- Influence and collaborate across global matrix teams to strengthen quality culture and compliance performance.

- Coach, mentor and develop auditors and business partners, sharing best practices and contributing to organisational capability building.

 

Why You?

 

Basic Qualifications

We are seeking professionals with the following required skills and qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a scientific, pharmacy, life sciences, quality-related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

- Significant experience within the pharmaceutical industry, quality assurance and/or pharmacovigilance.

- Extensive knowledge of global pharmacovigilance regulations and quality management expectations.

- Demonstrated experience planning and leading complex quality audits.

- Experience developing corrective and preventive action strategies and evaluating effectiveness.

- Strong analytical, organisational, and planning skills.

- Proven ability to work effectively across global matrix organisations.

- Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills.

- Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally (approximately 25%).

 

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

- Experience leading or coordinating regulatory authority inspections.

- Broad knowledge across multiple GxP disciplines.

- Expertise in risk-based quality management, root cause analysis and quality-by-design methodologies.

- Experience using digital technologies, AI/ML solutions and data analytics to inform quality oversight activities.

- Experience auditing complex third-party and supplier relationships.

- Professional auditing certification or equivalent formal auditor training.

- Established external network within quality, compliance or regulatory organisations.

 

Location and Working Style 

- Role based in United Kingdom or Poland.

- Home-working model.

- Regular travel to support audit execution, inspections, and stakeholder engagement activities.

- International travel expected (approximately 25%).

 

How to Apply

We welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds and experiences. If this role feels like a step forward in your career, please apply and tell us how your skills and experience match this role. We look forward to hearing from you.

Skills

Communication, Data-Driven Decision Making, Digital Fluency, Influencing Without Authority, Problem Solving, Quality by Design, Risk Analysis, Stakeholder Management

 

 

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

 

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

 

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

 

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

 

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

 

Should you require any adjustments to our process to assist you in demonstrating your strengths and capabilities contact us at UKRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com where you can also request a call.

 

Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a  Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive

 

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