The Senior Manager, Training Compliance provides leadership and oversight of training compliance for the Vaccines organization, ensuring colleagues, contractors, and external partners maintain compliant, accurate, and inspection ready training records. This role serves as the Vaccines training compliance subject matter expert, overseeing and designing role-based curricula, learning management (LMS/PLA) governance, on-the-job (OJT) and retraining frameworks, management of a train the trainer function, and training documentation standards, reporting to Director of Quality Records and Training Compliance.
The Senior Manager partners closely with QIDO QA, Quality, and business stakeholders to drive standardization, continuous improvement, and sustained inspection readiness.
Key Responsibilities:
Lead Vaccines training compliance strategy in alignment with Vaccines SOPs, enterprise quality systems, and GxP requirements (namely GCLP, GLP, GCP).
Defines and drives the Vaccines Train‑the‑Trainer strategy, partnering with Quality and business stakeholders to ensure qualified trainers, standardized delivery, and sustained inspection readiness.
Govern role-based curricula, job roles, training documentation, OJT, retraining, and training waivers across Vaccines.
Serve as SME for Vaccines training compliance processes, including PLA administration, curricula management, and training record archival.
Partner with Quality and business stakeholders to assess procedural changes, manage compliance impact, and implement scalable solutions.
Drive continuous improvement and standardization of Vaccines training compliance processes and tools.
Lead and develop Training Compliance staff within QRT; provide escalation support for complex compliance issues.
Monitor training compliance risks and trends; lead corrective and preventive actions as needed.
Large scale innovative projects, like adoption of electronic systems for OJT and similar manual functions.
Communicate training compliance status, risks, and expectations to Vaccines leadership and stakeholders.
Education & Experience:
Bachelor’s degree in life sciences, quality, education, technology, or related discipline and 6+ years’ experience OR MS with 5+ years’ experience
Extensive experience in training compliance or quality systems within a regulated pharma/biotech environment.
Hands-on experience with LMS platforms (e.g., PLA), role-based curricula, and training governance.
Experience supporting audits, inspections, and cross functional initiatives.
Skills & Competencies
Strong GxP training and compliance expertise
Proven people leadership and stakeholder influence
Clear, effective written and verbal communication
Analytical, risk based decision making
Ability to manage complexity and drive standardization across Vaccines
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
PHYSICAL/MENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Office based
Work Location Assignment: This is a hybrid role requiring you to live within commuting distance and work on-site an average of 2.5 days per week or more as needed.
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
Candidates must be authorized to be employed in the U.S. by any employer.
U.S. work visa sponsorship (such as TN, O-1, H-1B, etc.) is not available for this role now or in the future.
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