Senior Specialist, Global QMS

Job Description

Job Description

More than one million people in the United States today are fighting blood cancer. While a traditional allogeneic stem cell transplant has been the best hope for many, the transplant itself can prove fatal or lead to serious conditions, such as graft vs. host disease. Orca Bio is a commercial-stage biotechnology company redefining the transplant process by developing next-generation cell therapies with the goal of providing significantly better survival rates with dramatically fewer risks.   With our purified, high-precision cell therapies we hope to not only replace patients' blood and immune systems with healthy ones, but also restore their lives.

The Senior Specialist, Global QMS will help implement Orca Bio’s global quality management system across all sites. This role will support and lead the internal audit program, supplier management program, and inspection readiness. This role will support the growth and expansion of the global quality program to support manufacturing of our cell therapy products. You will help establish, implement and maintain the audit program across Orca Bio sites to ensure compliance with GxP and regulatory expectations. Your role will support Orca Bios commercial readiness and ongoing clinical programs by managing and facilitating audits, resolving supplier-related quality issues and interacting with quality management teams at the site levels to ensure consistent application of quality systems across the organization.

Responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule and execute internal audits across all sites and functions in accordance with the internal audit program.
• Develop audit agenda, conduct interviews, review processes and generate audit reports.
• Support the global Quality Management Review (QMR) process, ensuring timely data collection, analysis, and reporting to senior leadership.
• Support the supplier qualification and management program, including risk assessments, supplier audits, and ongoing monitoring to ensure compliance with GxP requirements.
• Drive global inspection management activities, ensuring cross-functional and site readiness for FDA, EMA, and other health authority inspections.
• Provide oversight and guidance to site QMR administrators ensuring consistent quality system implementation across all Orca Bio sites.
• Establish and monitor global QMS key performance indicators (KPIs), oversee trending of quality metrics, and ensure data-driven insights are used to improve quality systems and performance.
• Partner with IT and business process owners to identify and implement QMS system enhancements, including defining requirements, driving prioritization and ensuring changes are validated and compliant.
• Review, approve, and provide quality oversight for validation documentation (e.g., equipment qualification, computer system validation, process validation) for global enterprise systems (e.g. MasterControl, ERP systems, Trackwise, etc.) ensuring alignment with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional and site leadership teams to drive continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring the QMS evolves in line with business needs and regulatory expectations.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or engineering discipline required; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant Quality Assurance or Quality Systems experience in a GxP-regulated environment, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership role.
• Strong knowledge of global quality regulations and standards (FDA, EMA, ICH, ISO 9001, 21 CFR Parts 210/211/820, EU GMP).
• Proven experience leading Quality Management Review, internal audit programs, supplier management processes, and validation oversight.
• Demonstrated success in establishing and trending quality performance metrics and KPIs.
• Experience supporting and/or administering electronic QMS systems and partnering with IT for system enhancements.
• Experience working in a multi-site or global quality organization strongly preferred.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across functional and site boundaries.

The anticipated annual salary range (listed above) for this job is based on prior experience in the role/industry, education, location, internal equity, and other job-related factors as permitted by law. For remote-based positions, this range may vary based on your local market. Full-time employment positions will also be eligible to receive pre-IPO equity and annual bonus, in addition to competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits, PTO, 401(k) plan, life and accidental death and disability coverage, and parental leave benefits. Other perks include subsidized daily lunches and snacks at our on-site locations.

Who we are

We are driven by a passion for science and compassion for patients. We act with urgency to ensure our treatments are one day accessible to all who need them.

We live by our core values of passion, courage, and integrity. Excellence in our work means the chance to unlock a better quality of life for our patients, and with that comes tremendous responsibility.

We innovate on a path that hasn’t been paved. We embrace an entrepreneurial spirit and take calculated risks to achieve our mission. We aren’t afraid to ask “why not” and challenge the status quo.

We maintain a start-up culture of camaraderie and leadership by example, regardless of title.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and recognize that celebrating our differences creates stronger, lasting solutions that better serve our team, our patients and their healthcare providers.

Notice to staffing firms

Orca Bio does not accept resumes from staffing agencies with which we do not have a written agreement and specific engagement for a particular opening. Our employment activities, inquiries and offers are managed through our HR/Talent team, and all candidates are presented through this channel only. We do not accept unsolicited resumes, and we rarely outsource recruitment.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.