{"id":4272712,"url":"https://alion.io/job/curia-quality-program-manager","title":"Quality Program Manager","company":{"id":2070902,"name":"Curia","domain":"curiaglobal.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/curiaglobal","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":18,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.5,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":56,"computed_at":"2026-11-12T10:38:37Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Albuquerque, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CAPA","optional":false},{"name":"GMP","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-13T17:41:17Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-13","last_verified_at":"2026-11-13T18:22:54Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Quality Program Manager, NPI in Albuquerque, NM\nBuild your future at Curia, where our work has the power to save lives\nCuria is a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) with over 30 years of experience partnering with pharmaceutical and biotech companies to provide life-saving treatments to patients. At Curia, we are on a mission to advance our customers’ therapies from curiosity to cure and ultimately to improve patients’ lives.\nWe proudly offer\nGenerous benefit options (eligible first day of employment)\nPaid training, vacation and holidays (vacation accrual begins on first day of employment)\nCareer advancement opportunities\nEducation reimbursement\n401K program with matching contributions\nLearning platform\nAnd more!\nThe Quality Program Manager serves as the primary customer-facing Quality representative for assigned client programs at Curia's Albuquerque sterile manufacturing facility. Acting as the Quality counterpart to Project Management, this role provides strategic oversight and coordination of quality activities associated with New Product Introduction (NPI), technology transfer, process validation, commercialization, and lifecycle management of sterile pharmaceutical products.\nThe position serves as the primary liaison between customers and the Quality organization, ensuring customer expectations, regulatory requirements, quality agreements, and site quality systems are effectively integrated throughout the product lifecycle. The role works closely with Project Management, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Technical Services, Validation, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, and Engineering to identify and mitigate quality and compliance risks while supporting successful execution of customer programs.\nThis position requires extensive experience in sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing, strong customer relationship management skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams in a complex CDMO environment.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nCustomer Quality Relationship Management\nServe as the primary Quality point of contact for assigned customer programs.\nDevelop and maintain strong working relationships with Customer Quality, Technical Operations, Regulatory and Supply Chain representatives.\nPartner with Project Management in customer governance meetings, project reviews and escalation discussions to provide quality perspective, compliance guidance and risk assessments.\nLead customer discussions involving quality systems, investigations, change controls, validation activities, product quality concerns and regulatory compliance matters.\nEnsure customer notification requirements are fulfilled in accordance with Quality Agreements and regulatory expectations.\nSupport customer audits, site visits, due diligence assessments and quality-related business discussions.\nNew Product Introduction and Technology Transfer\nProvide Quality oversight and strategic guidance for New Product Introduction (NPI), technology transfer, and commercialization activities.\nParticipate in project planning activities to ensure appropriate quality support and risk management strategies are established.\nCoordinate quality deliverables required to support product transfers, process validation, analytical method transfers, cleaning validation and commercial launch activities.\nAssess quality and compliance risks associated with new products, manufacturing processes, facilities, equipment and analytical methods.\nProvide Quality input into transfer assessments, validation strategies and product control strategies.\nEnsure quality requirements are appropriately incorporated into project execution plans and timelines.\nQuality Systems Coordination\nCoordinate quality support activities impacting assigned customer programs, including:\n- Deviations and investigations\n- Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPAs)\n- Change controls\n- Risk assessments\n- Product impact assessments\n- Validation activities\n- Customer notifications\n- Product complaints\n- Annual Product Reviews / Product Quality Reviews\n- Regulatory commitments\nFacilitate cross-functional discussions to ensure timely resolution of quality issues and customer concerns.\nMonitor quality system performance and communicate issues that may impact project milestones, product quality, regulatory compliance or customer commitments.\nCompliance and Regulatory Support\nProvide guidance on applicable FDA, EMA, Health Canada, ICH, and global cGMP requirements related to sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing.\nSupport regulatory inspections, customer audits and remediation activities related to assigned programs.\nEvaluate quality and compliance risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.\nEnsure activities supporting customer programs are conducted in accordance with internal procedures, regulatory requirements and approved Quality Agreements.\nCross Functional Program Support\nAct as the Quality counterpart to PMO, ensuring quality activities remain aligned with overall program objectives and timelines.\nCollaborate with Manufacturing, QC, Validation, Technical Services, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, Engineering and Project Management to support successful program execution.\nEscalate quality risks, compliance concerns and resource constraints that may impact project deliverables.\nProvide leadership and coordination during issue resolution activities involving quality-related customer concerns.\nContinuous Improvement\nIdentify opportunities to improve NPI processes, technology transfer activities, customer-facing quality systems and cross-functional collaboration.\nDrive standardization and best practices for Quality support of customer programs.\nSupport development and reporting of quality performance metrics associated with customer projects and new product introductions.\nRead/interpret SOPs to ensure compliance\nMaintain up to date trainings\nOther duties as assigned\nEducation & Experience:\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree in chemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences or related scientific discipline.\nMinimum 10-15 years of experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology or CDMO industry.\nMinimum 8 years of Quality Assurance experience supporting sterile pharmaceutical manufacturing.\nDemonstrated experience supporting New Product Introduction, technology transfer, validation and commercialization programs.\nExperience serving as a customer-facing Quality representative within a GMP-regulated environment.\nStrong knowledge of aseptic processing, sterile manufacturing, quality systems and global regulatory requirements.\nExperience supporting sterile injectable products through clinical and commercial lifecycle stages.\nWorking knowledge of aseptic processing, contamination control strategies, process validation, cleaning validation, environmental monitoring and microbiological controls.\nExperience supporting technology transfers, process performance qualification (PPQ), and New Product Introduction (NPI) programs.\nFamiliarity with FDA, EMA, Health Canada, MHRA, and ICH expectations applicable to sterile drug product manufacturing.\nPreferred\nAdvanced degree in a scientific or engineering discipline.\nPrior experience in a sterile injectable CDMO environment.\nExperience supporting FDA, EMA and Health Canada inspections.\nPMP, ASQ, RAC or equivalent professional certification.\nSupervisory Responsibilities:\nThis position does not have direct personnel management responsibility; however, the incumbent is expected to provide leadership and coordination across cross-functional teams supporting customer programs, New Product Introduction (NPI), technology transfer, validation and commercial manufacturing activities. The position may provide mentoring, guidance and technical direction to Quality personnel and project team members.\nOther Skills and Abilities:\nFosters a collaborative and positive work environment\nChampions change\nPromotes a safe and healthy work environment by actively identifying and addressing potential hazards, following established safety protocols, participating in safety training programs, and fostering a culture of awareness and responsibility among team members.\nDemonstrates strong attention to detail\nAbility to analyze complex technical, quality, operational and project-related information and apply risk-based decision-making principles. Ability to interpret quality metrics, statistical trending, validation data, process performance data and compliance information to identify risks and support business decisions.\nOther Qualifications:\nMust pass a background check\nMust pass a drug screen\nMay be required to pass Occupational Health Screening\nEducation, experience, location and tenure may be considered along with internal equity when job offers are extended.\nWe do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Curia, in any form without a valid, signed search agreement by an authorized signatory in place for the specific position, approved by Talent Acquisition, will be deemed the sole property of Curia. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Curia because of the unsolicited referral.\nAll interested applicants must apply online. Please be aware of scammers. Curia will only send offer letters and requests for sensitive personal information from a curiaglobal.com email address. Curia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. 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