Clinical Quality Assurance Co-op (Jan 2025)

Job Description

The Future Talent Program features Cooperative (Co-op) education opportunities that last up to 6 months and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Research Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.

Our company is a global healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare. 

Our company is on a quest for cures and is committed to being the world’s premier, most research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. Today, our focus is directly fixed on this goal. Our company's Research and Development Division is a true scientific research facility of tomorrow and will take our company's leading discovery capabilities and world-class small molecule and biologics research and development (R&D) expertise to create breakthrough science that radically changes the way we approach serious diseases.

Our Research and Development Division is seeking a co-op student who will work collaboratively in a team environment to help advance Quality throughout the drug development life cycle.  Our company's Research and Development Division's QA is comprised of various teams that maintain quality focus at each critical stage of development.  This position will be assigned to Clinical Quality Assurance).   

Co-op assignments are directly dependent on the specific QA team supported.  The specific location of the position (Rahway, NJ or West Point, PA) is also based on the location of the host team.  

Clinical Quality Assurance (CQA) Co-op Opportunity:

Our Research and Development Division's Clinical Quality Assurance (CQA) team serves as an essential independent function with accountability to lead and support audits focused on a risk-based approach with the goal of driving continuous improvement and innovative audit strategies. The team’s mission is to safeguard the rights and well-being of patients, and the welfare of animals, and comply with applicable global regulatory requirements through sound processes and procedures by providing independent assurance that our company delivers high-quality data and clinical services.

The CQA team focuses on conducting investigator site audits, institutional level audits, study level audits, and due diligence investigations while also providing support to the business through various oversight activities and process improvement initiatives driving forward innovation and collaboration.

The CQA co-op position will primarily be involved in advancing CQA’s initiatives and projects. Co-op activities may include supporting innovative system solutions, such as the development/testing of dashboards and other automated outputs, to advance the Research and Development Division's Quality Management System (QMS). The Co-op may also support some of the projects identified through the Research and Development Division's Quality Forum, a cross-functional team led by the Strategic Operations (S&O) team with a focus on harmonizing quality practices across our Research and Development Division The candidate will have an opportunity to collaborate within the S&O team and across our Research and Development Division's QA, which will provide greater understanding of the role of quality assurance across the drug development continuum.  

This position is anticipated to be located at our company's West Point, PA site. 

The Co-ops in Quality Assurance (QA) will also have the opportunity to network with the QA Leadership Team, which will provide a broad perspective on quality throughout the drug development continuum. They will also: 

• Gain an understanding of the phases of drug development.  
• Gain an understanding of the importance of quality in ensuring the rights and well-being of patients and the welfare of animals; helping to meet the intent of global regulatory requirements through robust processes and procedures; and ensuring subject, company, and regulator ​​confidence and public trust in our company
• Interact with company employees who have broad experience across the pharmaceutical industry.  

We are seeking Co-op candidates at all levels with strong academic performance, communication skills, teamwork, and the ability to work in a multi-functional environment. 

This is a full-time co-op position.

Minimum Requirements:

• Candidates must be current students (sophomore, junior, or senior) enrolled in a B.S. or graduate student studying Science, Engineering, Data Analytics, IT, Public Health, Business, or a related field
• Candidates must have completed a minimum of two (2) years of study toward a bachelor’s degree prior to starting in the position. 
• Candidates must be available to work full-time for 4-6 months in 2025. 
• Candidates must have strong organizational skills 
• Candidates must have demonstrated the ability to take initiative and own deliverables 
• Candidates must have demonstrated interpersonal skills including flexibility, collaboration, and inclusion skills, and the ability to work in a team environment 
• Candidates must be a demonstrated self-starter with capability to develop innovative solutions to challenges 
• Candidates must have strong written and verbal communication skills 

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Candidates should have an interest in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, Biology, Chemistry, Health Care, Health Science, or Pharmacy  
• Candidates should have experience with or exposure to the development of Dashboards, Analytics, or other systems preferred 
• Candidates should have proficiency with Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
• Candidates should have advanced Excel, Word, PowerApps, Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign skills
• Candidates should have Project Management Skills
• Candidates should have experience with document management systems (e.g., FirstDoc, Veeva, Documentum, SharePoint)

Your role at our company is integral to helping the world meet new breakthroughs that affect generations to come, and we’re counting on your skills and inventiveness to help make meaningful contributions to global medical advancement.  At our company, we’re inventing for life.  

U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday, and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day unless business-critical tasks require an on-site presence.  This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, that this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

Other Details:

• Relocation: No relocation
• VISA Sponsorship: No
• Travel Requirements: No Travel Required
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid
• Shift: 1st - Day
• Valid Driving License: No
• Hazardous Material(s): n/a