Corcept Therapeutics

Director, Quality Control

Corcept Therapeutics$215K — $253K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • B.S. in relevant scientific discipline; advanced degree in Analytical Chemistry preferred
  • 10+ years of Quality Control experience in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Strong expertise in stability study design and execution
  • Proven experience in managing stability programs for late-stage development
  • Experience managing analytical testing in outsourced environments
  • Proficient in statistical tools for data trend analysis
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead the QC function for stability program oversight
  • Ensure compliance and data integrity in external stability studies
  • Maintain and analyze stability data, addressing any adverse trends
  • Collaborate with vendors and internal teams on out-of-trend results
  • Provide timely stability study progress summaries to project teams
  • Oversee documentation for retest periods and shelf-life extension
  • Support regulatory submission preparation by authoring stability sections

Benefits

  • Collaboration with experienced professionals in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Opportunity to lead and shape the QC function
  • Involvement in regulatory submission processes
  • Opportunity for professional growth and development
  • Contribution to innovative treatment solutions for patients with unmet medical needs
Full Job Description
The position will provide strategic and organizational leadership for the Quality Control function supporting Corcept's development and commercial programs. This position will have end-to-end oversight of all stability programs at contract laboratories and will author the stability sections of regulatory filings. This position will partner closely with the Sr Director of Analytical Development & Quality Control (ADQC) to continuously strengthen, expand, and scale the QC function, with increasing responsibility across broader QC activities.

Responsibilities:
  • Lead the QC function with primary responsibility for the design, execution, and oversight of stability programs
  • Oversee stability studies conducted at external laboratories, ensuring compliance, data integrity, and timely execution
  • Review, trend, and maintain stability data. Alert the project team of any adverse trending
  • Collaborate with vendors and internal cross-functional teams to ensure that out-of-trend and out-of-specification results are addressed promptly
  • Provide stability study progress summaries to project teams and ensure that stability reports are completed promptly
  • Oversee internal documentation to support retest periods and shelf-life extension based on data generated from ongoing stability studies
  • Support analytical project leads in preparation of batch analysis; author and review stability sections required for regulatory submissions
  • Support analytical project leads in reviewing method validation protocols, reports, analytical method and test data
  • Manage data review qualifications of contract laboratories
  • Partner with the Sr Director of ADQC to build and enhance QC capabilities, infrastructure, and processes, with the expectation to progressively expand scope into broader QC oversight

Preferred Skills, Qualifications or Technical Proficiencies:
  • Strong technical expertise in stability study design, execution, and interpretation
  • Proven experience managing stability programs supporting late-stage development and global regulatory submissions
  • Experience in managing analytical testing in an outsourced environment
  • Experience in using statistical tools for data trend analysis and projection of drug substance retest period or drug product shelf-life
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with proven ability to work effectively with other functional groups

Preferred Education and Experience:
  • S. in relevant scientific discipline. Advanced degree in Analytical Chemistry or other relevant disciplines
  • 10+ years QC experience in the pharmaceutical industry

The pay range that the Company reasonably expects to pay for this headquarters-based position is $215,300-$253,200; the pay ultimately offered may vary based on legitimate considerations, including geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and education.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Corcept appreciates the commitment and hard work of all our team members as we strive to discover and develop novel treatments for patients with serious unmet medical needs.

Please visit our website at: https://www.corcept.com/

Corcept will not conduct interviews via text message or messaging platforms and will not ask you to download anything as part of your interview. Though we use third-party tools to help with advertising our jobs, please be vigilant in checking that the communication is in fact coming from Corcept.

About Corcept Therapeutics

Corcept Therapeutics is a commercial-stage pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic, oncologic and psychiatric disorders. The company's lead product, Korlym, is a cortisol receptor blocker that modulates the effects of cortisol, a hormone produced by the adrenal gland. Korlym is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome who have type 2 diabetes or glucose intolerance. The company is also developing other cortisol modulators, including CORT125134, which is in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of patients with Cushing's syndrome and solid-tumor cancers. Corcept Therapeutics was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.
Learn more about Corcept Therapeutics
Size
238 employees
Market Cap
$2.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$106 million
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+35.1%
Revenue
$353.8 million
NASDAQ

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