Stryker Corporation

Senior Staff Clinical Quality Associate (Onsite)

Stryker Corporation$115K — $238K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • 7+ years in clinical quality, research, or compliance.
  • 5+ years of experience with audits and inspections.
  • Experience in regulated healthcare or life sciences environment.
  • Background supporting clinical studies in compliance settings.

Responsibilities

  • Manage clinical quality and compliance programs with timelines and plans.
  • Identify and communicate compliance risks to various stakeholders.
  • Lead internal and external audits and regulatory inspections.
  • Conduct vendor audits and ensure supplier compliance.
  • Analyze deviations and determine corrective actions to maintain regulatory compliance.
  • Develop and revise standard operating procedures and quality documentation.
  • Deliver compliance training and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

  • Hybrid or onsite work flexibility.
  • Strong emphasis on continuous improvement within the organization.
  • Opportunities to participate in global regulatory inspections.
  • Diverse collaboration across clinical and business functions.
Full Job Description
Work Flexibility: Hybrid or Onsite

As the Senior Staff Clinical Quality Associate, you will focus on clinical quality, compliance governance, and regulatory readiness across global clinical research activities. You will provide oversight of quality systems, compliance programs, audits, inspections, and clinical processes to ensure clinical services, documentation, and operations align with applicable regulations and quality standards. You will work across functions to identify risks, strengthen controls, and support the continuous improvement of clinical quality programs.

This role provides quality and compliance oversight for clinical research activities, ensuring processes, documentation, systems, and vendor operations remain compliant, inspection-ready, and aligned with global regulatory and quality requirements.

What you will do
  • Manage clinical quality and compliance programs, establishing milestones, resource plans, and delivery timelines to support on-time execution
  • Identify, assess, and communicate compliance risks and control strategies to stakeholders across clinical, quality, and business functions
  • Lead internal and external audit and inspection activities, including preparation, execution, follow-up actions, and documentation management
  • Participate in regulatory inspections, including inspections of clinical studies conducted by regulatory authorities
  • Conduct vendor audits and inspections, maintain audit schedules, and monitor supplier compliance with quality requirements
  • Analyze process deviations, determine corrective actions, and update procedures to maintain compliance with applicable regulations and standards
  • Develop, maintain, and revise standard operating procedures, work instructions, and quality documentation
  • Deliver compliance training, provide guidance on clinical quality requirements, and support continuous improvement initiatives across the clinical organization


What you need

Required
  • Bachelor's degree
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in clinical quality, clinical research, quality assurance, compliance, or a related regulated healthcare or life sciences field
  • Minimum 5 years of experience supporting quality systems, regulatory compliance programs, audits, or inspections
  • Experience supporting clinical studies conducted within a regulated environment


Preferred
  • Experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or clinical research industries
  • Experience participating in regulatory inspections and audit readiness activities
  • Experience developing and maintaining standard operating procedures and quality system documentation
  • Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Regulatory Affairs Certification (RAC), or comparable quality or compliance certification


  • US5: $115,600 - $192,600 USD Annual
  • US30: $143,100 - $238,400 USD Annual


Travel Percentage: 30%

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Stryker Networks is a premier Information Technology partner providing IT managed services and database application development.

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Learn more about Stryker Corporation
Size
46,000 employees
Market Cap
$91.9 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.5 billion
Founded
2004
5 Year Trend
+8.6%
Revenue
$14.3 billion
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