QA Specialist III, Change Control & Projects

For Current Kite Pharma Employees and Contractors: Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job. At Kite, we empower our leaders to step up, share ideas, listen, learn, and lead. We’re welcoming bright, diverse, and imaginative minds; we’re nurturing them to foster an environment of inclusion and growth where innovation is encouraged. We expect our people leaders to model that environment, and to focus on creating inclusion, developing talent, and enabling teams. Job Description We are seeking a highly effective Quality Assurance professional with demonstrated knowledge of, and experience in, end to end (bio) pharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Department Description As QA Specialist (III) Change Control & Projects, you’ll be participating in a team in which people of all backgrounds and experiences are respected, and working together and where focus on saving lives, by providing the cure for cancer, is a daily activity. You’ll be reporting to the Sr. Manager Quality Assurance Change Control & Projects Your new role In this new role you will support the team with a variety of facility, manufacturing process, test method, laboratory technique, and material changes, improvements, and innovations. Your will be responsible for ensuring that such changes and projects are executed in accordance with sound change management principles and Kite procedures. Your profile Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Pharmacy, Biotechnology, Biochemistry or equivalent. You have an extensive work experience in cGMP environments including advanced knowledge of change management principles including industry standard QMS applications. You are proficient with IT infrastructures and OT solutions such as electronic batch record platforms and/or enterprise systems and/or LIMS. Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) It is the policy of Gilead Sciences, Inc. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively "Gilead" or the "Company") to recruit select and employ the most qualified persons available for positions throughout the Company. Except if otherwise provided by applicable law, all employment actions relating to issues such as compensation, benefits, transfers, layoffs, returns from layoffs, company-sponsored training, education assistance, social and recreational programs are administered on a non-discriminatory basis (i.e. without regard to protected characteristics or prohibited grounds, which may include an individual’s gender, race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, medical condition, veteran status, and age, unless such protection is prohibited by federal, state, municipal, provincial, local or other applicable laws). Gilead also prohibits discrimination based on any other characteristics protected by applicable laws. For Current Kite Pharma Employees and Contractors: Please log onto your Internal Career Site to apply for this job. Change The World With Us Everyone at Kite is grounded by one common goal – curing cancer. Every day, we aim to establish a direct line between that purpose and our day-to-day work. We are creating Kite together, with the recognition that the best teams are built by the best people. We maintain an attitude of curiosity, and creativity with each challenge as we develop a new market for cancer therapies. We appreciate and respect one another, and most importantly, we don’t take success for granted. While we’ve come a long way to make what others viewed as impossible, possible, we know one thing is certain. Today is just the beginning.