Associate (Quality Assurance – Operations/ Compliance/ Investigations)
About this opportunity
Use Your Power for Purpose
Responsible for execution and review support of Quality Assurance (Operations/ Compliance/ Investigations) activities including document review, shop-floor QA support, deviation handling, and quality systems support to ensure compliance with cGMP and regulatory requirements .
What You Will Achieve
Roles Responsibilities
Fundamental knowledge of manufacturing and quality control processes (solution preparation, filling, sterilization, visual inspection, packaging)
Document review and Good Documentation Practices
Basic knowledge of change control and risk assessment
Knowledge of chemical and microbiology testing
Interpersonal Skills: Effective communication with all staff from different levels; builds constructive and effective relationships
Acts Decisively: Makes decisions in a timely manner based on available information
Grows Self: Identifies individual development needs and works towards achieving those objectives
Critical thinking and compliance mindset
Ability to work in cross-functional teams
Core Responsibilities:
Quality Operations
Review QC documents (BQ, CQ), batch records, and related documents
Support shop-floor QA activities including GMP compliance monitoring and process checks
Perform in-process checks and support batch documentation review
Review SOPs, specifications, STPs, and study protocols
Quality Compliance
Support audit activities, inspection readiness, and regulatory commitments
Ensure adherence to cGMP, GDP, and regulatory requirements
Support quality systems such as Change Control, CAPA tracking, and document management
Assist in data integrity and documentation control activities
Quality Investigations
Support deviation investigations and CAPA implementation
Assist in root cause analysis using investigation tools
Track investigation closure within timelines
Ensure proper documentation of investigation records
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
B. Pharm/M. Pharm/M.Sc.
Master’s Degree: 2–3 years
Bachelor’s Degree: 4–5 years
Experience in Pharma / Biotech QA, QC, or Manufacturing
Change Management process experience
Risk assessments principles and tools
Validation of manufacturing equipment’s
Drug Product Process validations
Regulatory requirements
Compendial Changes
Knowledge on Regulatory Guidelines, Good documentation practices and Good Manufacturing Practices.
Thorough understanding of 21CFR 211, Pfizer Quality Standards, site procedures and Processes
Strong Interpersonal skills
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels within the organization.
Compliance driven approach, knowledge on cGMP and regulations.
Should face national and international inspections such as USFDA, MHRA, TGA & WHO
Pfizer is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction in which it operates.
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How this role compares
Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 139 comparable Associate Quality roles across 49 biopharma companies.
Salary context
30 of 139 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 139 comparable roles
+ 17 more countries
Seniority mix
139 of 139 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 139 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.