Johnson & Johnson Posted October 23, 2026

Manager, Quality Clinical Risk Management

Madrid, Spain Full time
Quality Manager
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About this opportunity

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com .

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Quality

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Madrid, Spain

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a Manager, Quality Clinical Risk Management to join our R&D Quality CRM team located at a J&J office in Spring House, PA; Titusville, NJ; Raritan, NJ; Horsham, PA: High Wycombe, UK: Beerse, Belgium; Basel, Switzerland, and Madrid, Spain.

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

US- Requisition Number: R-106260

UK - Requisition Number: R-106893

Belgium - Requisition Number: R-106896

Spain- Requisition Number: R-106903

Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-106912

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

This is a position in R&D Clinical Quality. This Manager role is an independent clinical quality-risk leadership position responsible for translating risk signals into proactive mitigation, escalation, inspection/submission readiness, and quality decision support across trials and programs. The role combines hands-on risk ownership with significant cross-functional influence

With minimal direction from the RDQ Dir, Clinical Risk Management:

•Risk Management:

Actively participates all study activities, contributing to the identification and assessment of key risks in the clinical protocol/set-up and advising clinical team members on effective mitigation strategies.

• Leads regular review of risk areas in collaboration with Risk Owners, to evaluate progress of risk mitigations and risk reduction, and to identify potential new risks or additional mitigation needs (trial and/or compound, as assigned).

• Maintains CQP (Clinical Quality Plans) risk monitoring information in quality risk repository to facilitate regular progress reviews

• Independently drives quality risk monitoring reviews and coaches others on risk monitoring and mitigation reviews

• Communicates and facilitates risk updates to R&D Business Partners as part of the regular review cycle through Quality Working Groups and Governance Fora, as applicable (trial and/or compound, as assigned).

• Highlight new potential systemic risk to RDQ CRM management.

Issue Consultation, Issue Escalation, and Compliance Assessment:

Develops and ensures a consistent interpretation of issues that require quality

investigations

• Provides guidance for significant quality issues (SQI) per corporate standards and

escalates SQI to senior R&D management.

• Provides initial serious breach evaluation of quality issue that may require reporting

to Health Authorities

• In collaboration with partners in RDQ, provides advice on the development and

implementation of Corrective and Preventative Action (CAPA) Plans and

Effectiveness Checks (Self - Identified, Inspection, Audit)

Submission Support:

Pre-submission Quality Portfolio Review (QPR)

• Leads the Cross-Functional Trial Team and other key contributors in QPR content

development & follow-up Activities

• Coaches and mentors other team members on QPR for coordination and

management of activities

Inspection Readiness and Suppor t

• Drives ongoing inspection readiness activities with trial teams to develop inspection

narratives, identify and prepare sites of interest for inspection (including, preinspection

visit support), ensure availability of key documents/records and

coordinates mock inspection in collaboration with Regulatory Compliance teams.

• Provides front and back room support for Sponsor-Monitor inspections at J&J Sites

including post inspection support. Provide inspection support per contractual

agreement for third party inspections (vendors, co-development partners and

contract research organizations)

• Provides remote support for investigational site inspections including post

inspection support.

• Provides supervision and/or coaching for others on inspection support and

readiness

Consultancy

• Provides independent advice on questions related to research quality and

compliance from Business Partners in collaboration with other Quality Professionals

and Subject Matter Experts to ensure consistent interpretation of international

regulations and policy.

Post-licensing and Acquisition (L&A) / Integration:

With the guidance from the CRM L&A Team and Therapeutic Area Head or Delegate:

• Support the coordination of the quality integration of the acquiring asset or

company/partner and deliver robust documentation within the program/trial

integration plans (90-day plan) and execute assigned responsibilities per plan.

• Provide general guidance to stakeholders

• As required, provide input into Quality Agreements with (Co-)development Partners

and execute responsibilities per agreement.

• Supports and facilitates asset divestment

Other activities:

Participates in CRM, cross-RDQ J&J, cross-functional, or cross-sector working groups to develop or refine processes, tools, and systems that deliver innovative quality solutions (as a team member or workstream/project lead).

• Works with limited supervision, independently making decisions for compounds and studies

• Provides training and coaching to peers and new employees, as needed

Required Minimum Education: BA/BSc or equivalent (Scientific, medical, or related discipline)

Required Years of Related Experience: A minimum of 8 years of experience working in the healthcare industry (pharmaceutical industry, contract research organization and/or healthcare/hospital system) required

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications

• Proficiency in speaking and writing English

• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills

• Proven strong GCP quality and/or clinical trials experience

• Experience collaborating in a cross-functional team environment

• Flexibility to respond to changing business needs

• Demonstrates ability to operate in an environment of culturally diverse styles and business approaches by understanding regional and global business structures

Percentage Traveled:

Up to 10% (Primarily domestic travel with some international travel)

Preferred Related Industry Experience: Healthcare industry (pharmaceutical industry and/or

healthcare/hospital system)

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and/or Good Pharmacovigilance Practice (GPvP)

• Experience with fundamentals of clinical trial risk management

• Global clinical trial experience

• Experience working in a Quality function (Quality Management, Quality Assurance/Control and / or Compliance)

• Experience working to ICH guidelines

• Health Authority Inspection experience (FDA, EMA and other inspectorates)

• Strong Project Planning/Management skills

• Experience and/or proficiency with data analytics and/or data visualization tools (i.e., Tableau, Spotfire, or related)

• Proven ability to analyze & interpret collective data to provide insights to drive decision-making

• Experience in managing escalations and CAPA support/advisement

• Experience with Data Science and Digital Health (including Real World Evidence/Real World Disease)

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€61,800.00 - €106,260.00

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Madrid, Spain
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 322 comparable Manager Quality roles across 79 biopharma companies.

322Comparable roles tracked
293Currently active
79Companies hiring similar roles
32Countries represented

Salary context

70 of 322 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.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Associate I, Quality Control, Raw Materials · ModernaTX, Inc. $53,500/yr – $85,600/yr
Peer group range $69,550 – $201,900 (median $164,150)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 322 comparable roles

United States153
China23
Ireland18
India18
Netherlands14
Germany14

+ 26 more countries

Seniority mix

322 of 322 peers have a known seniority level

Manager209
Associate70
Associate Director43

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 322 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

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