Senior Expert Integrated Health Quality Lead (all genders)

Eysins, Vaud, Switzerland Full time
Quality Senior
Notify me about similar jobs

Merck KGaA is the source of truth for this posting and owns the application process. We surface normalized context and market comparison you won't find on the original listing.

About this opportunity

Work Your Magic with us!

Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet. That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.

United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life. Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

Your role

Connected devices, digital therapeutics and intelligent injection systems are reshaping how patients receive treatment, and you will help make that future safe, secure and compliant. You will lead the quality and regulatory strategy for connected health products from early concept through post-market surveillance. As the quality lead for digital health and software as a medical device, you will own risk management, software quality and cybersecurity compliance across the product lifecycle. You will translate evolving technology and regulatory expectations into clear, practical processes that guide engineering, clinical operations and other cross-functional partners.

You will help close the gaps between rapid technology development and the quality and compliance requirements of the healthcare environment. Working closely with a five-member team, you will collaborate across digital health, cybersecurity, data privacy, electronic autoinjectors, manufacturing quality, clinical evaluation and post-market activities. You will support design controls, technical documentation and clinical evaluation or investigation for products intended for international markets. You will build trusted relationships with auditors, notified bodies, senior stakeholders, external partners and suppliers, influencing decisions even when you do not have direct authority. Based in Eysins, Switzerland, this role offers flexible remote work of up to two days per week. If you are motivated by innovation that keeps patients safe, you will have the opportunity to shape how connected care reaches people around the world.

Who you are

You hold an engineering degree or equivalent qualification, complemented by relevant training in medical device quality, regulatory affairs, software lifecycle processes, cybersecurity or a related discipline.

You have at least 10 years of experience in medical device quality and regulatory affairs, including connected or software-driven products.

You have strong practical knowledge of the standards and regulations governing quality management systems, risk management, software lifecycle processes, usability and post-market surveillance.

You bring hands-on expertise in medical device cybersecurity and data privacy, including threat modelling, security risk management and vulnerability handling.

You have supported design controls, technical documentation and clinical evaluation or investigation for devices placed on international markets.

You have experience with digital health applications or software as a medical device; experience with electronic drug delivery systems and manufacturing quality is an advantage.

You turn complex and changing technology or regulatory expectations into workable processes and communicate confidently with auditors, notified bodies and senior stakeholders in English.

You have experience managing external partners and suppliers, including technical agreements, supplier qualification and oversight of outsourced development and manufacturing.

You are curious about new technologies, collaborative by nature and energized by work that protects patients; experience applying artificial intelligence in healthcare or medical devices is a plus.

What we offer: We are curious minds that come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe that this variety drives excellence and innovation, strengthening our ability to lead in science and technology. We are committed to creating access and opportunities for all to develop and grow at your own pace. Join us in building a culture of inclusion and belonging that impacts millions and empowers everyone to work their magic and champion human progress!

Apply now and become a part of a team that is dedicated to Sparking Discovery and Elevating Humanity!

Job details

Seniority
Senior
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Eysins, Vaud, Switzerland
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 195 comparable Senior Quality roles across 49 biopharma companies.

195Comparable roles tracked
172Currently active
49Companies hiring similar roles
27Countries represented

Salary context

59 of 195 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 · Quality Assurance Senior Specialist - Statistical Sorting · Lilly $18/hr – $35/hr (≈ $37,482–$72,592/yr)
Peer group range $55,037 – $208,845 (median $142,155)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 195 comparable roles

United States94
India12
China12
Ireland11
Singapore7
Netherlands7

+ 21 more countries

Seniority mix

195 of 195 peers have a known seniority level

Senior129
Associate Director42
Principal24

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 195 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.

60%similar
Novartis Basel (City), Switzerland Senior
Same function Same seniority Same country
50%similar
Johnson & Johnson Allschwil, Switzerland Associate Director
Same function Adjacent seniority Same country
45%similar
AbbVie Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Senior
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Gilead Sciences, Inc. La Verne, United States Senior
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Regeneron Ireland Limerick, Ireland Senior
Same function Same seniority
45%similar
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc (USA) Renss, United States Senior
Same function Same seniority

Notify me about similar jobs

Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.

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.

60%
Senior Quality Control Specialist
Novartis · Basel (City), Switzerland · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Sr. Quality Assurance Specialist
Gilead Sciences, Inc. · La Verne, United States · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Senior QA Specialist
Regeneron Ireland · Limerick, Ireland · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
45%
Senior Specialist, Quality Systems and Compliance
BMS Netherlands Operations B.V. · Leiden – NL, Netherlands · Senior
Function Therapeutic area Seniority Country
Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 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.