Associate Director, Site Quality Compliance Lead

Legend Biotech is a global biotechnology company dedicated to treating, and one day curing, life-threatening diseases. Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, we are developing advanced cell therapies across a diverse array of technology platforms, including autologous and allogenic chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, T-cell receptor (TCR-T), and natural killer (NK) cell-based immunotherapy. From our three R&D sites around the world, we apply these innovative technologies to pursue the discovery of safe, efficacious and cutting-edge therapeutics for patients worldwide.

Legend Biotech entered into a global collaboration agreement with Janssen, one of the pharmaceutical companies of Johnson & Johnson, to jointly develop and commercialize ciltacabtagene autolecuel (cilta-cel). Our strategic partnership is designed to combine the strengths and expertise of both companies to advance the promise of an immunotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

Legend Biotech is seeking an Associate Director, Site Quality Compliance Lead as part of the Quality team based in Raritan, NJ.

Role Overview

The Site Quality Compliance Lead (Raritan-CARVYKTI) role is an exempt level position with responsibilities for managing/driving the regulatory compliance process within a cell therapy manufacturing facility to support both clinical and commercial requirements in a sterile GMP environment. The Site Quality Compliance Lead (Raritan-CARVYKTI) provides strategic leadership and oversight for all GxP quality compliance activities at the Raritan site. This role ensures a robust and sustainable state of compliance with global regulatory expectations, leads inspection readiness and audit management, and drives the effectiveness of key quality systems.

Operating in a highly matrixed Legend-J&J environment, the role leads through influence rather than direct authority, requiring strong interpersonal, strategic, and communication capabilities. The leader models Legend's core values-Patient First, Innovation, One Team, Results Driven, and Integrity-and core behaviors of Ownership & Commitment, Agility & Prioritization, Teamwork & Communication, and Continuous Improvement. This position represents the Raritan site on behalf of Legend Biotech in global forums, regulatory inspections, and cross-site/global quality initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

* Provide strategic direction for Raritan site quality compliance programs, ensuring alignment with global regulations, Legend Quality standards, and J&J expectations.

* Serve as Legend business process owner for quality compliance processes, driving continuous improvement and cross-site harmonization, where necessary.

* Oversee compliance health monitoring, risk assessments, and performance metrics to proactively identify and mitigate risks.

* Maintain ownership of quality compliance-aligned Legend documents including policies, SOPs, WIs, and ensure alignment with global/regulatory requirements.

* Lead Quality Planning activities (Raritan-CARVYKTI-Legend) and ensure alignment with enterprise quality objectives.

* Manage multiple compliance-related projects with agility, prioritization, and strong organizational discipline.

* Perform tasks in a manner consistent with the safety policies, quality systems, and cGMP requirements.

* Understand and apply global regulations to processes to ensure compliance.

* Drive continuous improvement.

* Have advanced computer skills to increase department's productivity, as well as broadening technical and scientific knowledge.

* Day-to-day management of resources, planning, and assigning work in a matrixed organization to meet goals and deadlines.

* Identify and manage resource needs to support growing organization and operational needs in alignment with evolving business priorities.

* Ability to manage multiple and complex projects, provide status reports, and coordinate with cross-functional departments.

* Lead Raritan site quality compliance and regulatory processes in a GMP manufacturing environment.

* Host regulatory inspections and independent audits, ensuring strong front-room/back-room coordination.

* Develop and maintain a turn-key inspection management…