Job Summary
We are looking for an experienced GxP Presales & Solution Consultant to support Life Sciences opportunities within the GRC practice. The role is responsible for understanding customer requirements, assessing GxP applicability, designing compliant and commercially viable solutions, supporting RFP/RFI responses, estimating GxP effort, and presenting and defending solutions with customers.
The role requires strong knowledge of GxP, Computer System Validation (CSV), Computer Software Assurance (CSA), GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11, Data Integrity and risk-based validation/qualification, combined with strong presales, stakeholder-management and customer-facing capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
. Presales & RFP Solutioning
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Analyze RFPs and RFIs to determine GxP applicability, scope, regulatory expectations and compliance requirements.
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Identify GxP requirements across applications, infrastructure, cloud, OT/shopfloor and platform environments.
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Develop GxP solution approaches, scope, assumptions, dependencies, exclusions and deliverables.
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Prepare customer clarification questions to resolve gaps in GxP scope, ownership, volumes, tools and responsibilities.
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Develop proposal responses, solution decks, operating models, transition approaches and customer-ready solution narratives.
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Participate in solution-defense sessions and customer presentations.
2. GxP Solution Architecture
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Define risk-based validation and qualification approaches aligned with GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11 and ALCOA+ principles.
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Develop lifecycle approaches covering validation planning, risk assessment, requirements, testing/qualification, traceability, release and maintenance of the validated state.
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Define GxP governance models for transformation, transition and BAU managed services.
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Establish clear ownership boundaries between customer Quality, GxP/CSV teams and technical delivery towers.
3. Effort Estimation & Commercial Support
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Develop GxP effort and FTE sizing models based on the system landscape, risk classification, document/test volumes and operational demand.
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Define onsite/offshore and L2/L3/SME resource models.
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Provide inputs for pricing and commercial discussions.
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Document assumptions and dependencies that protect the solution from undefined or unbounded GxP scope.
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Optimize solutions while maintaining regulatory and quality expectations.
4. Customer Engagement & Solution Defense
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Lead or participate in customer discovery workshops.
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Understand customer Quality Systems, validation methodologies, tools and operating model.
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Present and defend the proposed GxP solution.
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Explain complex regulatory and validation requirements in clear business language.
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Collaborate with customer QA, IT, Security, Infrastructure, Application, Cloud and OT stakeholders.
5. Internal Collaboration & Knowledge Management
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Work with Sales, Account teams, GRC leadership, delivery teams, technical towers and commercial teams to build integrated solutions.
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Coordinate technical inputs required for solution development.
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Support transition of won opportunities from presales to delivery, including knowledge transfer and handover of assumptions and commitments.
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Maintain reusable GxP proposal content, solution accelerators, estimation models, case studies and knowledge repositories.
Skill Requirements
GxP & Regulatory Knowledge
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GxP and regulated Life Sciences environments
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Computer System Validation (CSV) and Computer Software Assurance (CSA)
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GAMP 5
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FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11
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Data Integrity and ALCOA+ principles
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Risk-based validation and qualification
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Change Control, Deviation and CAPA concepts
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Periodic Review and maintenance of the validated/qualified state
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Application validation and infrastructure qualification
Presales & Consulting Skills
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RFP/RFI analysis and response
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Solution architecture and proposal development
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Customer discovery and requirement analysis
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Effort estimation and resource sizing
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Solution assumptions, dependencies and commercial inputs
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Solution presentation and defense
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Executive stakeholder communication
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Strong written and verbal communication
Other Requirements
NA