Design Quality, Late-Stage Development Manager

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a seasoned Quality Lead for New Product Introduction (NPI) combination products and medical devices to ensure on-time delivery while sustaining compliance with local, divisional, and corporate policies and external regulations worldwide.

Responsibilities include leading design control activities, regulatory alignment, and cross-functional collaboration to address quality issues and drive successful product launches across AbbVie plants and contract manufacturers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant Engineering, Life Science or other technical discipline or equivalent job experience required.
• 7+ years of total combined experience. At least 5 years in Operations Quality Assurance, 3 years in Operations, Research and Development or Consulting.
• Knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of combination products, medical devices and manufacturing processes.
• Understanding of regulations and standards affecting combination products and medical devices required.
• Must have leadership skills and be able to justify positions on Quality issues and standards.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary quality lead for project activities and the team members to achieve on-time quality deliverables.
• Assure proper integration and support of device regulations, drug regulations and biologics regulations.
• Perform design control activities and lead product team members through the design process.
• Ensure design control documentation and change control requirements are met.
• Identify gaps in existing processes and lead cross-functional teams for solution development.
• Guide global product development teams for Combination Products to address quality-related issues.
• Support regulatory inspections and internal audits as SME.
• Participates in development of global Product Quality Assurance strategy for device and combination products.
• Participates on New Product teams to bring products through the Design Control process.
• Makes recommendations on product quality and regulatory conformance issues for sterile and unsterile devices.
• Interfaces with audit teams to develop plans and readiness for inspections.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Regulatory Compliance

Design control

CAPA

Root cause analysis

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Life Science or related field

Job description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Company Description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

Responsible for quality of assigned New Product Introduction (NPI) combination products and medical devices to ensure business objectives are met with regards to on time delivery of product while assuring compliance to local, divisional, and corporate policies and external agency regulations worldwide. Products include infusion pumps, enteral and sub-cutaneous tubing, pump carrying accessories, and other drug administration system accessories. Products may be produced by AbbVie plants or by third-party manufacturers, in licensing relationships, or co-marketing relationships. Develops the appropriate Regulatory, Quality and Product Development strategies for NPI products in concert with Regulatory Affairs, marketing, Product Development and other cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary quality lead for project activities and the team members (within and outside of AbbVie) to achieve on-time quality deliverables, high customer value, and profitable results. Primary driver for the quality and compliance aspects of product transfers and organization optimization.
• Assure proper integration and support of device regulations, drug regulations and as appropriate, biologics regulations. Responsible for compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Perform design control activities: Mentor/lead product team members through the design process providing guidance to assure optimal approach. Work closely with research organization to ensure potential product issues are identified and addressed in the design. Assure robust product vs. customer requirements. Participate in design reviews. Ensure interfaces to drug development where appropriate.
• Ensure design control documentation (Traceability/Linkages) & design change control requirements are met. Assess the impact of a change on the safety, efficacy of the combination product/device. Analyze and justify the impact on cumulative changes.
• Identify gaps in existing processes as well as the need for new processes. Lead cross-functional teams for solution development and implementation
• Guide project development as a team member in global and local product development teams for Combination Products to proactively and appropriately address quality-related issues. Advise internal business partners with regard to medical device/combination product regulations.
• Support the preparation of regulatory inspections and internal audits and represent QA in inspections and audits as SME.
• Participates in the development of global Product Quality Assurance strategy to support device and combination products produced at AbbVie plants as well as contract manufacturing and supplier facilities. Implements agreed strategy.
• Participates on New Product teams to bring combination products and medical devices through the Design Control process to deliver on-time product launches. Contributes to Quality Assurance elements needed to facilitate new product launches including Third Party Manufacturers that provide products directly to distribution centers, or to AbbVie domestic and international plants for further packaging and/or testing.
• Makes recommendations for key decisions on product quality, compliance and regulatory conformance issues for sterile and unsterile devices and elevates medium and high-risk events to AbbVie management.
• Ensures alignment of Quality and Technical Agreements with the legal contracts and that the commitments of the quality and technical agreements are being fulfilled. Helps facilitate resolution in cases where they are not.
• Maintains relationships and open communication with suppliers, contract manufacturers, AbbVie plants, affiliates and other functional groups to maintain roles and responsibilities, identify potential projects and issues, obtain an in-depth understanding of the quality, compliance, and resource needs at each site and provide guidance on quality concerns.
• Communicates and negotiates with external companies quality organization to maintain a consistent level of quality and a level of expectation that will minimize compliance risks but also balance the cost of operating to provide AbbVie with the agreed service. Prioritizes programs, initiatives, and problem solving with consideration for impact to timelines, resources and conflicting priorities.
• Interfaces with AbbVie's audit team to develop audit plans, due diligence plans, and inspection readiness plans, review audit observations and responses, and maintain corrective action timetable. Provides support for quality audits, initial site approvals and due diligence activities. Leads and manages pre-approval inspection readiness as related to contract manufacturers to ensure regulatory approvals are obtained, with no delays to market entries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant Engineering, Life Science or other technical discipline or equivalent job experience required.
• 7+ years of total combined experience. At least 5 years in Operations Quality Assurance, 3 years in Operations, Research and Development or Consulting.
• Knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of combination products, medical devices and manufacturing processes. Experience with root cause investigations, CAPA, statistics and data analytics is a plus.
• Understanding of regulations and standards affecting combination products and medical devices required. Must have leadership skills and have been seen to take a position on Quality issues and standards and must be capable of clearly and logically justifying such positions.
• Sound technical understanding of product development (e.g. approaches for definition of requirements and specification setting for verification and validation) and/or practical experience in design control.
• Well-versed in risk management methodologies and their application.
• Able to take the initiative to identify and implement new approaches to resolve problems, able to challenge scientific arguments - strong analytical approach to identify problem areas and effective solutions.
• Work independently and in a global team environment, and with all levels of personnel within the organization.
• Possesses knowledge and a skill set to operate within an environment that requires a high degree of urgency, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, positive interpersonal skills, ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously, and capable of performing as leaders, members and individuals.

Additional Information

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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