Manager, PST Program Management

AbbVie; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Job summary

AbbVie in the North Chicago area seeks a Product Safety Team Project Manager to lead strategic safety initiatives across the product lifecycle. You will collaborate with PST Leads, drive deliverables, and influence cross-functional teams to shape safety decisions that maximize patient benefit-risk.

The role requires strong project management, excellent communication, and the ability to work in a matrix environment across therapeutic areas, regulatory requirements, and inspections readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical operations management, clinical study management, and drug development.
• Strong risk management and drug safety operations knowledge.
• Effective verbal and written communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Shape PST strategic priorities in partnership with the PST Lead and drive implementation.
• Manage multiple Product Safety Teams across Therapeutic Areas; plan and document meetings.
• Anticipate safety issues, analyze impact, and communicate perspectives to leads.
• Escalate safety issues to SRB; prepare escalations and close-out action items.
• Strengthen internal partnerships and expand external engagement channels.
• Drive timely development of PST deliverables through productive sessions.
• Support inspection/audit readiness activities and CAPAs/commitments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maximize product safety and benefit-risk.

Skills

Clinical operations mgmt

Clinical study management

Drug development

Risk management

Drug safety operations

Project management

Communication skills

Facilitation skills

Independent work

Cross-functional teamwork

Education

BA/BS/MA/MS (nursing or pharmacy, biologic/medical science, or healthcare professional preferred)

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Purpose:

This position reports into the Clinical Sciences (CS) Product Office in the CS Strategic Operations organization. The CS Product Office works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand and communicate the safety profile of our drugs to protect patients worldwide.

The Product Safety Team Project Management group (PST PM) plays a critical role in shaping and driving the strategic priorities of the PST through providing exceptional and strategic project management leadership. The PST is a high-profile, high-impact team that leads and owns safety decisions and strategy across the product lifecycle. The team partners with stakeholders across the product lifecycle to provide innovative safety-driven strategies, which will maximize product benefit-risk for patients.

Responsibilities:

• In partnership with PST Lead, shape the PST strategic priorities and drive implementation by applying strong understanding of the Therapeutic Area, regulatory requirements, signal management & project management to influence characterization of the compound/product safety & effectiveness profile. This responsibility will be accomplished through building a strong and trusted relationship with the PST Lead and core team members.


• In partnership with the PST Lead, manage multiple Product Safety Teams across multiple Therapeutic Areas. This includes meeting planning and facilitation, meeting minute documentation and post-meeting/general team management activities. Increase meeting productivity and advance decision-making effectively through the application of strong skillsets in influencing, leadership, relationship building, proactive-ness, curiosity, active engagement and developing strategic thinking.


• Proactively utilize experience and knowledge to support the PST Lead in framing safety issues and making decisions. Anticipate possible outcomes of safety issues and provide guidance to the PST Lead so that he/she can be proactively prepared. Systematically analyze the impact of safety decisions and connect the dots across other decisions, discussions, and actions. Communicate perspectives to PST Lead and collaborate with other PST PMs and the PST Lead on solutions.


• In partnership with PST Lead, manage escalation of safety issues and decisions to management and Safety Review Board (SRB). Create escalation documentation (e. g. SRB presentations) and help prepare the PST Leads for discussions. Manage the close-out of SRB action items for assigned PSTs.


• Support the PST Lead in strengthening internal partnership/influence and establishing their role as the company leader of safety issues related to their compounds/products. Identify new opportunities for the PST Lead to build relationships and present thought leadership to peers.


• Support the PST Lead in strengthening external engagement/presence by providing recommendations on channels for expanding external engagement including topic ideas for publications, conferences to present at key industry relationships to develop, etc. Support the creation of content for external engagement activities.


• Drive timely development of key PST deliverables by planning and facilitating productive working sessions to create deliverables; share perspectives; push the thinking to create robust deliverables, suggest improvements, and connect the dots.


• Support inspection /audit readiness activities. Engage in supporting PST-related inspection/audit activities and CAPAs/commitments.

Qualifications

• BA/BS/MA/MS (nursing or pharmacy, biologic/medical science, or healthcare professional preferred), with 3+ years clinical or pharmaceutical industry experience (advanced degree is preferred)


• Experience in one of the following areas is preferred: clinical operations management, clinical study management, drug development, risk management, and/or drug safety operations


• At least 3 years hands-on project management experience in leading cross-functional projects within a global company, including hands-on experience applying project management tools and templates.


• Effective verbal and written communication skills. Should be able to adapt communication style to suit different audiences.


• Effective facilitation skills. Must be able to facilitate group discussions.


• Ability to work independently, influence stakeholders, and present sound business strategies.


• Ability to demonstrate effectiveness in working in a multidisciplinary, matrix team situation.


• Ability to adapt in a quickly changing environment, ability to engage and forge relationships with team members across diverse functions to facilitate information sharing and maintain a continuous flow of information.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.


• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.


• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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