Quality Systems Leader – Senior Manager

abbott; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Free education benefits

Job summary

Abbott in Alameda, CA is seeking a Senior Manager, Quality Systems to ensure the effectiveness of the quality system and compliance with LRGS, FDA, ISO and related standards. You will implement and manage quality processes and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Lead exempt staff, manage budgets, develop policies, monitor regulatory changes, and drive continuous improvement in the Abbott Lingo division to support safe, effective medical devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 7 - 9 years related work experience.
• Provides direction and monitors progress of exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff toward departmental goals.
• Monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit.
• Monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned or related functions or groups
• Investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and staff within or across units or departments.
• Communicates the departmental vision for the organizational unit assigned.

Responsibilities

• Recruit, coach and develop organizational talent.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Create an entrepreneurial environment.
• Provide direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.
• May manage and coach a team of quality assurance employees.
• Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrate effective change leadership.
• Build strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Make decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).
• Coordinate the implementation of quality system requirements at Abbott Lingo.
• Assess proposed regulations and communicate new requirements to the organization.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Job description

Abbott in Alameda, CA is seeking a Senior Manager, Quality Systems to ensure the effectiveness of the quality system and compliance with LRGS, FDA, ISO and related standards. You will implement and manage quality processes and coordinate with cross-functional teams.

Lead exempt staff, manage budgets, develop policies, monitor regulatory changes, and drive continuous improvement in the Abbott Lingo division to support safe, effective medical devices.