Scientist II, Product Quality & Occupational Toxicologist

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking an early career toxicologist to join Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) within Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety. The role supports risk assessments across occupational, environmental, manufacturing, and product regulatory filings.

You will evaluate literature, develop health-based exposure limits, PDEs and OELs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to align safety classifications across AbbVie programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in toxicology, pharmacology, or related science.
• Master degree with 5 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical, GMP/GLP, or regulatory setting.
• Exceptional collaboration, multi-tasking, and communication skills.
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Critically evaluate literature and toxicology reports to generate risk assessments and related considerations.
• Support product quality toxicology risk assessments for non-conformances and complaints.
• Experience supporting medical devices and ISO 10993.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to align on safety classifications and implementation.
• Support hazard categorizations and chemical registrations including GHS/CLP and SDS.

Skills

Collaboration

Multitasking

Communication skills

Writing skills

Attention to detail

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor degree in toxicology or related science

Master degree in toxicology/pharmacology or related

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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,XandYouTube.

Job Description

Genetic, Environmental, and Occupational Toxicology (GEO Tox) is a diverse team of scientists with the goals of supporting patient, environmental, and employee safety. The candidate will support risk assessments for occupational, environmental, manufacturing, and product regulatory filings. The position will support programs across AbbVie’s therapeutic areas and involve a broad range of modalities across all stages from early discovery throughout development to marketed products.

We are seeking an early career toxicologist to join our team in Development Sciences, Pre-clinical Safety.

Responsibilities:

• Critically evaluate literature and toxicology reports/summaries and utilize tools such as read-across and in silico data to generate toxicology risk assessments including extractables and leachables, health-based exposure limits (HBELs) including permitted daily exposure limits (PDEs) and occupational exposure limits (OELs).
• Support product quality toxicology risk assessments to support non-conformances and product complaints.
• Experience supporting medical devices and combination products under ISO 10993.
• Successful collaboration with multi-functional teams to align on safety and compound hazard classifications banding for implementation throughout the company.
• Support occupational health (hazard) categorizations and chemical registrations, including Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals GHS/CLP, and Safety Data Sheets (SDS).

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in toxicology, pharmacology, or related science with typically seven years of experience, or Master degree with 5 years of relevant experience
• Understand relevant scientific literature and apply theoretical framework to execute tasks/projects in a timely manner
• Minimum of 3 years experience in a pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical, GMP/GLP, or other regulatory setting desired
• Exceptional collaboration, multi-tasking, and communication skills
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, comfortable with multitasking to meet project deadlines

Desired skills:

• Risk assessment authoring experience
• Toxicity data mining in relevant databases, internal, and external literature for use in compound risk assessments, classification, and labelling.
• Knowledge and/or experience with regulatory guidance, i.e., ISO, ICH, etc.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and other computer software systems

Additional Information

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

• 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 thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,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 short-term incentiveprograms.

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

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