Senior Manager, External Partners Oversight

Allergan; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a senior regulatory/compliance leader to oversee supplier quality and compliance across global regulations for medical devices and combination products. You will lead evaluations of external suppliers, manage Quality Agreement life cycles, and provide GXP expertise to R&D teams, ensuring quality, effectiveness, and safety of development partners.

You will collaborate cross-functionally to drive strategic initiatives, report external partner quality metrics, and balance independence

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in technical or scientific area with at least 8 years in medical device or combination product related industries

Responsibilities

• Lead supplier oversight to ensure compliance with global regulations.
• Manage Quality Agreement lifecycle and periodic reviews.
• Provide expertise on GXP requirements within R&D and collaborate across functions.
• Drive strategic initiatives to improve regulatory and quality adherence.
• Collect and report External Partners Quality metrics and trends.

Skills

Regulatory leadership

Quality assurance

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical or scientific field

ASQ CQM/CQA desirable

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

Purpose:

Primarily responsible for providing leadership and direction and performing evaluations for compliance with worldwide regulatory requirements; providing relevant and constructive evaluation of external suppliers that provide materials and services to AbbVie.

Provides leadership, direction, and execution in compliance and quality; assures that activities are performed and documented in accordance with applicable worldwide quality and regulatory requirements to assure quality, effectiveness and safety of our medical device, clinical materials, and drug development suppliers.

Responsibilities:

• Assess compliance with applicable regulations through supplier oversight activities. The strategic focus is for early detection and prevention, followed by correction of issues.
• Interpret, explain, and apply applicable current governmental regulations, guidelines, policies, and procedures as applicable to associated activities.
• Manage Quality Agreement life cycle; lead the creation of the Quality Agreement; lead the conduct of cross-functional periodic review evaluations of Quality Agreements to ensure that the Agreements remain current; withdraw/terminate Quality Agreements, as applicable.
• Provide an active role within R&D as an expert in GXP requirements.
• Collaborate with R&D functional areas and assist in the resolution of external supplier quality issues.
• Prioritize activities to ensure objectives of studies/programs are met. Maintain project oversight to include awareness of project timeliness.
• Lead or participate in technically complex and strategic cross functional projects.
• Lead or participate in strategic initiatives to improve compliance to regulatory requirements and standards.
• Achieve a difficult balance of involvement, independence, and objectivity.
• Collect, analyze, and report metrics pertaining to External Partners Quality.
• Consistently demonstrate AbbVie’s Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including a collaborative mindset and leadership. Create a learning environment, embrace the ideas of others, and manage innovation to reality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in technical or scientific area (Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biology, Microbiology, or Engineering) or equivalent industry experience (at least 8 years) with sufficient exposure to medical device or combination product related industries.
• Thorough understanding of international regulatory standards. Understanding of GxP (GMP, GLP, GCP, GDP, GCLP) and Medical Device regulations and standards preferred.
• Must have a technical background and a thorough understanding of the supplier oversight.
• Must understand a variety of quality/operational systems that support study/product design, device development and understand the principles of quality management.
• Must have excellent oral/written communications skills, interpersonal skills, leadership, tact, open mindedness, maturity, tenacity, decisiveness, self-reliance, organizational / administrative skills, and sound judgment.
• Persuasive, effective communication skills are essential with an ability to work effectively across RDQA functions, across technical areas and outside of the company.
• 8+ years of experience in function or related fields, such as Quality Assurance/Regulatory Affairs, pharmaceutical/device/healthcare industry, compliance/auditing experience (preferred) and/or laboratory experience (preferred).
• Accreditation by a professional body is desirable, e.g., American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Manager (CQM) and/or Certified Quality Auditor (CQA).

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 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 formofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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