Associate Director, Global Quality and Compliance Excellence

Responsibilities

• 50-75% Travel Required - can be located anywhere in the US due to this travel requirement.
• Leads preparedness for regulatory inspections by ensuring AbbVie sites are compliant with global standards and regulations, conducting mock audits, and coaching site leadership on how to address opportunities identified.
• Coaches site leadership and employees during external regulatory inspections and audits to empower successful audit outcomes and ensure regulatory approvals are obtained.
• Develops updated audit plans, due diligence plans, inspection readiness plans, audit observations and responses, and ensures corrective actions are appropriate.
• Provides consultation, guidance, and strategic input to site and global leadership teams on initiatives that enable them to set priorities, advance quality culture, and maintain sites in an inspection-ready state while sustaining compliance.
• Ensures the delivery of all quality elements needed to facilitate new product launches, including Third Party Manufacturer's that provide products directly to distribution centers, or to AbbVie domestic and international plants for further packaging and/or testing.
• Provides technical and regulatory guidance to compliance-related events across the network (i.e. observations, significant events), a key component of AbbVie's overall compliance strategy
• Collaborates with Quality Centers of Excellence in reviewing regulatory intelligence and assessing company vulnerabilities against regulatory agency inspection findings
• Serves as a key stakeholder for cross-functional teams to ensure we as a company achieve on-time compliance and quality deliverables, high customer value, and profitable results.
• Ensures business objectives are met while maintaining compliance with local, divisional, and corporate policies as well as global external agency regulations.
• Bachelor's Degree in relevant Life Science or other technical area required. Graduate degree desired. Advanced technical and analytical expertise required for problem resolution of technical, quality, product, and/or engineering related issues.
• Experience working with third party external manufacturers preferred.
• Strong leadership background with an ability to make agile and decisive decisions.
• Strong influential skills and ability to effectively operate in a fast-paced, complex organization, apply strong analytical problem-solving skills, and demonstrate strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong quality assurance / control, manufacturing, laboratory, technical support, regulatory, and / or validation background is required
• Ability to navigate global structure with various ways of working and provide consistent leadership when faced with obstacles to provide solutions that satisfy Corporate, Divisional, regional, and local objectives.
• 50-75% travel required
• 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

Benefits

Additional Information

The Associate Director, Global Quality and Compliance Excellence uses advanced subject matter expertise of global quality standards, cGMP, and external agency regulations to lead preparedness for regulatory inspections and audits at AbbVie sites across the global network. Drives the development and maintenance of a quality culture by closely collaborating with AbbVie Manufacturing Site leadership, Quality Lab leadership, global functional groups, and Third Party Manufacturers to conduct mock audits, coach site leadership on opportunities identified, maintain roles and responsibilities, identify potential project gaps, and obtain an in-depth understanding of the quality, compliance, and resource needs at each site. Responsible for effectively providing guidance on quality concerns and preparing all global sites in the areas of small molecule pharmaceuticals, biologics, combination products, medical devices, tissue, and cosmetics for future inspections and audits.

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