Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X (https://twitter.com/abbvieireland) , Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvieireland/) , YouTube LinkedIn and Tik Tok (https://www.tiktok.com/@abbvie) .

Job Description

We are now looking for a Regional QA Systems Lead to join our team on a fixed term contract, this role can be based in Ireland or connected to one of our European sites. Optimise and improve Quality Systems (QS) performance within and across Regional Operations activities. The individual leads communication planning, preparation and actions to ensure improvements are harmonized and shared across the manufacturing network and the quality system documents and IT systems are aligned accordingly.

Responsibilities

• Drive critical Quality projects across multiple sites across various countries; ensure subsystems are connected and cross-system dependencies are optimized to deliver measurable compliance performance improvements.

• Define clear governance rules to remove QS redundancy and drive global alignment of the Abbvie Quality System.

• Participation in EU QMR, and Quality Business Reviews supporting EU Regional VP with activities including trend analysis, regional quality plan execution, support of operations sites quality projects.

• Collaborate with partners (QA, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain etc.) in global and area roles across regions to drive broader network efficiency, effectiveness and alignment. Coordinate and actively manage relationships & agreements with key Third Party Manufacturers/Customers appropriate to the Region

• Develop and drive Regional specific QA focused teams to deliver measurable improvement initiatives. Develop policies, processes and procedures that harmonize the quality system across the network;

• Define and implement a Regional QA project management governance to ensure clear communication of milestones and progress of Regional projects.

• Ensure the Quality System is current, compliant and adhered to across the AbbVie manufacturing network

• Create and maintain robust linkage between QA Systems and Regulatory Intelligence/Knowledge Management resulting in no significant inspectional observations relating to Quality Systems.

• Lead the collection, verification and improvement of Quality metrics used for management review in partnership with senior leadership to develop a clear picture of overall compliance state and linking this to local / global project implementation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and 10+ years experience and proven knowledge and experience within the Quality organisation with experience working within & leading key COE projects

• Proven communicator of both tactical and strategic programs.

• Proven leadership record and strong manufacturing/plant experience ideally stemming from within Regional experience.

• Successful track record of delivering results in complex projects and programs; proven leader of direct reports as well as of matrix teams.

• Experience working and delivering results across multiple sites/geographies.

  Preferred experiences: change management, AbbVie Operations, financial planning processes.

• Ability to travel up to 35% within and across Regions, as require

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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