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AbbViePosted 1 week ago

Senior Manager, Clinical Product Supply Quality Assurance

$124,500–$236,500 year

HybridNorth Chicago, Illinois, United States

Full TimeSenior LevelEnterprise

Job Summary

Provide strategic QA oversight for assigned clinical development programs, including quality strategy, risk management, issue escalation, and executive-level communication of program status. Serve as the senior QA representative on CMC and interdisciplinary product development teams, enabling the successful progression of investigational products into clinical trials in accordance with program timelines and global regulatory expectations. Establish and defend risk-based quality positions for complex technical, manufacturing, analytical, supply, and compliance matters, providing clear recommendations to senior R&D leadership and cross-functional governance bodies. Lead the identification, assessment, and mitigation of quality and supply risks across the product lifecycle, including risks associated with drug substance, drug product, analytical testing, manufacturing, packaging, release, distribution, and clinical supply continuity. Provide QA leadership for internal and external integration activities, including in-licensing, collaborations, acquisitions, and onboarding of third-party manufacturers, laboratories, and service providers. Lead or oversee quality assessments supporting due diligence activities. Evaluate the reasonableness, completeness, quality, compliance, and sustainability of proposed plans, assumptions, controls, timelines, remediation commitments, and risk mitigations. Translate due diligence findings into actionable recommendations, including identification of material quality risks, potential value leakage, integration dependencies, required remediation, and decision points for executive leadership. Collaborate with partners to ensure appropriate quality agreements are established and maintained with third-party manufacturers, testing laboratories, service providers, development partners, and internal sites. Lead complex, global, cross-functional process improvement initiatives that strengthen clinical supply quality, operational effectiveness, compliance, inspection readiness, and organizational consistency. Provide oversight and direction for complex investigations, exception reports, deviations, and product quality actions, including high-impact issues affecting multiple functions, sites, products, or clinical programs. Provide QA oversight for clinical supply product actions, including recalls or other market and patient-impacting actions, ensuring timely, coordinated, and compliant execution. Support regulatory inspection and internal audit readiness and represent Quality during inspections, audits, partner assessments, and other regulatory or governance

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, chemistry, biology, engineering, pharmaceutical sciences, or a related discipline
  • 8+ years industry experience in Quality Assurance, production, testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, drug products, drug development or other healthcare related field
  • Demonstrated experience in pharmaceutical development, clinical product supply, quality assurance, GMP manufacturing, analytical testing, or related healthcare environments
  • Broad understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing and testing processes, including chemical and biological products, investigational products, drug substance, drug product, and finished product
  • Experience supporting due diligence, in-licensing, collaborations, mergers and acquisitions, technology transfers, or post-transaction integration
  • In-depth knowledge of applicable global GMP requirements and regulatory expectations, including those of the United States and European Union
  • Quality experience leading complex, cross-functional development programs and external partnerships
  • Project Management Professional certification or equivalent formal project leadership experience
  • Demonstrated ability to assess complex risks, challenge assumptions constructively, and determine whether proposed quality strategies, controls, timelines, and remediation plans include robust quality and patient safety plans
  • Strong experience with issue management, investigations, exception reports, OOS/OOT, quality agreements, inspection readiness, audits, and product actions/recalls
  • Proven ability to lead through influence, build consensus, and communicate effectively with senior leadership, cross-functional leaders, external partners, and global stakeholders
  • Strong strategic thinking, judgment, problem-solving, project management, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment
  • Must be able to lift 50 lbs

Desired Qualifications

  • Master's degree is preferred but is not required based on commensurate experience

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