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 . on X , Facebook , Instagram , YouTube , LinkedIn and Tik Tok .
Job Description
- Could be based in the following European locations - UK/ Germany/ Italy/ France/ Spain
- Part of the RDQA organisation
- Reporting to CQA Europe Director
Overview:
The RDQA team commitment is to drive quality excellence as a strategicadvantage across all stages of discovery and development for the lifecycle of the product to achieveproduct realization and to accelerate access to innovative therapies for our patients.
The team supports countries in Europe, Americas and Intercontinental, as defined by AbbVie. Theexpected results in the Affiliates are as follows; quality excellence, realization of R&D goals andobjectives for submission of new therapies including but not limited to adherence to One AbbVieQuality System, execution of RDQA Quality System Excellence (CAPA, Change Management, QualityRisk Management, Documentation Standards) and the assurance of integrity data. Scope includesR&D and clinical research activities conducted by Affiliates or AbbVie within the region, to achievefirst pass approvals thereby advancing the pipeline.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a close, collaborative relationship with RDQA functions impacting clinical researchwithin designated Affiliates in the assigned countries and region
- Establish collaborative-working relationship with clinical development leaders and staff within designated Affiliates to advance the AbbVie Quality System, drive quality excellence, andachieve first pass approval for market authorization by health authorities
- Oversee quality and compliance in a regulated environment including AbbVie policies andprocedures and country and regional standards and regulations
- Lead and/or collaborate on development of risk identification and risk mitigation or controlstrategies for clinical research activities including clinical trials within designated countries withperiodic reviews of quality and compliance data for the purposes of continuous improvement
- Establish quality measures with the desire to achieve RDQA quality goals
- Drive quality strategyin designated countries and region
- Manage governance/oversight that is "fit for purpose" and in relation to the One AbbVieQuality System
- Identify trends, root causes, and potential risks to mitigate and/or preventissues that impact clinical research. Drive vision of continuous state of regulatorypreparedness
- Ensure consistent understanding of the quality requirements for clinical research activitieswithin Affiliates, works closely with Affiliates R&D Management on health of Quality System
- identifies issues of quality and compliance that will impact overall goals and desired outcomes
- Maintain awareness of all applicable regulations and develop appropriate standards to measurequality in assigned countries and region relating to clinical research
- Support necessary supplier visits, audits and vendor qualifications
- Develop inspection strategy in collaboration with AREA Associate Director and relevantfunctions and provide inspection-readiness support for all local / regional Health Authorityinspections
- Provide oversight, support and follow-up (inspection report response) for local Health Authorityinspections with employees and management in assigned countries and region. Participate inHealth Authority inspections as needed
- Determine need for country/process assessments/audits in collaboration with Clinical Audit andClinical PM
- Conduct audits as required to assess compliance with regulations, guidelines, policies andprocedures and Sponsor requirements. Effectively communicate audit results, both orally andin writing
- Review and approve corrective action plans/audit responses
- Support the development of robust audit and inspection responses through coaching andeducation
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required preferably in Biology, Nursing, Pharmacy, or other medical sciencedegree or equivalent experience
- Technical experience; biopharmaceutical /medical device industry experience in quality assurance, compliance, regulatory affairs,clinical research
- Strong understanding of local and global regulatory and legal requirements and of theapproach and perspectives of regulatory agencies
- Ability to ensure strategic risk focus withevolving global regulations and expectations. Agile and able to respond rapidly to unplannedevents and changing regulatory requirements and expectations
- Thorough knowledge of quality systems, auditing standards and quality management
- Motivates and can influence others, including those over whom they have no direct authority
- Strong analytical skills with an ability to organize work in a logical, thorough & succinctmanner
- Ability to work at an experienced level, demonstrating effective leadership in interactionswith business partners at all levels
- Excellent written & oral communication skills including presentation and influencing skills
- Strong negotiation, influencing and collaborating abilities with excellent networking skills
- Ability to foster cross functional collaboration teams
- Strong team player or team lead and builds relationships with peers and cross-functionally atboth global and local levels to drive performance
- Fluent in additional languages desirable but not required
- Ability to travel as needed in AREA (up to 35%)
Additional Information
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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