Senior Manager, Clinical Quality Assurance

Abb Vie GCP Quality Assurance Manager

Abb Vie'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.

Purpose:

Primarily responsible for leading the management of GCP quality activities in support of studies and projects across one or more clinical programs to drive proactive quality management, and ensure compliance with corporate policies and functional procedures and applicable global regulations.

Responsibilities:

Develop and manage project timelines and deliverables for the RDQA Comprehensive Quality Strategy plan, including a lead role in Risk and Issue Management

Assess the success and effectiveness of the quality system and assure inspection readiness by designing an audit program of internal and external compliance audits and applicable assessments

Interpret, explain and apply applicable current governmental regulations, guidelines, policies and procedures to study protocols and associated activities

Prioritize activities to ensure objectives of studies/programs are met

Interact with Development Operations organization and supporting functions to ensure quality compliance across all aspects of clinical development;
Identify and mitigate potential clinical quality risks and escalate to management;
Leverage knowledge of clinical development to maintain program oversight and influence proactive quality management through quality related activities;
Provide project/program leadership in quality as a team member across clinical development functions

Anticipate, influence, and determine present and future business needs in support of quality for a drug development program

Lead the effort to articulate and present an integrated cross-functional and comprehensive quality strategy plan

Identify and implement balanced fit-for-purpose quality management;
Develop and recommend strategies and tactics for success

Identify and remove barriers that could impact program objectives, priorities, timelines, and quality. Communicate risks and mitigations to management

Serve as the primary program quality liaison during health authority inspections

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in a physical science, life science, nursing, pharmacy or equivalent experience required

5+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience in GCP quality assurance or regulatory affairs or clinical development or clinical operations (oncology-specific a plus, but not a requirement). Prefer 1+ years of GCP QA auditing experience

Successful and progressive leadership experience in motivating teams to anticipate and deliver strong operating results, as well as to meet or exceed customer expectations.

Problem solving abilities required at both strategic and operational levels, ability to identify and resolve issues related to quality and compliance with global and local regulations, polices, and procedures. This involves both internal cross-functional problem solving as well as issue resolution between functional areas and external collaborators.

Demonstrated ability in strategic planning and cross functional execution

Proven track record utilizing core and technical competencies in managing projects in support of clinical research

Strong understanding of global Pharma, clinical development and operations, legal and regulatory environments

Experience in preparing/presenting key information

Comprehensive knowledge of the interrelationship among other RDQA GXP functions and with business functions to serve as a good business partner

Additional Information:

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range.

This range may be modified in the future.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Abb Vie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating…