Aseptic Product Quality Manager

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About Abb Vie
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. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

The Aseptic Product Quality Manager acts as a quality SME for aseptic manufacturing within the External Product Quality Assurance Eye Care Global Team. The position is responsible for supporting aseptic events within the Eye Care Quality Assurance Third Party Manufactures (TPM) team by providing hands‑on assessments and investigation support. The Global Quality Manager will drive implementation and aseptic best practices at TPM based on Abb Vie’s standards and technological advancements.

The Global Quality Manager will work effectively with TPM by promoting improvements that proactively identify, quantify, prioritize, and mitigate aseptic risks. The Global Quality Manager will also establish collaborative relationships with Abb Vie’s internal sites, aseptic global team, and cross‑functional teams.

• Maintain the primary quality lead with management oversight for project activities and the team members (within and outside of Abb Vie) to achieve on‑time quality deliverables, high customer value, and profitable results. Primary driver for the quality and compliance aspects of product transfers and organization optimization.
• Provide Eye Care Quality Assurance Third Party Manufactures team support for investigation for aseptic events by providing hands‑on assessments and investigation support.
• Drive implementation and aseptic best practices at TPM based on Abb Vie’s standards and technological advancements.
• Perform final quality release of manufactured product lots for products and/or product lines prepared by Third Party Manufacturers.
• Make recommendations for key decisions on product quality and compliance and regulatory conformance issues for sterile, biological, liquid, solids, and/or device products and elevate medium and high risk events to Abb Vie management. Ensure alignment of Quality and Technical Agreements with legal contracts and that the commitments of the quality and technical agreements are being fulfilled.
• Establish and maintain relationships and open communication with Third Party Manufacturers, Abb Vie plants, affiliates, and other functional groups to maintain roles and responsibilities, identify potential projects and issues, obtain an in‑depth understanding of the quality, compliance, and resource needs at each site, and provide guidance on quality concerns.
• Communicate and negotiate with external companies’ quality organization to maintain a consistent level of quality and a level of expectation that will minimize compliance risks but also balance the cost of operating to provide Abb Vie with the agreed service. Prioritize programs, initiatives, and problem solving with consideration for impact to timelines, resources, and conflicting priorities.
• Interface with Quality Assurance audit team to develop audit plans, due diligence plans, and inspection readiness plans; review audit observations and responses; maintain corrective action timetable. Provide support for quality audits, initial site approvals, and due diligence activities. Lead and manage pre‑approval inspection readiness as related to the third‑party manufacturers to ensure regulatory approvals are obtained, with no delays to market entries.
• Contribute to Quality Assurance elements needed to facilitate new product launches including Third Party Manufacturers that provide products directly to distribution centers, or to Abb Vie domestic and international plants for further packaging and/or testing. Coordinate activities to support follow‑up on compliant trend investigations for non‑medical and medical (adverse events). Support the management of exception documents and Corrective and Preventive…