Quality Control Manager

About the role

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, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Manages and provides strategic direction to laboratory business units consisting of one of the following disciplines: API Laboratory Operations, Finished Goods Laboratory Operations, Raw Material/In-Process Laboratory Operations, Laboratory Support Operations, Laboratory Continuous Improvement/Compliance Operations and Microbial Environmental Controls.

Responsibilities

• Manage a large team of lab supervisors and analysts.
• Is responsible to hire, lead and develop team members to ensure that the department has the appropriate talent and level of performance to meet business objectives.
• Assure training and development of subordinates.
• Assist subordinates in problem solving.
• Identify and resolve personnel issues without direct supervision.
• Assure conformance to all government and corporate regulations.
• Responsible to develop, provide, defend, persuade Corporate/Plant practices with outside organizations.
• Routinely meet with regulators (FDA & EU) and customers to ensure no interruption in business due to compliance issues.
• Directs area of responsibility to meet production objectives within planned budgets.
• Provides input to management for resources needed to construct budget, updates, and changes in financial plan.
• Manages area supplies and equipment within budgeted amounts.
• Establish and execute plans and commitments consistent to Development, Manufacturing, Customers and Business needs.
• Conceives, designs, conducts, and advanced independent scientific research activities per strategic business needs.
• Ensure research activities/projects are on track per business needs and established timeline.
• Develop, negotiate, finalize timeline and cost estimates for projects and/or service contracts to support business operations and/or external customer’s needs.
• Conceives, design, and executes projects related to the strategic needs of the business operations.
• Provide timely testing or execution of in-process, raw materials, intermediates, API, finished