Associate Director, Safety Deliverable Excellence (Hybrid) - AbbVie

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

This role is primarily responsible for driving safety deliverable excellence, and accountable to oversee timely completion and submission of safety deliverables within assigned team, assuring associated deliverable quality expectations are met. In addition, this role works as part of the Safety Deliverable Excellence Leadership Team, to develop, implement, maintain and monitor optimized processes for, and quality execution of, Safety Deliverables.

Responsibilities:

• Managerial oversight of assigned internal and external employees/resources; delegates effectively, with oversight, to empower, leverage and develop staff. Responsible for building and nurturing a culture of safety deliverable excellence.
• Contribute to, and support implementation of, Safety Deliverable Excellence vision, strategies, and objectives (deliverable quality, timeliness and efficiencies).
• Conceive, lead and/or contribute to major process improvements, system enhancements, or other projects impacting PPS Safety Deliverables. Provide execution leadership to direct reports for all initiatives related to safety deliverable excellence.
• Build strong strategic partnerships with stakeholders and leverage relationships to advance the Safety Deliverable Excellence vision and to drive consistent stakeholder understanding and application of quality principles related to safety deliverables.
• Responsible for audit and inspection preparation strategy and execution activities (related to safety deliverables). Leads and oversees responses to audit requests. Acts as a subject matter expert where required and may be interviewed during audits and inspections.
• Interpret current and emerging guidance and regulations that impact PST safety deliverables.
• Identify and drive recommended actions (where applicable) to ensure compliance with regulations.
• In collaboration with the Business Process Owner (BPO) office, create (and update as appropriate), manage, and monitor: safety deliverable processes, guidelines and templates, and compliance and performance metrics. Seeks to understand non-compliance issues and root causes and implement measures to address gaps.
• Strategic management and oversight of PST safety deliverables, as needed, including development of PST safety deliverable strategies, project plans, confirming accountabilities, driving document quality, completion of actions and escalating obstacles/risks.

Significant Work Activities

Frequent to continuous computer usage (greater or equal to 50% of the workday) is required

Qualifications:

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree (with related health science discipline preferred)
• Minimum of 3 years’ pharmaceutical industry experience or equivalent experience in a regulated industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of safety deliverable development, requirements, and associated regulations.
• Demonstrated people management experience preferred.
• Strong leadership presence. Ability to work directly with and influence senior management. Decisive yet collaborative leadership style.
• Proven ability to lead, manage and motivate others in a complex, multi-functional matrix environment preferred.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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 short-term incentive programs. ​

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

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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