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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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Purpose

The Senior Audit and Compliance Auditor provides leadership, direction and perform evaluations for compliance with US and foreign regulation requirements and provide relevant and constructive evaluation of quality related systems for AbbVie plants, affiliates, functional areas and suppliers that provide materials, services and products to AbbVie. This includes API suppliers, contract labs, excipient suppliers, commodity suppliers and third party manufacturers. Is also responsible for providing support to AbbVie plants in the resolution of regulatory issues and issues related to suppliers. Their leadership, direction and execution in the area of GMP compliance and quality assures that activities are performed and documented in accordance with AbbVie policies/procedures and applicable quality and regulatory requirements to assure the quality, effectiveness and safety of our products.

Responsibilities

• 75% Travel

• Assess compliance of systems, facilities, and procedures per applicable regulations through audits and assessments, assuring compliance to regulatory requirements and AbbVie specifications.

• Provide feedback in the form of audit observations, formulate recommendations, and review corrective actions to determine if corrective actions and commitments have been properly implemented, proven to be effective and are being maintained.

• The major responsibilities of this position are primarily focused on AbbVie facilities and key suppliers whose processes are more complex, comprehensive and critical to the business.

• Lead or participating in more technically complex and strategic projects.

• The position serves a tactical purpose for AbbVie and must achieve a difficult balance of involvement, independence and objectivity.

• Lead or participate in strategic initiatives to improve compliance to regulatory requirements and standards.

• Collaborate with internal operations on quality issues at AbbVie facilities or those related to suppliers and in the resolution of supplier exceptions to AbbVie specifications. Auditing serves to provide feedback in the form of audit observations, formulation of recommendations, review of corrective actions and to determine if corrective actions and commitments have been properly implemented, proven to be effective and are being maintained.

• The position also provides an active role within the corporation as experts in GMP requirements. The strategic focus is for early detection and prevention, followed by correction of issues.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree preferably in technical or scientific area (Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biology, Microbiology, or Engineering) or equivalent industry experience (at least 8 years) with sufficient exposure to pharmaceutical, medical device, or combination product related industries.

• Must have a technical background and requires a thorough understanding of the audit process and an extensive knowledge of worldwide requirements related to GMP regulations for quality systems and compliance.

• Must understand a variety of quality/operational systems that support facility, product design, development, production, distribution, installation, support and service and understand the principles of quality management.

• The individual must have excellent oral/written communications skills. Personal skills needed include interpersonal skills, leadership, tact, open mindedness, maturity, tenacity, decisiveness, self-reliance, organizational/administrative skills and sound judgment.

• Persuasive, effective communication skills are essential with an ability to work effectively outside of the company and across divisional and technical areas.

• 6+ years in Quality Assurance with some management experience preferred and three more years in another function in the pharmaceutical, medical device/nutritional or related industry. Four years in compliance/auditing or regulatory affairs is desirable. Total combined experience expected to be at least 10 years.

• ASQ certification desired.

Additional Information

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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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.