Quality Program Manager
Abbott
Quality Program Manager
Abbott
Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL facility. This is not a remote role.
What You’ll Work On
The function of the Quality Program, Manager is to provide leadership, oversight, and project management covering Abbott's Quality System. This includes division / business support and quality expertise and consulting activities.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide leadership and direction for furthering the development of the Abbott-wide Inspection Readiness Program.
Act as a strategic partner for ensuring that our business locations are effective in the full life cycle of a third party inspection (preparation, execution, and response).
Provide direction and consultation for third-party inspections including the identification and review of outstanding issues, facilitating inspections, liaison training, and promoting effective and professional inspection facilitation.
Capable of assessing, and providing meaningful feedback regarding compliance status, effectiveness of management teams, and related quality and operational systems.
Provide scheduling and detailed project tasks for assigned sub-teams to ensure milestones are implemented.
Review and support creative solutions to key topics and utilize risk management principles.
Build and maintain a strategic focus on emerging regulations and their potential impact on Abbott is essential to success in this role.
Serve as a Technical Advisor, Consultant, or Subject Matter Expert including:
Technical consultant to business
Represent Abbott both internally and externally in key areas
Recognized expert (and sought after) both internally and externally
In addition, the following technical skills are preferred:
Significant interaction with executive management with accountability for assigned projects.
Candidates must have a fundamental understanding of regulatory inspections and quality systems.
Proven technical project leader with an emphasis in Inspection Management and Regulations
Required Qualifications
Bachelors Degree, 4-year degree in a technical or scientific discipline
Experience/Background: Minimum 7-10 years
Managerial/Supervisory Experience
Quality Assurance and/or Compliance and/or Analytical Laboratories and/or Manufacturing and/or Operations
Project Management
Auditing experience
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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
$129,300.00 – $258,700.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Abbott makes medical devices, diagnostic tests, nutrition products and branded generic drugs for hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and patients. Its best-known product is the FreeStyle Libre, a coin-sized sensor worn on the upper arm that tracks blood sugar around the clock without routine finger pricks. Its other lines run from heart valves, pacemakers and brain stimulators to lab analyzers, rapid tests and mail-in colon cancer screening kits, and Abbott earns money by selling these products to health systems, labs, retailers and consumers. The company was founded in 1888 by Chicago physician Wallace Abbott and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.
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