Senior Manager, Technical Center

Company Description

About 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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

Provides direct oversight, management, and leadership for all commercial products within the site. The Manager, with minimal technical or administrative guidance, has the responsibility for all aspects of technical process support such as but not limited to project management, process monitoring and validation programs within the site. This includes leadership of in-line product support for processes, project definition and demonstration, and process improvements/productivity while assuring compliance with regulatory agencies. These activities involve economic feasibility studies toward objectives assigned or approved by site leadership. The Manager can execute activities or administratively manage a professional staff to ensure objective achievement. The manager is also responsible for development of department employees, resource loading and effectively interface with functional area leaders from other departments to deliver the department and site objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and continuous improvement support for commercial and new product introductions on day-to-day production and processing issues: problem solving, deviations, manufacturing documentation changes, etc. Source for plant consistency across the Division, share problem-solving activities, and maintain updated technical product history.
• Provide technical assistance with the implementation of changes in manufacturing equipment, batch size, ingredient supplier and experimental batches as needed. Ensure that products and processes are kept in compliance with validation requirements.
• Drive Drug Product Technology transfers to manufacturing, including the financial aspects of each project.
• Supports the commercial manufacturing of third-party products and serves as the technical contact for the customer.
• Identifies and solve technical problems independently for new products and for commercial
  operations.
• Plans data collection, organizes results and applies statistical methodology. Presents numerical information through computer readouts, graphs, charts and tables, written reports and/or other methods.
• Evaluates new process equipment and advises management about areas of opportunity in the application of novel technologies.
• Implement at plant level global technical initiatives as: new technologies, suppliers, methods, etc. and provide tactical perspectives.
• Leads team in troubleshooting and investigation activities.
• Assure fulfillments of environmental, health, and safety (EH&S) requirements and compliance obligations, promote continuous improvement, and consider EH&S aspects during the design and change process.

Qualifications

• Bachelor Degree in Pharmacy, Chemical Engineering or Natural Sciences.
• A minimum of ten (10) years with “hands on” experience in the Process Validation/Qualification areas, four of them in a managerial position or working with interdisciplinary complex projects.
• The incumbent should be proficient in project management and be able to work within a multidisciplinary group in order to bring assigned projects to completion/closure.
• Computer literate with knowledge of statistical methods, data manipulation and interpretation.
• Ability to communicate in English and Spanish (written and verbal).
• Incumbent must possess good administrative, communication and interpersonal skills, to effectively manage multiple assignments at different levels.
• Capable to adapt to changing priorities, and switch tasks based on those priorities, while maintaining excellent customer service levels.
• Capable to positively influence department employees and/or contributors from other disciplines or peers of higher managerial levels to obtain decision approvals for critical courses of action, either exception or planned.

Additional Information

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

• 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 long-term incentive programs. ​

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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