Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Interacts frequently with internal personnel and outside representatives at various levels.
• Routinely operates as a liaison with customers and suppliers.
• Participates and presents at meetings with internal and externals representatives.
• Interaction typically concerns resolution of operational and scheduling issues.
• Responsible for managing one or more quality system elements/functions as defined in the site Quality Manual.
• Implements the quality plan in accordance with the quality objectives/goals and maintains the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Recommends staffing and other necessary resource requirements needed to achieve business goals and compliance requirements.
• Resolves project team issues with minimal oversight.
• Responsible for ensuring that functional areas of responsibility have adequate training programs for adhering to all safety requirements and business EHS goals.
• Manage the development and implementation of quality goals.
• merging leader that demonstrates strong leadership competencies.
• Decision making that has impact on work processes and outcomes, that could cause serious delays and considerable expenditure of a additional time, human recourses and funds.
• May define and implement critical parameter for design control and related systems throughout the product lines.
• May oversee the Nonconformance and Real-time data management portions of the quality System.
• May maintain effective Quality Metrics and define and execute activities to resolve decreases in performance.
• May support NPD at all stages of development process and ensure its compliance to FDA and other agencies.
• May assist R&D in validation of NPS tools.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING:

Required

• Education BA/BS Degree in Chemistry, Biology/Medical Technology or other life science  
• Minimum 5 years in a Quality role, with proven experience developing Quality Management Systems and processes in medical device/laboratory environment.
• Experience in supervisory or site QA leadership role.

Preferred

• MS Degree in Chemistry, Biology/Medical Technology or other life science
• Possess strategic perspective and be capable of synthesizing information and prior experience from multiple sources to build efficient and successful quality strategies for the organization
• Be skilled in interpreting quality requirements and to converting these into practical and pragmatic actions
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional/cross-site environment, achieving regulatory compliance though teamwork, facilitation and influence