AbbVie
Associate Director, Change Management
North Chicago, IL, United States · Director
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About the role
- The Associate Director, Quality Change Management is the strategic leader for R&D Quality Change Management within AbbVie's Global Quality Systems team.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and continuously improve quality systems, standards, practices, and supporting tools, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory and industry expectations.
- Establish and maintain robust governance structures for QCM, ensuring changes are consistently identified, assessed, approved, implemented, communicated, and monitored in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements.
- Lead and mentor a global network of QCM subject matter experts (SMEs) and practitioners, fostering an enterprise-wide culture of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and best practice adoption.
- Act as the primary consultant and advisor to internal R&D stakeholders, providing QCM guidance, regulatory updates, issue resolution, and process implementation support.
- Define, monitor, and report on key quality and risk metrics, using data-driven insights to inform leadership, drive continuous improvement, and ensure accountability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in a scientific discipline, life sciences, engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum of 8 years' experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry (or 5+ years with an MS/PhD), with relevant focus in quality change management.
- Proven leadership experience in matrixed, cross-functional environments, with demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority.
- Extensive hands-on experience in Quality Change Management (QCM), covering multiple domains such as Clinical Operations, Pharmacovigilance, pre-Clinical, or Manufacturing.
- Deep knowledge of global regulatory frameworks, inspection readiness, compliance standards, and QCM methodologies
- Strong change agility, with a track record of effectively leading organizations through ambiguity and transformation while balancing competing priorities.
Benefits
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- Ensure organization-wide inspection readiness; represent the company during Health Authority inspections, including responding to and defending QCM practices and policies.
- 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.
Company info
- 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.
- 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.
Equal opportunity
- Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
- US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
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