Sr Manager, Supplier Management

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

This role is based at our North Chicago, IL headquarters 3 days weekly.

Purpose:

Primarily responsible for providing leadership and direction and ensuring compliance with worldwide regulatory and AbbVie outsourcing requirements; providing relevant and constructive evaluation of external suppliers that provide materials and services to AbbVie for use in Research & Development.

Provides leadership, direction, and execution in compliance and quality; ensures that activities are performed and documented in accordance with applicable worldwide quality, regulatory and AbbVie requirements to assure quality, effectiveness and safety of our medical device, clinical materials, and drug suppliers.

Responsibilities:

• With a focus on medical device suppliers, assess compliance to applicable regulations (e.g., IVDR, MDR) through supplier oversight activities. The strategic focus is for early detection and prevention, followed by correction of issues.

• Provide an active role within R&D supplier quality as an expert in medical device requirements for external suppliers.

• Interpret, explain, and