Quality Assurance Manager - Biochemistry

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Quality Assurance Manager - Biochemistry

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• 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 around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Abbott Park, IL location in the Transfusion Division. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

The Quality Assurance Manager - Biochemistry is responsible for establishing and executing policies, procedures, and programs that assure Abbott products are developed, manufactured, and marketed with superior quality and conformance with all applicable laws and regulations. Provide ongoing resolution of product quality issues and push for continuous improvement and standardization of best practices across the global manufacturing network. Manage, coordinate, and support critical business quality impact issues. Execute activities in support of division and corporate quality initiatives and provide guidance in the implementation of requirements.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop, recommend, and implement major changes in quality policies and procedures.
• Lead cross-functional teams during business-critical issues. Assure quality assurance implications are eliminated and/or addressed.
• Manage a team of technicians performing bioanalytical quality operations testing.
• Problem solve and troubleshoot plant issues.
• Provides operational leadership to multifunctional teams composed of technical subject matter experts involved in the resolution of quality issues and continuous improvement of the quality system.
• Assure active, effective communications between plants and various division functions regarding quality issues.
• Leads the investigation of complex & highly technical quality issues to ensure that root/potential causes are appropriate and implement effective actions to reduce the occurrence/recurrence of the nonconformance.
• Collect and evaluate quality performance parameters. Recommend and champion improvements to raise quality performance parameters.
• Produce and analyses trend metrics and reports and establishes further actions, as may be required.

Required Qualifications

• Must have excellent judgment and decision-making abilities.
• Must have experience across a broad range of quality assurance activities including a working knowledge of plant QA functions such as analytical chemistry, incoming materials, quality systems, quality engineering, microbiology, product and process design, and regulatory compliance.
• Position also requires broad experience with interdepartmental interactions.
• Minimum of 7 years experience.
• Bachelors degree in technical or scientific discipline preferred (Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology, etc.), or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in technical or scientific discipline preferred (Biochemistry, Chemistry, etc.).
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience required including management and QA experience at the division and plant levels.

• Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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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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