QA Compliance and Regulatory Director
About this opportunity
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
This role serves to provide leadership at the site Quality Operations level to support strategic initiatives, product filings, continuous improvement, and management of the site Quality System. Quality excellence is a key strategic driver to ensure regulatory standards are understood and adhered to at the site operations level. This position holder will have responsibility for oversight of the Compliance and Regulatory activities for the site and ensure successful inspection outcomes and delivery of high quality, compliant products for the patients that we serve.
Responsibilities
Oversight of Compliance and Regulatory activities at the site operations level, specifically leadership of a team responsible for a broad range of activities:
Inspection readiness and execution for regulatory agencies; Audit readiness and execution for client audits
Lead internal self-inspection program to maintain compliance with AbbVie quality requirements and global standards
Support CMC filing and response to questions; provide data and support for market expansion filings
Ownership of client quality agreements
Ownership of risk management programs
Facility related support such as pest control, engineering updates, and non-process related systems
Ownership of the site management review program
Leading and inspiring a team of individuals, providing an exceptional employee experience through clear communication, sensible goal setting, succession planning and development planning
Demonstrating and Promoting AbbVie culture and Ways of Working
Intention to be part of succession plan for Site Quality Director and open to possible opportunities in the broader AbbVie network
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree is required; preferably in Engineering, Chemistry, Microbiology or Science related field
15+ years’ experience in GMP pharmaceutical, biologics and/or medical device manufacturing; 5+ years of progressive people leading experience required
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification is preferred
Skilled in strategy development, initiation, selection, coordination and management of projects and have the ability to solve unique problems.
Advanced knowledge of cGMPs, GXP, and other regulatory standards and guidelines applicable to medical device/bio/pharmaceutical industry
Ability to manage multiple projects and work with global cross-functional teams.
Experience in facilitation, negotiation, and influencing skills. Ability to drive change.
Strong verbal and written communication skills needed; excellent interpersonal skills required
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.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 72 comparable Director Quality roles across 24 biopharma companies.
Salary context
34 of 72 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 72 comparable roles
+ 10 more countries
Seniority mix
72 of 72 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 72 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.