AbbVie Posted June 30, 2026

Quality Assurance Manager

North Chicago, IL Full-time
Quality Manager

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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

The Quality Assurance Manager is responsible for providing quality assurance support for some or all of the following manufacturing processes:  pharmaceutical products, medical devices, cosmetics,  combination products and biologics. This role will support the strategic direction to ensure business objectives are met. Specific areas of support may include the Document Center, Device QA, Labeling, Validation, Training, Quality Intelligence, Compendia management and CAPA.  This position will also translate strategy into tactical objectives to deliver strategic plans and regulatory updates.  This position will ensure that all product, process or system related quality activities from raw material inspection through shipment of final product are in compliance with Corporate and governmental regulations.

Provides direction to staff of professionals to include hiring, setting performance expectations, performance feedback and development of staff

Directs the development of Quality policies that meet both regulatory and company requirements.

Maintains expertise on various regulations (FDA, EMA, ICH, etc.)

Provides compliance leadership to the manufacturing site.

Provides direct interface with FDA and other regulatory agencies and customers during inspections.

Perform assessments to determine compliance to processes and regulations to identify potential gaps and mitigate and implement improvements within our quality system.

Review and approve deviation investigations, driving reduction in quality events through robust CAPA

Compiles, analyzes and communicates significant quality or compliance metrics to senior management..

Establish programs to promote quality awareness and compliance

Qualifications

•Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biology, Microbiology, Engineering or other technical/ scientific area preferred.

•8+ years’ experience in quality assurance, quality oversight or relevant experience.

•Leadership of technical professionals and in leading cross-functional teams.

•Technical knowledge in as many of the following areas as possible: Quality, Regulatory, Process Sciences, Manufacturing Operations.

•Knowledge and familiarity with product, process, equipment, and facilities of pharmaceutical,  biological or device related products.

•Knowledge of QA systems and GMP compliance requirements including regulations and standards affecting device, biologics, and pharmaceutical products.

•Experience working in both team setting and independently. Works well with manager guidance while able to manage own time.

•Strong oral (with all levels of management) and written communication skills needed.

•Excellent interpersonal skills a plus.

•Can lead medium to larger sized projects with increasing level of complexity and size to deliver tactical results that support strategic initiatives.

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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.

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Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Quality
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 164 comparable Manager Quality roles across 51 biopharma companies.

164Comparable roles tracked
151Currently active
51Companies hiring similar roles
25Countries represented

Salary context

43 of 164 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.

This roleSubject $109,500/yr – $208,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Associate Specialist, Quality Control, Lab Support · Merck $65,100/yr – $102,500/yr
Peer group range $83,800 – $219,500 (median $163,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 164 comparable roles

United States72
China16
Ireland15
India14
Japan9
Singapore6

+ 19 more countries

Seniority mix

164 of 164 peers have a known seniority level

Manager115
Associate Director26
Associate23

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 164 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

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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.

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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.

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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 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.