AbbVie Posted August 19, 2026

Senior Associate Regulatory Affairs Submission Management - Hybrid

North Chicago, IL Full-time
Regulatory Affairs Senior

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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 Senior Associate, Regulatory Affairs Submission Management, manages medium to high impact, moderately complex submission projects involving multiple cross-functional regulatory submission teams. With input from the submission teams, this individual establishes and maintains submission content planners and associated timelines, facilitates tactical submission team meetings, prepares content planners for publishing, interfaces with publishing vendor, and fulfills Submission Management functions on Project Teams in support of Development, Marketing, and post-marketing regulatory authority applications. This individual is recognized as very knowledgeable in their discipline expert and in regulatory affairs submission management.

Responsibilities:

Manages medium to high impact (with respect to internal visibility, risk, complexity and criticality) submission projects to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality dossiers that meet technical specifications defined by regulatory authorities and can be easily navigated and reviewed by a regulatory agency.

Acts as RA Submissions interface with project teams providing guidance and communication of established submission processes and standards. Provides input to project scope, especially as it impacts publishing timelines and deliverables.

Plans and conducts submission team meetings. Expedites, manages, and coordinates multiple concurrent interrelated activities for submission projects and/or for multiple products in the delivery of moderately complex published submissions within the required timelines. Anticipates obstacles and develop solutions within the team.

Coordinates submission publishing with offsite publishers/provides notification to ensure all required resources are available to meet submission timelines. Prepares content planner for publishing and works with vendor to resolve publishing issues. May perform in-house publishing tasks

May be a technical Subject Matter Expert troubleshooting issues and providing technical systems support.

Facilitates the creation or procurement of submission content deliverables such as cover letters and forms.

Performs detailed quality reviews of published output to ensure compliance with Regulatory Standards and Health Authority guidances including verification of content, bookmarks, hypertext links and tables of content in moderately complex submissions. Facilitates team reviews.

Suggests and contributes to process improvements, including changes to software and business processes. May participate on internal project teams to update business software.

Demonstrates team leadership skills and ability to influence without direct authority. Builds and maintains positive relationships internally and externally.

Contributes to the development of optimal business processes and standards within the department to ensure high levels of customer support and to achieve high quality submissions.

Contributes to the creation, and implementation of internal process and standards documents relating to publishing and publishing deliverables.

Position accountability/scope: Some supervision required

Receives project assignments from manager but has responsibility for managing own projects with some oversight

Reviews project progress with manager on a regular basis with direction provided by manager

Trains, and mentors less experienced staff.

This position will work a hybrid work schedule, 3 days in office & 2 days remote, from our AbbVie North Chicago, IL headquarters.

Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

Qualifications

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree. Note: Years of experience may also compensate for lower education.

Preferred Education: PMP and RAC certificates a plus

Required Experience: Four years’ pharmaceutical or industry related experience with publishing related software tools e.g. Documentum, eCTDXPress/ISIPublisher, ISI Toolbox/DocuBridge/Insight platform, Adobe Acrobat.

Preferred Experience: Experience in Regulatory Affairs preferred but may consider QA, R&D/support, Scientific affairs, operations or related area

Experience in Regulatory Operations, including regulatory submission project management and/or submission publishing is preferred.

Proven leadership skills and presence

NOTE: Higher education may compensate for years of experience.

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 short-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
Senior
Function
Regulatory Affairs
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
North Chicago, IL
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 67 comparable Senior Regulatory Affairs roles across 31 biopharma companies.

67Comparable roles tracked
58Currently active
31Companies hiring similar roles
22Countries represented

Salary context

20 of 67 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 $78,500/yr – $141,000/yr
Peer group range $98,050 – $214,200 (median $204,500)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 67 comparable roles

United States29
Ireland6
India4
China4
Poland3
Japan2

+ 16 more countries

Seniority mix

67 of 67 peers have a known seniority level

Associate Director37
Senior29
Principal1

Therapeutic area mix

5 of 67 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology3
Dermatology & Aesthetics2

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