AbbVie Posted July 2, 2026

Senior Manager, Product Development Quality Assurance (CMC Product Lead)

Irvine, CA Full-time
Manufacturing & CMC 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

Primarily responsible for supporting AbbVie’s pipeline, by ensuring high-quality clinical supplies that are compliant with global regulatory requirements and standards are delivered to patients. The Senior Manager, Clinical Product Supply is primarily responsible for providing direction and quality oversight of the supply chain, including manufacturing, testing and release processes from drug substance to drug product to finished product. As a team member in interdisciplinary product development teams (e.g., CMC teams), the Senior Manager is responsible for early identification and prevention of pipeline risks by driving consensus-building across AbbVie R&D functions and external partners.

Responsibilities

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Provide program oversight for the RDQA QA organization; includes timely communications on program strategies and issue management.

QA representative for CMC product development teams to facilitate the approval of drug to clinical trials according to program timelines

Lead complex global cross-functional process improvement teams.

Provide innovative and risk-based solutions to complex technical problems.

Support the preparation of regulatory inspections and internal audits, and represent Quality in inspections and audits.

Write/ review/ approve exception reports, including high impact and complex ERs impacting multi-functional areas.

Provide management of clinical supply product actions and recalls.

Support in-licensing and collaboration activities.

Ensure suitable quality agreements or quality aspects of contracts are in place between R&D and third-party manufacturers, third party laboratories, and other service providers and other sites.

Interact and influence decisions of the various R&D Directors and VP as well as external customers and mentor staff.

Qualifications

Bachelors (typically in life sciences (biology, chemistry, or engineering) and/or equivalent experience.

Master’s degree is preferred but is not required based on commensurate experience.

8+ years industry experience in Quality Assurance, production, testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, drug products, drug development or other healthcare related field; less experience considered with advanced degree.

Broad understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes (chemical and biological), analytical sciences, and worldwide -global requirements for GMP (D, EU, US) is required. Experience applicable to investigational products is preferred.

Experience in project management and ability to manage multiple priorities. Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is preferred, but not required.

Strong leadership, communication, and organizational skills.

Must be able to provide and defend the quality position, and effectively problem solve complex technical and quality issues.

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 postingbased 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 orless 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 paidand 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
Manufacturing & CMC
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Irvine, CA
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 276 comparable Manager Manufacturing & CMC roles across 50 biopharma companies.

276Comparable roles tracked
256Currently active
50Companies hiring similar roles
23Countries represented

Salary context

94 of 276 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 $124,500/yr – $236,500/yr
Lowest disclosed · Associate Operator - 2nd Shift · Mylan Technologies, Inc. $30,000/yr – $49,000/yr
Highest disclosed · Associate Director Packaging Development · Gilead Sciences, Inc. $182,070/yr – $235,620/yr
Peer group range $39,500 – $208,845 (median $168,075)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 276 comparable roles

United States171
India39
Ireland14
Singapore7
China's Mainland6
Netherlands5

+ 17 more countries

Seniority mix

276 of 276 peers have a known seniority level

Manager164
Associate68
Associate Director44

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 276 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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How we calculate "similar"

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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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