AbbVie Posted August 31, 2026

Clinical Operations Manager

Shanghai, Shanghai Full-time
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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

Purpose

Describe the primary goals, objectives or functions or outputs of this position.

To advance AbbVie's pipeline by striving for excellence in clinical research, turning science into medicine for our patients, and leveraging new capabilities to drive industry leading performance.

This role is accountable for building and leading high performing clinical research teams who partner with investigative sites for meaningful and effective engagements, striving to position AbbVie as the partner of choice in clinical trials.

Accountable for teams' clinical trial performance, providing strategic planning, oversight and direction of the team to ensure on time, within budget and quality delivery of clinical studies.

Establish partnership with internal stakeholders to drive insightful and impactful interactions and promote the value of the clinical research team through the contribution to the R&D portfolio success.

Responsibilities

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Responsible for the hiring, retention, performance management, mentoring, task assignment, growth, and development of their clinical research team.

Provides leadership and oversight to the clinical research team including, but not limited to:

* performs accompanied visits (on-site and off-site)

* accelerates AbbVie's priority programs through close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders

*conducts trend analysis and gap assessments to proactively identify training and developmental opportunities for assigned personnel

* addresses gaps effectively to help assigned personnel achieve country and site level KPIs and metrics.

Utilizes AbbVie systems and tools to support assigned personnel to proactively address performance and mitigate risks. Proactively identifies individual needs of their team members, removes obstacles, proposes solutions, and tailors support to enable successful, on-time monitoring and / or delivery of their assigned study activities.

Ensures adherence to applicable regulations, Good Clinical Practices (GCPs), ICH Guidelines, AbbVie Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and to quality standards in conducting clinical research.

Stay abreast of new and/or evolving local regulations, guidelines and policies.

Supports, trains, and oversees assigned personnel to ensure that they maintain audit and inspection readiness at assigned sites/studies. Prepare and follow up on site and country audits, CAPA preparation and implementation.

Accountable for resource management for assigned team, as follows:

*Utilizes reports from available systems and country/area model to accomplish

*In alignment with AbbVie research goals, priorities, an specific study timelines

* Ensure resource utilization to address business priorities and maximize team impact to delivery of the pipeline

Accountable for the budget management and payments of the assigned studies conducted by their assigned team, as applicable. Creates an inclusive environment to enable team members to reach their full potential. Helps team connect strategy to execution and promotes collaboration with stakeholders to effectively deliver pipeline.

Leads and supports the team to understand the business strategy and vision.

Drives and implements change through effective communication and management.

May participate and/or lead global/local task forces and initiatives. Responsible for activities as assigned by Line Manager. Proactively identifies opportunities at local/ global levels and proposes solutions to create efficiencies and streamline/improve processes. Partners with research sites with high levels of coordinated and impactful site engagement with KOLs, National Leads, Principal Investigators and site staff positioning AbbVie as the partner of choice in clinical trials.

May be assigned TA responsibility within an affiliate. Support training and Monitoring for team, develop and implement strategies to support Site and key opinion / National leader identification (including feasibility) to support AbbVie pipeline execution within the Country or Region. Work with affiliate teams (including Medical Affairs and Commercial brand teams where appropriate) for assigned TA's.

Qualifications

Qualifications

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Education: Bachelors or equivalent degree, health related (e.g. Medical, Scientific, Nursing, Pharmacy) preferred.

Monitoring Experience: Minimum 3 years.

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate persuasively with clarity, collaboratively, and cross functionally. Demonstrates flexibility to changing requirements with the ability to establish and leverage relationships and trusted partnerships. Demonstrated proactive and positive team player.

Exhibits strong planning and organizational skills. Experience across multiple therapeutic areas and study phases.

Mentoring and coaching skills. Has the ability to provide transparent and timely feedback to raise the bar on individual and team performance.

Drives innovation and continuous process improvement.

Acts with integrity in accordance with AbbVie code of business conduct and leadership values.

Deals comfortably with risk and ambiguity, changing course when needed.

Ability to make timely, high-quality decisions based on available data and information.

Ability to work independently and take initiative/ownership. Ability to adapt and move quickly.

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
Manager
Function
Clinical Development
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Shanghai, Shanghai
Employment type
Full-time

How this role compares

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

We currently track 313 comparable Manager Clinical Development roles across 66 biopharma companies.

313Comparable roles tracked
282Currently active
66Companies hiring similar roles
27Countries represented

Salary context

80 of 313 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 Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Associate Scientist, Clinical Immunology & Diagnostics · Pfizer $60,200/yr – $100,400/yr
Highest disclosed · Statistical Advisor · Gilead Sciences, Inc. $226,185/yr – $292,710/yr
Peer group range $80,300 – $259,448 (median $183,450)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 313 comparable roles

United States139
India56
United Kingdom20
Poland17
Germany11
China11

+ 21 more countries

Seniority mix

313 of 313 peers have a known seniority level

Manager173
Associate Director108
Associate32

Therapeutic area mix

29 of 313 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology15
Immunology7
Dermatology & Aesthetics2
Cardiovascular / CVRM1
Rare Disease1
Ophthalmology1
Neuroscience1
Respiratory1

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