AbbVie Posted September 22, 2026

Senior Manager, Safety, Medical & Regulatory Quality - Hybrid

Waltham, MA 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

AbbVie is dedicated to delivering a consistent stream of innovative, safe, and effective quality

medicines and products that solve serious health issues and have a remarkable impact on people’s

lives. As a quality organization in research & development, R&D Quality Assurance (RDQA) is

committed to driving quality excellence across all stages of discovery and development for the

product’s lifecycle to achieve product realization and accelerate access to innovative therapies and

products for our patients.

Patient needs, stakeholder demands, industry innovation, regulatory landscape, and AbbVie’s evolved

business strategy are complex, rapid pace, and dynamic. Emphasizing and embedding quality in the

execution of clinical trials, post market vigilance and post market studies, assures patient safety,

maintains data integrity, fosters regulatory compliance, and contributes to the overall success of

drug/device development programs.

Senior Manager, Safety, Medical & Regulatory Quality contributes to the management of a RDQA

global Safety, Regulatory Affairs (RA) or Medical Affairs (MA) QA team which provides independent

quality oversight of safety activities executed by AbbVie’s R&D and non-R&D business functions,

covering the AbbVie drug, device and cosmetic portfolio. The role contributes to quality excellence

through successful business partner collaboration and provides expert technical quality support and

consultation to R&D colleagues and business partners. May support Regulatory Agency inspections.

The role reports to the Director Safety, Medical & Regulatory Quality. There is an expectation that in

performance, leadership, and behaviors (AbbVie's Ways We Work), they serve as a role model to the

organization at large.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a state of continuous compliance with global regulations, AbbVie policies and

procedures and regulatory preparedness for relevant Regulatory Authority Inspections and

pharmacovigilance and safety inspections and deliver business results while positioning

AbbVie for future success

• Consistently demonstrate AbbVie’s Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including a

collaborative mindset and people leadership manage innovation to reality.

• Fulfil expectations and goals to ensure organizational success. Embody a culture of open and

honest communication where all are encouraged to express their views, offer suggestions

and experiment for improvement.

• Support and execute a holistic quality assurance model for applicable GxP activities, inclusive

of internal and vendor performed activities and ensure integration with interfacing GxPs and

cross functional alignment. Support the delivery of innovative quality strategies and solutions through influence and collaboration with business partners to support effective and timely solutions/responses to

compliance issues/questions including audit/inspection findings impacting safety, RA and

MA.

• Determine and evaluate risks impacting compliance with GxP requirements and proposing

suitable mitigations.

• Support business process owners directly to ensure quality is integrated at all stages of

process development.

• Actively participate in front and/or back-room Regulatory Authority inspection activities to

enable successful inspections with safety, RA and MA topics in scope.

• Is recognized as a partner for consultation regarding worldwide safety, regulations and

corporate policies, especially for CAPA and associated Quality disciplines.

• Generate, analyze and report metrics to demonstrate key aspects of compliance status,

escalating issues in a timely manner for earliest resolution and ensuring the value of QA is

recognized and acknowledged

• Contribute to the development and implementation of systems and processes required to

support implementation of global QA strategies. Contribute with applicable RDQA business

functions to provide support, input and consultation to ensure an inclusive and effective

RDQA audit program.

• Drive necessary change and efficiency through the provision of effective feedback and

recommendations; persists in pursuing and achieving organizational goals and objectives.

• Create an impact by modeling the AbbVie Behaviors in a consistent and visible manner in the

conduct of all responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferably in Biology, Nursing, Pharmacy, or other science-based degree.

• 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in the fields of pharmacovigilance,

regulatory affairs and/or quality assurance supporting those areas.

• 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to organize work in a logical, thorough, and succinct

manner. Ability to work and interact with RDQA business partners and external partners.

• Extensive knowledge of quality standards, worldwide regulatory requirements and industry

best practices relating to safety, RA or MA.

• Flexibility to adapt to changing assignments and ability to effectively prioritize with minimal

supervision. Ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure and changing environment in an

autonomous manner.

• Project management, interpersonal, and communication skills with ability to influence.

• Comfortable working independently or as part of a team.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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
Waltham, MA
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 243 comparable Manager Quality roles across 71 biopharma companies.

243Comparable roles tracked
227Currently active
71Companies hiring similar roles
32Countries represented

Salary context

66 of 243 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 Quality Control Chemist (Laboratory) - 2nd Shift · Merck KGaA $27/hr – $46/hr (≈ $56,160–$95,680/yr)
Peer group range $75,920 – $208,845 (median $167,375)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 243 comparable roles

United States106
China24
Ireland13
Netherlands11
Germany10
India9

+ 26 more countries

Seniority mix

243 of 243 peers have a known seniority level

Manager160
Associate Director45
Associate38

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 243 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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