Company Description
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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
The QC Section Manager is responsible for driving laboratory operations by coordinating testing activities to support the lab schedule execution with different areas such as Supply Chain, Engineering, Quality, Production, Validation, Purchasing, etc. Drive material allocation for lab testing. Responsible for collecting and organizing data required for reports such as inventory analysis, lab performance, material requirements, etc.
Responsibilities
Plan and coordinate the testing and release of lab samples, project requests, in-process, raw materials and validation activities, purchase of inventory, equipment maintenance and calibration performance.
Evaluate any variables to identify and communicate the impact on the existing plan and incorporate in future laboratory plans.
Ensure short range laboratory planning and scheduling, testing vs. capacity studies, backlog, delivery commitments
Manage coordination with the Production and Supply Chain Department to gain agreements on the activities needed to support production schedule execution, and finished goods timely delivery.
Responsible for Inventory control monitoring, distress inventory and justification of proper inventory levels in the laboratory to minimize lab materials inventory dollars.
Responsible for measuring people performance against the testing schedule to deliver the information to the supervisors to improve people's performance.
Manage customer and TPL communications regarding shipment dates, and testing status and ensure the samples tested outside AbbVie QC laboratory are on target.
Coordinate implementation and enhancements to the lab planning tools.
Accountable for on-time delivery of materials for testing, and for the release of lab dates to customers.
Interfaces with Site Purchasing and Supply Chain to ensure timely delivery of Purchased Materials to avoid testing delays.
Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Sciences, Engineering or Business Administration. Master's Degree in Science or Business Administration preferred.
Eight (8) years of experience in the Quality test laboratory, with hands on experience in the following areas: Laboratory Scheduling and Inventory Control. Three (3) years of experience managing direct reports.
Verbal and written communication Skills in Spanish and English.
Knowledge of GMP, safety regulations.
Strong interpersonal relations.
Strong knowledge in statistics preferred for the role.
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, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.
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