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 Pharmacovigilance, Patient Safety, Epidemiology, and Quality (PSEQ) Business Process Office is comprised of Business Process Owners (BPOs) who are accountable for the definition, health, and performance of Pharmacovigilance’s (PV’s) key end-to-end processes. The BPO partners closely with process stakeholders to ensure alignment of people, process and technology and is empowered to identify and champion improvements.

Responsibilities:

This role will oversee the process improvement and management of an assigned PV process(es). Responsibilities include the mastery and execution of process management and continuous improvement theories and methodologies as well as a high level of business acumen specifically in Pharmacovigilance, Individual Case Safety Report Processing, Quality System Management and/or Medical Device Safety.

• Process Improvement: Accountable for delivering process transformations and continuous process improvement for assigned PV process(es).

• Identify, lead and deliver transformation projects.

• Establish and deploy process strategy, objectives and long-range roadmap with input from key stakeholders and by leveraging technology and innovation.

• Process Management: Accountable for process performance oversight, process related decision-making, and all process related maintenance activities for assigned PV process(es).

• Partner closely with functional area management and subject matter experts (SMEs) for the assigned process(es) who are responsible for process content, outputs, and quality.

• Define, monitor and manage key compliance and operational performance indicators / metrics.

• Own management review content.

• Facilitate periodic operations reviews with stakeholders.

• Maintain Quality System Documentation.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) degree required

• 12+ years professional experience required with BS (8+ with Masters, 5+ with PhD)

• 5+ years dedicated process management and continuous improvement experience required

• Track record of delivering impactful transformative change required

Preferred Qualifications:

• BS-Industrial Engineering preferred

• Master of Business Administration (MBA) preferred

• Lean or Lean Six Sigma certification preferred, Lean Bronze+ or LSS Black Belt preferred

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. ​

• 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, 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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Salary: $133,500 - $253,500