Manager Quality Assurance

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Description:

Manager Quality Assurance

• Working at Abbott
• At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity
This position can be located out of our Dallas, TX or Abbott Park, IL location in the Transfusion Medicine, Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

The Manager Quality Assurance will manage experienced QA professionals who exercise latitude and independence in their assignments. The team will support complaint investigations, tracking and trending, metrics, audit support, and complaint data mining activities among other responsibilities.  There may be additional assignments defined in terms of activities and objectives. Work is reviewed for adequacy in meeting objectives.

What You’ll Work On

• Interacts frequently with internal personnel and outside representatives at various levels.
• Routinely operates as a liaison with external customers.
• Participates and presents at meetings with internal and externals representatives.
• Responsible for managing one or more quality system elements/functions as defined in the site Quality Manual.
• Implements the quality plan in accordance with the quality objectives/goals and maintains the effectiveness of the quality system.
• Recommends staffing and other necessary resource requirements needed to achieve business goals and compliance requirements.
• Resolves project team issues with minimal oversight.
• Responsible for ensuring that functional areas of responsibility have adequate training programs for adhering to all safety requirements and business EHS goals.
• Manage the development and implementation of quality goals.
• Merging leader that demonstrates strong leadership competencies.
• Decision making that has impact on work processes and outcomes, which could cause serious delays and considerable expenditure of an additional time, human recourses, and funds.
• May define and implement critical parameter for design control and related systems throughout the product lines.
• May maintain effective Quality Metrics and define and execute activities to resolve decreases in performance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (± 16 years) Scientific or technical discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 5 years experience. 5-7 years of experience in a function or related field. 2 years of direct supervisor experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree (± 18 years) Preferred
• Must have demonstrated solid knowledge and experience in the discipline.
• Demonstrated leadership competencies. Considered a Subject Matter Expert.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects.
• Flexibility, strong problem-solving skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, solid organizational ability, negotiation skills, with the ability to drive cross-functional teams.
• An emerging leader who demonstrates strong leadership competencies.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is

$111,300.00 – $222,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Family:

Operations Quality

Division:

TM Transfusion Medicine

Location:

United States > Abbott Park : AP08B

Additional Locations:

United States > Texas > Plano : 6600 Pinecrest, United States > Texas > Plano : 6901 Preston Road

Work Shift:

Standard

Travel:

Yes, 10 % of the Time

Medical Surveillance:

Not Applicable

Significant Work Activities:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdfEEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf