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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Job Description
We are looking for a Technical Manager to join our Technical Centre team in Dublin. This position reports to the Associate Director, Technical Operations. You will lead and direct a team of technical experts whose primary focus is to resolve Chemistry, Manufacturing and Controls (CMC) challenges/issues. This role requires strong cross-functional technical collaboration, program management skills, and technical expertise across oral solid dosage (OSD) technologies.
Roles and Responsibilities
* Chair cross-functional meetings with on-site and global colleagues to drive projects to achieve common goals, driving robust implementation over challenging timelines.
* Proactively identify business opportunities for the products, e.g., site internal qualification of more than one manufacturing room or a certain technology.
* Proactively seek knowledge internally within AbbVie and externally to implement potential improvements in processes.
* Independently design and conduct critical experiments that further project goals – including analyzing data from laboratory, pilot, and commercial plant trials and draw relevant conclusions.
* Read and adapt scientific literature to accomplish assignments and goals.
* Contribute to internal and external literature as appropriate sharing technical expertise to build capabilities and platforms.
* Demonstrate strong leadership by steering cross-functional teams on all technical aspects of product(s) including manufacturing, packaging, regulatory, safety, and supply chain.
* Lead collaborative technical discussions and provide critical oversight and coaching, supporting advancement in subject matter expertise among technical staff.
* Contribute to Chemistry Manufacturing Controls (CMC) team strategy, technical assessment/recommendation and data interpretation, timeline, resource, updates, issues, etc.
* Understand and adhere to corporate standards regarding code of conduct, safety, appropriate handling of materials, controlled drug and radioactive compounds, GxP compliance, and animal care where applicable.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of experience gained in the pharmaceutical industry, or Master’s degree and 10 years of experience, or PhD and 4 years of experience.
* Proven experience of leading technical staff on diverse projects within the pharmaceutical industry.
* Demonstrated theoretical and practical understanding of OSD manufacturing.
* Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams across regions and business sectors e.g., intercontinental teams, packaging teams, etc.
* Effective technical writer and communicator (white papers, presentations, and other regulatory materials).
* Previous research/lab experience and experience with statistical tools such as JMP or Minitab.
* Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and people skills.
* Ability to communicate concepts and problems in specific and straightforward terms that are understandable to all colleagues.
Additional Information
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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