Associate Director, External Quality & Business Development

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:

Associate Director, External Quality & Business Development

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

The Associate Director, External Quality & Business Development will work out of our Alameda, CA location in the Diabetes Care division. 

What You’ll Work On

• Leads strategy, management and support of global Third Party Manufactures (TPM), Suppliers and External Partners for ADC, including Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM), and Tier II suppliers proviing materials direct to the TPMs.
• Establishes and maintains quality systems to ensure products can be manufactured to the highest quality to exceed customer needs.
• Interfacing with all levels of Management within Abbott, Suppliers, TPMs and External Partners.
• Responsible for meeting supply chain resilience, GMI and business continuity to support a $10Bn business.
• Maintains a progressive supplier quality strategy by influencing strategic decision making beyond direct functional area.
• Third Party management of domestic and international sites for finished device manufacturing including yield and quality data reports, finished device acceptance, validation, external inspections, incoming, equipment calibration and maintenance activities.
• Builds strategic partnerships with internal and external stakeholders departmental and organizational objectives delivering Supply chain reliance & business continuity, as a business leader to further supplier management to deliver a $5Bn business with future growth to $10Bn
• Champions quality and compliance through awareness of requirements
• Develops operational strategy that comprehends and anticipates external compliance and regulatory requirements.
• Recruits, coaches and develops talent, fostering a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Management of department budget, expansion budgets, qualifications, incident resolution, metric reporting and validation for division products and parts (e.g, molded parts, assemblies, sterilization, finished products).
• Third Party management of domestic and international sites for finished device manufacturing including yield and quality data reports, finished device acceptance, validation, external inspections, incoming, equipment calibration and maintenance activities.
• Management of TPMs for offsite inspections and miscellaneous quality activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Minimum 10 years Experience in Quality Assurance/Regulatory & Operations in company with medically focused manufacturing environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Working knowledge of regulations and standards affecting Medical Device manufacturing (e.g. QSR, ISO, EN Quality System Requirements).
• Demonstrated experience with development, implementation and management of company-wide quality system procedures/practices.
• Minimum 4 years in management of direct resources or cross functional teams with a proven ability to work successfully cross-functionally and collaboratively to problem solve, initiate and manage projects, influence internal and external groups and provide leadership from a quality perspective.

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Divisional Information

Medical Devices

General Medical Devices:

Our medical devices help more than 10,000 people have healthier hearts, improve quality of life for thousands of people living with chronic pain and movement disorders, and liberate more than 500,000 people with diabetes from routine fingersticks.

Diabetes

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The base pay for this position is

$146,700.00 – $293,300.00

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

JOB FAMILY:Operations Quality

DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 2901 Harbor Bay Parkway

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Not specified

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing 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.

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