Quality Intelligence Project Manager

The opportunity

Commercial QA has an opportunity for a Quality Intelligence Project Manager based in Zwolle, Netherlands or Shanghai, Beijing, China.

About Abbott

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. In the Netherlands, we are committed to delivering high-quality products and services that improve lives.

Abbott Nutrition Supply Chain’s (ANSC) QA Organization is responsible for Quality and Compliance of Abbott Nutrition (AN) manufacturing and products.

About the Role

As a Quality Intelligence Project Manager within the Commercial QA Global Strategy team, you will play a key role in supporting quality and compliance activities. You will manage the compliance related around quality assessments and lead multiple associated medium to large-scale projects that support ANSC Quality Assurance strategic and compliance objectives.  The Quality Intelligence Project Manager has the broad objective of supporting quality activities Globally for AN Division QA, AN Affiliate QA and ANSC Manufacturing sites US and OUS.

This position will independently interface with Abbott affiliates, AN Division, AN manufacturing plants, R&D, Regulatory, Supply Chain and others. Success will depend on leadership in successfully managing the process, governance and resources required to timely assess market signals that impact ANSC quality systems and to ensure adequate and timely adherence to these in terms of updating the quality system at all levels of the Supply chain and the Commercial Affiliate. The position will achieve the objectives through effective communication, and strong interpersonal and presentation skills.

The Zwolle based role will be focused on EU regulation. the Shanghai role will be focused on Pacific Asia regulations (including China). 

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the process to implement published Regulations and Standards in terms of monitoring, assessing, and ensuring change management and change control activities are timely and adequately completed.
• Cross-functionally remediate current and future regulatory impact on the quality system.
• Process changes to policies, procedures and systems that will ensure AN and market compliance requirements are met.
• Ensure project scope is clearly defined: develop and manage project plans to meet deliverables.
• Manage cross-functional project timelines and follow up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks.
• Responsible for identifying and managing critical project issues and risks, and timely communication to senior leadership.
• Address any resource constraints associated through data driven business proposals to meet compliance requirements objectives and mitigate business risk
• Provide clear and consistent communication, both oral and written to all project stakeholders on key project elements such as scope timeline, issues, etc.
• Active engagement and leadership of relevant global projects and adherence to established PMO governance guidelines.
• Integrate key AQR/AN QA initiatives as appropriate, based on compliance risk and availability of resources and business processes to support.
• Recommend and implement strategies and enhancements to improve efficiency.

Accountability/Scope

• The quality and compliance of AN products is a competitive advantage in the marketplace, and any lessening of our standards or not meeting market requirements can have an adverse long-term impact on our business. This position will work with limited supervision.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline/or equivalent work experience is required (Business Administration, Chemistry, Microbiology, Food Science, Engineering).
• 5-7 years in a regulated nutritional food-manufacturing environment, preferably pediatric or medical nutrition products, in a Quality, R&D, Project Management, Procurement or Operations function and good knowledge of food GxP and nutritional regulations.
• Knowledge in nutritional manufacturing controls and quality systems.
• 3-5 years’ experience in project leadership roles.
• Critical thinking/problem-solving skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to plan and facilitate meetings.
• Effective Stakeholder Management
• Experience in working with international locations and partners

Preferred

• Master’s degree
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification by the Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Ingredient expertise, process expertise, and formulation expertise in nutritional and infant concepts.

• Continuous improvement methods and application (for example: Lean, Six Sigma, Class A, etc.).

What can we offer you?

Abbott provides a varied, challenging, and international position in a dynamic and pleasant working environment. In our organization, you can count on excellent primary and secondary benefits, a positive working atmosphere, a personal growth plan, extensive training opportunities and good career perspective. We are in the business of advancement, both in health solutions and in the lives and careers of our employees. Our work across the world and in many areas of healthcare provides a rich environment for our employees to explore career paths, interests and opportunities.

The base pay for this position is

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