Associate Medical Director, Medical Quality Assurance

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, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

The Medical Quality Assurance Physician plays a critical role in ensuring patient safety and product effectiveness within a pharmaceutical setting. This multifaceted position involves collaboration with the Product Safety Team to author and approve Health Hazard Assessments and Medical Opinions concerning potential product-related issues. The Medical Quality Assurance Physician is essential for maintaining high standards of product quality and safety, protecting patient well-being across all stages of product lifecycles.

Major Responsibilities:

•Design of product life cycle strategy, where key Quality System areas are underpinned by medical knowledge commensurate with the potential risk to patient safety e.g. risk assessment, manufacturing / distribution events, product complaints & product discontinuation

•Support the development and maintenance of device / combination products (e.g.- Design History Files, Risk Management Files , product benefit-risk assessments)

•Support the design of ‘product-use’ risk assessment tools, ensuring that the product risk/benefit profile for HCP/patient usage is appropriate

•Review of significant product changes, including specification changes, ensuring appropriate assessment of the proposed changes on patient safety

•Support the design of robust ‘alert’ and ‘action’ thresholds for product complaints, to enable effective signal monitoring, detection and action

•Review and approval of appropriate product complaints providing medical assessment of the potential risk to patient safety

•Review and approval of appropriate product labelling issues providing medical assessment of the potential risk to patient safety partnership, to support potential product related issues

•Key medical quality interface with Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety (PSEQ), Global Medical Affairs (GMA) and Clinical Development on high impact quality issues potentially affecting product safety & efficacy, including supporting construction of DHCP communications

•Review and approval of appropriate manufacturing / distribution events providing medical assessment of the potential risk to patient safety (Member of Triage Committee)

•Approval of Health Hazard Assessments & Medical Opinions, with Product Safety Team

• Minimum:  M.D. or equivalent (D.O., M.B.B.S, etc.)
• Board certification preferred, however a variety of clinical experiences are well-suited for this position
• 0-5 years of experience in drug risk management and/or medical device/ combination product vigilance (safety signal detection, data mining techniques, pharmacovigilance / device vigilance databases, etc.)
• Track record of successful management of product safety matters preferred
• Experience in the clinical and medical device development process in a global medical device company and preparation risk management plans, aggregate reports and company core safety information highly desirable
• Basic clinical, drug and/or medical device development expertise
• Good organizational and prioritization skills

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​

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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. ​

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