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, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

Purpose

The Senior Quality Operations Specialist assists site management to provide oversight on the quality system execution for the manufacturing and production areas at all times. The incumbent is required to observe, document, discuss, monitor and trend, and report quality adverse events related to the manufacturing of the product(s). Incumbent is required to lead and champion quality system improvement projects. QO Specialist is responsible to ensure highest quality and compliance of released batches at the AbbVie Operations Singapore, Tuas Singapore site.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure that products manufactured at AbbVie Operations Singapore meet approved company
policies, processes and procedures.Execute and provide oversight on procedures to ensure that incoming materials including raw
materials and commodities received at ABS meet approved company policies and processes.Lead and provide guidance in investigations arising out of non-compliance in incoming materials,
QC testing, manufacturing processes, warehousing or product. Perform root cause analysis and
identify effective corrective action and preventive action.Perform audit or review of completed incoming material inspection packages, Batch Records,
Manufacturing Logs, product changeover/line-clearance activities and administration of Quality Logs, e.g. QA Hold, QA tag out.Release incoming material, process, and product batches.Responsible for Annual Product Quality Review and Product Quality Assurance.Perform regular walk-thru of manufacturing, engineering, warehouse and QC areas as required to
ensure compliance is maintained at all times.Responsible to perform data trending independently and champion improvement kaizen with
respective areas for continuous improvement.Proactively seek to improve and simplify site processes and procedure, specifically relating to the
Operations function to ensure compliance is maintained at all times.Lead and support quality system implementation as appropriate.Lead and act as Subject Matter Expert in change management. Activities including to lead/
participate in cross functional team risk assessment and provide guidance in change management
process.Primary contact as site change coordinator and liaison with global change coordinator to ensure
all the global change proposal is managed and administrated in accordingly to the procedure.Participate and support new product introduction, operation excellence projects assigned by
management as appropriate.
Qualifications
Bachelor Degree in a Natural Sciences (i.e. Biology, Chemistry), Pharmacy, or Engineering6+ years of related pharmaceutical experience, with biopharmaceutical experience in Quality and / or Compliance (GxP) environmentStrong knowledge of quality / compliance management as well as regulations
and standards affecting APIs / BiologicsExperience in SAP, Trackwise strongly preferredTotal commitment to quality and application of quality risk managementDemonstrates the highest levels of integrity and a strong work ethicGood knowledge of GxP requirements and regulationsGood project management, planning and scheduling skillsGood communication skills both verbal and writtenGood interpersonal skills and able to work with cross functional team collaboratively
Additional Information

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