JOB DESCRIPTION:

Job TitleQA Director – Mexico Site About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Mexico City – Manufacturing Site, in in the Established Pharmaceutical Division.

We are committed to bringing the benefits of our trusted medicines to more people in the world’s fastest-growing countries. Our broad portfolio of high-quality and differentiated branded generic medicines reaches across multiple therapeutic areas including gastroenterology, women's health, cardiometabolic, pain management/central nervous system, and respiratory.

As the QA Director, you will facilitate quality control of products manufactured in the unit, from raw material to finished product packaging and validation of manufacturing processes, ensuring compliance and implementation of policies and global and local standards and legislation.

What You’ll Do

• Participate in strategic planning unit, propose actions aimed at maintaining the profitability and sustainability of business in the short, medium and long term.
• Gain control and compliance with medical and scientific standards for products of the unit, defining criteria, methods and procedures for chemical and microbiological analysis and validation of production processes and systems involved in product quality, legal compliance and internal rules.
• Facilitate efforts to ensure the practice of quality systems in place and compliance with legal requirements for production processes (factory and lab), as well as the development of packaging for products marketed by Abbott, aiming to maintain levels of product excellence.
• Gain control and compliance with the specifications for certain products and packaging produced by the unit identification through analysis of the raw material, manufacturing process and packaging, in compliance with internal rules and legal.
• To act in situations of greater complexity, involving negotiations with unit managers, seeking solutions that ensure product quality and meet the Abbott business needs and production.
• Ensure regulatory compliance throughout the manufacturing process of the unit.
• Participate in strategic planning of sales and operations, to identify needs and make the planning of the Management of Quality Assurance aligned with financial goals, and commercial production.

Required Qualifications

• QFB Bachelor Degree – Mandatory
• MBA or Post Graduation in Business Management or Business Management
• Fluent Spanish
• Fluent English

Preferred Qualifications

• People management
• Finance
• Regulatory Legislation
• Technical research in the area of quality
• Methodologies for validation and quality

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is

N/A

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

JOB FAMILY:

Operations Quality

DIVISION:

EPD Established Pharma:

LOCATION:

Mexico > Mexico City : Tlalpan

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 20 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Not Applicable