Senior Specialist Quality Assurance (Supplier Quality)

Senior Specialist Quality Assurance (Supplier Quality)

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
This position works out of our Des Plaines, IL location in the Abbott Molecular, Diagnostics Division. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people. 

The Senior Specialist Quality Assurance (Supplier Quality) will support in the selection, approval, and maintenance of the division's approved suppliers by performing supplier quality system assessments, monitoring supplier performance, and driving supplier corrective action and/or improvement activities.

What You’ll Work On

• Cross-functionally lead Supplier Quality Management process improvements which may include supplier change notifications, corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) activities, new product introduction support, quality audits, complaint investigations and supplier metrics and monitoring.
• Independently work to resolve complex issues. analyze complex problems and identify their impact. establish probabilities. draw conclusions reflecting broad business needs. ensure compliance.
• Work may require collaboration with other Division sites and/or other Abbott divisions.
• Responsible for completing documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with business standards.
• Travel up to 25% domestically to support supplier management and goals.
• Understand and comply with applicable EHS policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Works under general direction; independently determines and develops approach to solutions; work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives.

• Makes timely and effective decisions related to business issues within scope of responsibility; appropriately elevates high risk issues / decisions; identifies and quantifies risks and their consequences relative to the success of a project / task; recommends appropriate action; decisions or recommendations would typically achieve departmental / project objectives.
• Drives functional performance that ensures cross-functional standards and expectations are met.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's preferably in science, engineering or a closely related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Minimum 5 years relevant experience, such as Quality, Compliance, Engineering, within a regulated environment, such as medical devices, diagnostics, or pharmaceutical industries, to develop the competence required to meet the skills and responsibilities of the position.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree preferred.
• Knowledge of applicable US and non-US Quality System Requirements and other relevant regulations for medical devices. Previous experience with audits and inspections.
• Strong working knowledge of ISO 13485 and regulatory require