Project Leader (TPM – Third Party Manufacturing) Quality - Nutrition - Columbus, OH

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. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Project Leader (TPM – Third Party Manufacturing) Quality

Working at Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna® – to help them get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.

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.

Our location in Columbus OH, currently has an opportunity for a Project Leader (TPM – Third Party Manufacturing Quality)

The primary function of the TPM group is to ensure a high-quality supply of finished products through evaluation, monitoring and development of Abbott Nutrition TPM suppliers worldwide.  TPM QA is responsible for working and communicating with manufactures as part of an ongoing supplier management process.  TPM QA supports systems such as: supplier qualification, supplier development, supplier monitoring, and supplier event management.  In addition, TPM QA partners with cross functional teams to commercialize new products at TPMs.  

The Project Leader (TPM QA) will support account managers for all things quality across multiple suppliers that manufacture finished products on behalf of Abbott nutrition.  Within this role you will serve as the representative of Abbott to the supplier for numerous technical departments while coordinating activity with the supplier on behalf of regulatory, R&D, procurement, package engineering, and many more internal stakeholders.  Conversely, the individual in this role must also be responsible for accurately serving as a representative of the supplier in numerous meetings and exchanges internally within Abbott. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO  

• Perform qualification/change activities for various commodities associated with Global TPMs.
• Support compliance projects related to ingredient, packaging, and finished good suppliers.
• Write and/or review specifications, engineering studies, validation packages, change requests, etc. to ensure product quality is maintained, and use quality tools to improve and assure quality.
• Support and ensure technical readiness by the supplier/manufacturer in advance of new product launches, trials, etc.
• Support TPM QA team in monitoring the CAPA system to identify trends, identification of root cause, and effective CAPA plans.
• Track and trend established QA metrics (KPI and CAPA). Communicate monthly and /or quarterly data, as required, to the Division and Corporate Levels.
• Identify new and / or modify and enhance existing sources of quality data for Continuous Improvement.
• Maintain relevant documentation (i.e. QA policies, procedures, specifications, and acceptance programs) and assure these documents are current and compliant to division and corporate level policies and procedures as well as external governing bodies.