Global Quality Excellence Lead

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:

Working at Abbott

According to the World Health Organization, approximately 422 million people have diabetes today and by 2045 the number is projected to rise to 700 million people. The Abbott Diabetes Care FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitor (CGM) sensor and customer experience delivers patient-centered solutions and empathetic experiences critical to helping people with diabetes understand how to manage their disease-state and live life to the fullest.

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

The Global Quality Excellence Lead is responsible for overseeing the implementation, maintenance, and continuous improvement of Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) solutions, Training and Quality Management Systems, and reporting.

This role ensures effective integration of PLM solutions into the company’s product development processes, enhancing collaboration, efficiency, and product quality. Key responsibilities include facilitating secure information sharing and collaboration between manufacturing sites, R&D, TPMs, suppliers, and the Quality function. The role also involves managing vigilance reporting solutions, including measuring, and monitoring key performance indicators to analyze trends. A significant focus is on identifying solutions to meet evolving business needs, eliminating redundant systems and processes, and automating operations to deliver business efficiencies.

Additionally, the role delivers solutions that enable the business to administer company quality and compliance training effectively. This includes implementing and maintaining systems that support the creation, organization, and distribution of training content.

Core Job Responsibilities

The Global Quality Excellence Lead will lead efforts in process optimization, cross-functional collaboration, and data management, while handling various types of change orders and documentation to maintain compliance and support organizational goals. Ensuring that these systems are aligned with industry standards and regulatory requirements, the role facilitates continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the organization.

• Strategic Insight and Best Practices:
  • Contribute to the development and execution of strategic initiatives.
  • Develop long-term roadmaps to align business strategy with technology strategy to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
  • Manage project demand to ensure resources are allocated effectively.
  • Bring insight, knowledge, best practices, and feedback to strategic discussions to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Business Enablement
  • Collaborative Product Development: Facilitate unified product data visibility for production planning, process validation, and quality control.
  • Engineering Change Management: Automate change workflows, establish review boards, and ensure traceability and compliance.
  • Manufacturing Process Management: Align product-to-process, manage BOM specifications, and integrate changes.
  • Product Data Management: Centralize control, str