Associate Director, Technical PDS&T

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 Associate Director, Technical position within the Product, Development, Sciences and Technology (PDS&T) organization is responsible for providing technical leadership, direction and management of the PDS&T teams.  The manager will provide technical expertise for commercial manufacturing during development of new products, manage operation and commercial timelines, and executes budgets for global projects and the team.  The Technical Manager establishes goals that are consistent with the department, development, manufacturing and customer requirements, implements plans and policies, assigns duties and responsibilities and controls subordinates performance to meet the goals and commitments.              

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership for multiple PDS&T projects and is responsible for financial planning, budget responsibility and timeline estimates of the project as well as execution.
• Responsible for implementation of global projects across AbbVie plants and marketed affiliates this includes both AbbVie plants and products manufactured at Third Party Manufacturers (TPMs).
• Provides technical expertise for marketed products and can represent the company in discussions with regulatory agencies.  Due to nature of the projects and support of marketed products, the impacts of decisions are significant to AbbVie's pharmaceutical Operations ($1B) to minimize back orders and regulatory risks.
• Each technical function is responsible for providing support for marketed products including those related to transfer of new chemical entities from R&D to various manufacturing plants as well as process improvement and CMC support of marketed products. The role al