Director, Drug Product Development, CMC Biologics

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

Seeking a highly motivated professional to join its neurotoxin drug product development team located at Irvine, CA. This individual will play a key role in advancing the company’s innovative pipeline of neurotoxins with significant technical complexity. Reporting to the Senior Director of Drug Product Development, the individual will lead a matrixed team, providing leadership to build, operationalize, and optimize functional systems, processes, and strategies, enabling the successful advancement of early-stage projects.

Major Responsibilities:

• Drive drug product projects, initiatives, and workflows, working with the formulation scientists in a matrixed structure.
• Oversee daily operations of the Drug Product laboratory for highly potent toxin compounds, ensuring compliance with CDC audits, and driving continuous improvement initiatives to optimize lab processes.
• Ensure compliance with AbbVie safety, quality, and regulatory policies, as well as relevant government regulations.
• Implement and manage functional processes and workflows for operational excellence. Enable increased team performance through implementing process and / or operational improvements that improve productivity and team output overall.
• Support operational budget management, tracking and coordinating resource demand and capacity to ensure alignment with project goals and priorities.
• Coordinate and communicate across multidisciplinary teams to manage complex drug product development strategies. Evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to ensure seamless project execution.
• Lead initiatives for continuous improvement within the Drug Product R&D organization, champio