Associate Director, Quality Risk Management

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, Quality Risk Management is a strategic leader within AbbVie’s Global Quality Systems team. This role is responsible for driving enterprise-wide excellence and standardization in R&D Quality Risk Management, providing expert oversight, and fostering a culture of proactive risk identification, mitigation, and compliance with global regulatory and industry standards. Additionally, they will lead the QRM Quality System Network, which consists of SMEs and risk practitioners across R&D.  

Responsibilities:  

The Associate Director, Quality Risk Management is responsible to: 

• Serve as the strategic owner and leader of the global R&D Quality Risk Management (QRM) system, driving sustainable excellence and compliance across functions. 

• Design, develop, and continuously improve quality systems, standards, practices, and supporting tools, ensuring alignment with evolving regulatory and industry expectations. 

• Establish and maintain robust governance structures for QRM, proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating operational and regulatory risks. 

• Champion and harmonize QRM processes, documentation, and standards across R&D to achieve consistency and operational alignment. 

• Lead and mentor a global network of QRM subject matter experts (SMEs) and practitioners, fostering an enterprise-wide culture of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, and best practice adoption. 

• Act as the primary consultant and advisor to internal R&D stakeholders, providing QRM guidance, regulatory updates, issue resolution, and process implementatio