Associate Project Leader Design Assurance (Infant Formula Act (IFA) Compliance Support - 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:

Associate Project Leader Design Assurance (Infant Formula Act (IFA) Compliance Support

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.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division.

This position reports to the Program Manager, Global Design Assurance. Ensures that all Abbott Nutrition products meet the highest standards for quality required by regulations and is responsible for determining trends in the supply chain and adapting or transforming quality processes to achieve breakthrough improvements. Interruption in the distribution of products can result if these efforts are not well planned and coordinated across the business.

The Design Assurance (IFA) Compliance Support Project Leader will oversee quality programs to assure quality and regulatory compliance for our products with a focus on FDA regulated infant formulas and supporting programs. The Project Leader needs to be team oriented, agile, innovative and able to anticipate and mitigate risks. The Project Leader delivers timely, fact based, decisions focused on assuring quality and compliant products.

The successful candidate independently manages tasks and timelines and works in collaboration with manufacturing sites, internal and external testing labs and division teams to ensure deliverables.  The Project Leader will support internal and external audits to ensure accurate and timely responses.  Key responsibilities include data mining and analysis directly impacting testing strategies and department budget. 

What You’ll Work On

• Assures that the design and testing for all Abbott Nutritional products are fully compliant with applicable regulations.
• Utilizes Food Science knowledge to assure design, evaluate risk and successful manufacture.
• Monitors product, process and package quality performance and identifies quality related issues and trends.
• Works with multiple functions including Supply Chain, R&D, Operations, Regulatory and external partners.
• Works on problems of medium scope that can have significant business impact.
• Monitors, organizes, and reports data through use of multiple systems and applications.
• Displays working knowledge of relationships between regulations, labeling, process and product.
• Displays working knowledge of applicable product regulations and policies.
• Assures food safety through the use of HACCP and Microbiological knowledge.

Required Qualifications

• B. S. in Science Related field (Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology or other technical science area).

Preferred:

• Proficient technical writing skills; able to effectively and con