Senior Director, R&D Quality Transformation and Data Science

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

AbbVie is dedicated to delivering a consistent stream of innovative, safe, and effective medicines and products that solve serious health issues and have a remarkable impact on people’s lives. As a quality organization in research & development, R&D Quality Assurance is committed to driving quality excellence across all stages of discovery and development for the product’s lifecycle to achieve product realization and accelerate access to innovative therapies and products for our patients.

Patient needs, stakeholder demands, industry innovation, regulatory landscape, and AbbVie’s evolved business strategy are complex, rapid pace, and dynamic. Emphasizing and embedding quality in the execution of clinical trials, post market vigilance, and post market studies assures patient safety, maintains data integrity, fosters regulatory compliance, and contributes to the overall success of drug/device development programs.

The Sr Director, R&D Quality Transformation and Data Science is an enterprise leader driving transformation across R&D Quality Assurance, integrating digital, analytics (including AI/ML), and operational best practices. This role sets the strategic vision for optimizing quality processes, data science, and AI, building insights from the Quality Beyond Compliance diagnostic survey and other organizational feedback to elevate quality culture, streamline ways of working, and accelerate innovation.

This position is suited for a transformative leader passionate about shaping R&D QA’s future—not just through technology and data science, but through operational excellence and a commitment to quality culture informed by stakeholder insights. The role reports directly to the Vice President of R&a