Sr. Quality Specialist – Post Market & Supplier Quality

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Sr. Quality Specialist – Post Market & Supplier Quality

Working at Abbott

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 Sr. Quality Specialist – Post Market & Supplier Quality role independently leads projects to resolve complex issues by analyzing problems, assessing risks, and drawing conclusions aligned with business and compliance needs. It involves reviewing complaints for regulatory compliance and patient safety impact, determining reportability, and preparing regulatory submissions such as MDRs and vigilance reports. The position also manages supplier quality processes, including onboarding, risk assessment, and ensuring adherence to global standards like ISO 13485 and FDA regulations. Additionally, it drives cross-functional collaboration and quality system improvements across areas such as CAPA, audits, validation, and post-market surveillance. The role requires strong decision-making, timely documentation, and the ability to balance business objectives with risk mitigation, while occasionally traveling and ensuring adherence to EHS and organizational policies.

What You’ll Work On

• Independently lead groups and projects to resolve complex issues. analyze complex problems and identify their impact. establish probabilities. draw conclusions reflecting broad business needs. ensure compliance.
• Review complaint communications and assess for regulatory compliance, reportability, and potential impact to patient safety and business operations.
• Establish regulatory reportability decisions using event investigation and regulatory decision models.
• Own supplier onboarding, qualification, and requalification processes, including supplier risk assessments, quality agreements, documentation review, and Approved Supplier List maintenance.
• Lead supplier quality assurance activities to ensure compliance with internal quality standards and applicable regulations, including ISO 13485, FDA QSR, MDR/IVDR, and other global requirements.
• Write Medical Device Reports (MDRs), MedWatch, Vigilance, and other regulatory reports, ensuring timely transmission to the appropriate regulatory authorities.
• Compose written communications detailing the clinical observation, investigation and/or product analysis, and corrective actions, as applicable, to end use customers or regulatory bodies
• Cross-functionally lead alignment between departments and/or divisions which may include complaint handling, customer service, medical events, and product quality.
• Cross-functionally lead Quality System process improvements which may include training, corrective action and preventive action (CAPA) activities, equipment maintenance, product and process planning, quality audits, validation, product development/clinical research, design control activities, complaints, and post market surveillance.
• Work may require collaboration with other Division sites and/or other Abbott divisions.
• Responsible for completing documentation in a timely manner and in accordance with business standards.
• Travel up to 10% of the time both domestically and internationally to support organizational goals
• Understand and compl