Global QC Product Lead at AbbVie, North Chicago, IL

Global QC Product Lead at AbbVie in North Chicago, IL. Full-time. Apply with swipeandhired.

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Global Lab Solutions (GLS), part of Operations Quality Assurance, designs and enables the systems, capabilities, standards, and partnerships that strengthen laboratory performance, support pipeline progression, and promote consistent, compliant execution across AbbVie’s global Quality Control network. Within GLS, Global QC Product Governance translates product and analytical strategy into QC readiness by connecting R&D, Product Development Science & Technology (PDS&T), Operations Quality, and QC laboratories to ensure analytical methods, standards, critical reagents, and supporting controls are ready for reliable commercial execution. AbbVie is seeking an accomplished scientific and Quality leader for the role of Global QC Product Lead. This individual will provide strategic Quality leadership and governance for the implementation and lifecycle management of commercial analytical methods across AbbVie’s global QC network. Serving as a primary Global QC interface for assigned products, the Product Lead will integrate scientific, Quality, operational, and product considerations to enable analytical strategies that are compliant, fit for routine use, transferable, and sustainable.
The role provides independent oversight and decision-making for QC analytical implementation, including review and challenge of validation, co-validation, and method transfer strategies; assessment of laboratory capability and readiness; and determination of the QC method design needed for dependable commercial execution. Success requires deep analytical lifecycle expertise, enterprise thinking, strong risk-based judgment, and the ability to lead across a global matrix without direct authority.

Key Responsibilities

Why This Role Matters
The Global QC Product Lead helps ensure that AbbVie’s analytical methods can be executed reliably where and when they are needed. The role strengthens commercial readiness, protects testing continuity and product supply, accelerates pipeline transitions into the QC network, and builds durable analytical capabilities that can be leveraged across products and laboratories.
Key Interfaces
R&D and BioARD analytical leaders; PDS&T analytical and commercial method leads; QC site management, scientists, and technical subject matter experts; Operations Quality Assurance; Regulatory Affairs; Manufacturing; CMC and product teams; and other Quality and technical functions supporting assigned products.

Preferred Qualifications

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

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