Quality Supply Planner

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

The Quality Control Planner is responsible for the oversight of the QC Laboratory Planning and Scheduling within the QC Team. It is also responsible for the procurement of consumables, reagents, and laboratory supplies. Additional responsibilities include short- and long-term forecasting to enable efficient and effective laboratory scheduling, including testing, equipment, and facilities maintenance, as well as other laboratory services coordination. It is responsible for defining the laboratory scheduling system as well as identifying continuous improvement opportunities within the planning, procurement, and lab services process.

Responsibilities

• Perform short- and long-term forecasts of laboratory demand, including commercial product testing, as well as non-commercial requests, equipment maintenance, and other laboratory service requirements.
• Maintains and manages laboratory planning and scheduling process, taking into consideration standard times, agreed cycle times and headcount, and equipment availability.
• Develop and maintain planning process in conjunction with supply chain, finance, manufacturing, technical center, and other departments within the plant
• Develop and maintain laboratory consumables, reagents and supplies inventory and procurement process to ensure we maximize the use of budget, space and inventory systems
• Oversight of laboratory services including equipment and facilities maintenance
• Supervise laboratory servicer(s) to ensure inventory of reagents, consumables and supplies is maintained in a healthy level and appropriate location to assure the continuity of laboratory operation, but within the approved budget
• Continuously identify cost reduction initiatives and process improvement opportunities and drive for implementation

• Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering or Material Management is required. BS in Industrial Engineering Preferred.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience as an exempt level
• Three (3) to Five (5) years of experience in a pharmaceutical industry role with preferred experience in program/project/product management and/or scheduling.
• Advanced use of MS Office applications including Excel, Power BI, and Access required, experience with planning and scheduling software or systems preferred.
• General knowledge of cGMPs, cGLPs, and other regulations.
• Fully Bilingual (English / Spanish) is required.

Significant Work Activities

• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day),
• Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday),
• Work in a clean room environment

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

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. ​

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.