Design Assurance Senior Manager

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 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 5,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.

Abbott Rapid Diagnostics is part of Abbotts Diagnostics family of businesses, bringing together exceptional teams of experts and industry-leading technologies to support diagnostic testing which provides important information for the treatment and management of diseases and other conditions. IDEM is an over a billion-dollar business unit that now support significant growth for Abbott in COVID-19 related products in over 70+ countries.

Job Description:

Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the Design Controls systems across IDEM Manufacturing plants

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop and execute strategies to optimize Design Controls process within IDEM and ensure compliance and connectivity to the broader Abbott design assurance process requirements.

• Provide design assurance oversight to all functions operating in the New Product Introduction area.

• Define clear roles and responsibilities for all functions to ensure effective execution of the design controls process (R&D, RA, PM, Operations, Clinical).

• Ensure timely communication with VP of QA and Senior Leaders on critical design quality

• Manage resources to support product launches, appropriately matching skill set of individual direct reports to demands of projects, prioritizing efforts, anticipating technical issues and assuring successful project outcomes.

• Conduct/Coordinate regular and robust design reviews that provide assessment of issues, risks, and resource requirements for all phases of NPI projects.

• Ensure that product/process/package/label/Test Method designs and associated documentation comply with applicable Regulations for products distributed globally (US/OUS).

• Pro-actively monitor Post Market surveillance trends to ensure any potential design issues are addressed as well as developing a closed loop feedback system to the design process.

• Work closely with the R&D and Design Quality teams to ensure robust new product launch planning and successful design transfer process.

• Design Controls SME and person directly responsible to represent IDEM with outside Regulatory authorities (FDA, NMPA, Notified Bodies, MoH, WHO) on design quality.

• Participate in Regulatory Agency inspections and respond to queries related to product design controls, change control and complaints.

• Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs and R&D to establish appropriate product filing strategies and provide necessary product documentation for submission.

• Establish and execute design control policies, procedures, processes and principles to ensure robust product designs, appropriate evaluation during development and document change controls compliant with requirements.

• Collaborate with R&D in the development of Design test protocols and study plans and ensure both test plans and reports are compliant with all applicable regulatory requirements.

• Work with R&D to ensure that Product Test Methods are designed to provide the appropriate challenge to products and validated appropriately.

• Work with R&D to ensure successful and cost-effective product scale-up and technology transfer from R&D to commercial manufacture.

• Establish a post launch review process that monitors new product performance against the expected market performance and triggers escalation/intervention as necessary.

• Develop design assurance processes, systems, and Staff, delivering a high performing team that supports successful NPI execution across all IDEM Sites.

Requirements:

• Job requires extensive knowledge of Medical Devices and/or IVD design and manufacturing as well as experience in a fast-moving R&D environment.

• Proven track record of results managing projects in a highly regulated environment.

• Strong Leadership capability and ability to influence change balancing compliance with pragmatic

• Problem solving.

• Proven track record in delivering successful NPI programs on budget and on time.

• Proven track record in delivering Continuous Improvement programs.

• Must have strong technical ability and be articulate in message delivery.

• Ability to work and interact with several cultures across various time zones.

• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills to influence many diverse internal and external stakeholders.

• Ability to present complex technical information to Senior Management.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree Engineering/Science/Life Sciences - Post graduate degree desirable.

• 5 years plus experience in a QA/R&D 0r other technical leadership role in a regulated environment.

• Experience managing in an environment with changing priorities and making appropriate risk-based decisions in the face of uncertainty.

• Experience managing a design assurance team is essential and preferably experience working with teams remotely.

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