The PDS&T Director will play a key leadership role within the site, serving as a member of the Site Leadership Team and providing strategic direction for late-stage product and process development, commercialization, and lifecycle management.
In this role, you will lead multidisciplinary teams and collaborate closely with site, global, technical, quality, regulatory, engineering, and R&D stakeholders. You will ensure that products, processes, laboratories, and technical activities meet applicable quality, regulatory, safety, operational, and business requirements.
This role has a direct impact on AbbVie’s exciting and rapidly growing portfolio of medical aesthetic products, with a major focus on dermal fillers.
Key responsibilities
Strategic & Technical Leadership
- Shape the site’s long-term technical strategy and roadmap, identifying future technologies, capabilities, risks, and opportunities.
- Drive alignment between site priorities, product strategy, and asset governance.
- Lead PDS&T budget and investment priorities in partnership with site and global stakeholders.
Late-Stage Development & Commercialization
- Lead the late-stage development and commercialization of strategic projects.
- Define development strategies to ensure robust products and processes are successfully transferred to manufacturing.
- Drive cross-functional execution against agreed development plans, timelines, budgets, and regulatory requirements.
- Represent PDS&T within key leadership and portfolio governance forums.
Product & Process Lifecycle Management
- Lead the optimization of manufacturing processes following product transfer, integrating quality, regulatory, productivity, safety, and operational requirements.
- Support market expansion through the implementation of global regulatory requirements.
- Provide technical support for investigations into marketed-product issues, in partnership with Quality and Engineering.
- Strengthen product and process knowledge and technical capabilities across the site.
- Ensure development laboratory capabilities, equipment, and operations meet quality, EHS, and business requirements.
People Leadership
- Lead, develop, and engage PDS&T managers and teams in line with AbbVie values and leadership principles.
- Build the capabilities and resources required to support the site’s medium- and long-term objectives.
- Foster strong collaboration across site, global, technical, quality, engineering, and R&D functions.
- Influence and align senior, cross-functional, and technical stakeholders in a complex matrix environment.
- Clearly define and communicate roles and responsibilities to enable effective collaboration.
- Travel up to 25% both locally and internationally to help foster collaboration, evaluate next generation technologies and drive project deliverables.