

New · posted Nov 4
AbbVie · Pharmaceuticals
Global QC Product Lead
- North Chicago, IL
- On-site
- Full-time
- Senior & Principal
The role
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.
What you need
Preferred Qualificationsnice to have
- Broad experience across both analytical development and commercial QC environments.
- Experience with multiple analytical technologies, modalities, product types, and/or global QC laboratories.
- Experience supporting regulatory submissions, health-authority responses, regulatory inspections, or analytical-method-related commitments.
- Demonstrated experience with complex analytical method validation, transfer, investigations, remediation, and lifecycle management.
- Experience establishing platform approaches, global standards, technical governance models, or laboratory capability strategies.
- Demonstrated scientific leadership through mentoring, capability building, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
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 long-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.
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What you'll do
- Lead the global QC analytical implementation and lifecycle strategy for assigned late-stage and commercial products.
- Represent Global QC as a key Quality and scientific decision-maker in cross-functional product, CMC, analytical, validation, and transfer discussions.
- Translate development analytical strategies into robust, compliant, and sustainable approaches for routine QC execution.
- Provide strategic QC input from late-stage development through validation, co-validation, transfer, commercialization, troubleshooting, and ongoing lifecycle management.
- Independently review, challenge, and approve proposed validation, co-validation, and analytical method transfer strategies from a QC implementation perspective.
- Determine the final QC method design by balancing scientific requirements, product and regulatory needs, laboratory controls, network capability, and long-term sustainability.
- Assess receiving-site readiness, including technical expertise, instrumentation, laboratory controls, capacity, documentation, and operational constraints.
- Partner with QC sites and technical teams to identify and mitigate barriers to successful method implementation and reliable routine execution.
- Lead alignment across R&D, PDS&T, QC Operations, Operations Quality Assurance, Regulatory Affairs, CMC, and product teams.
- Provide scientific and Quality leadership for complex method transfer challenges, validation investigations, analytical issues, and cross-site troubleshooting.
- Identify and communicate scientific, Quality, regulatory, operational, supply, and timeline risks, including clear recommendations, trade-offs, mitigations, and escalation plans.
- Drive harmonization, platform approaches, reusable standards, lessons learned, and best practices that strengthen Global QC capability.
- Mentor QC scientists and technical subject matter experts and communicate complex technical matters clearly to project teams and senior leadership.
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.
- Bachelor’s degree with 16+ years of relevant industry experience, Master’s degree with 14+ years of relevant industry experience, or PhD with 8+ years of relevant industry experience in analytical chemistry, biochemistry, biological sciences, pharmaceutical sciences, chemistry, chemical engineering, pharmaceutics, or a related scientific discipline.
- Progressive scientific and Quality leadership experience in analytical development, Quality Control, analytical method validation, co-validation, method transfer, commercial analytical support, or related pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical areas.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the analytical method lifecycle and the transition of methods from development into sustainable commercial QC execution.
- Strong knowledge of current Good Manufacturing Practice requirements, laboratory controls, data integrity principles, and regulatory expectations applicable to pharmaceutical QC.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex scientific and operational problems and make timely, defensible, risk-based decisions.
- Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing outcomes across a matrixed, global organization.
- Strong stakeholder management, organizational, and communication skills, including the ability to present recommendations, risks, decisions, and mitigation plans to technical and leadership audiences.
Pay and benefits
$142,000 – $269,000 a year
Employer providedPaid time off
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401(k)
Long-term incentive programs
Where you'll work
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From the posting
About AbbVie
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.
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Job intelligence
The context around this role
Live data · November 4, 2026
Salary intelligence
How the pay compares
This role's midpoint is 115% above the US median for Quality Control roles at this level.
This roleEmployer provided
Senior & Principal roles in the US50 roles publishing pay
| Annual base pay | Low | Median | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| This role | $142,000 | — | $269,000 |
| All US (middle half) | $87,750 | $95,500 | $109,625 |
This role: AbbVie's own published range. Comparisons: the base pay employers published on open Quality Control roles at the same level on Regulatory Jobs, November 4, 2026. Nothing is estimated.
Career trajectory
Where this role sits in Quality Control
The general path across 242 open Quality Control roles on Regulatory Jobs, with the titles they carry most. Not AbbVie's own promotion track.
Skills DNA
What this role leans on
How many of the posting's 39 duty, requirement and summary lines touch each area. The posting's emphasis, not a proficiency score.
- Lab testing and methods21
- Collaboration and leadership15
- Validation and qualification7
- GMP and compliance2
- Investigations and CAPA2
- Documentation and SOPs1
- Regulatory submissions1
- Quality systems and risk1
- Data and digital systems1
- Clinical trial conduct1
Regulatory intelligence
The rules, regulations and standards behind this role
The regulations, guidance and standards that govern Quality Control work in pharmaceuticals, led by the two this posting names, each linked to the agency or standards body that publishes it.
- FDA21 CFR Parts 210 and 211(official source, opens in a new tab)FDA current good manufacturing practice for finished pharmaceuticalsNamed in the posting
- FDAFDA data integrity guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)Data Integrity and Compliance With Drug CGMP: Questions and AnswersNamed in the posting
- USPUSP–NF(official source, opens in a new tab)US Pharmacopeia general chapters and monographs, such as <61> bioburden, <85> endotoxin, <1225> validation
- FDAFDA OOS guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)Investigating Out-of-Specification (OOS) Test Results for Pharmaceutical Production
- ICHICH Q2(R2) and Q14(official source, opens in a new tab)Validation and development of analytical procedures
- FDAFDA analytical procedures guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)Analytical Procedures and Methods Validation for Drugs and Biologics
- FDAFDA Investigations Operations Manual(official source, opens in a new tab)How FDA investigators plan and conduct inspections
- FDA21 CFR Part 11(official source, opens in a new tab)FDA rules for electronic records and electronic signatures
- ICHICH Q1 stability testing(official source, opens in a new tab)Stability testing of drug substances and drug products
- EDQMEuropean Pharmacopoeia(official source, opens in a new tab)The Ph. Eur. quality standards for medicines in Europe, published by the EDQM
- ICHICH Q3 impurities(official source, opens in a new tab)Impurities in drug substances and products, residual solvents and elemental impurities
- FDAFDA aseptic processing guidance(official source, opens in a new tab)Sterile Drug Products Produced by Aseptic Processing: Current Good Manufacturing Practice
- ISOISO 14644-1(official source, opens in a new tab)Cleanroom air cleanliness classification by particle concentration
- EUEU GMP (EudraLex Volume 4)(official source, opens in a new tab)The EU's good manufacturing practice rules, including Annex 1 sterile and Annex 15 validation
- ISOISO/IEC 17025(official source, opens in a new tab)Competence of testing and calibration laboratories
- ICHICH Q7(official source, opens in a new tab)Good manufacturing practice for active pharmaceutical ingredients
Company hiring pulse
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- 114
- Open roles
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- Distinct roles
- 16
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By discipline
- Clinical66 58%
- Regulatory24 21%
- Quality24 21%
By level
- Director62 54%
- Manager24 21%
- Senior & Principal12 11%
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Global QC Product Lead at AbbVie
Open until filled. $142K–$269K a year, employer provided.

