Support the establishment and maintenance of effective compliance & oversight of external providers of pharmacovigilance services for AbbVie affiliates. At a minimum this system must ensure compliance with global regulatory requirements AbbVie standards and local PV regulations. The scope extends to all externalized services and providers overseen by PPS on behalf of AbbVie affiliates including adverse event management reporting and related operational activities and spans all marketed products
Responsibilities
- Manages standards and oversees the monitoring of outsourced processes investigates and leads the followup of discrepancies.
- Manages the monitoring of supplier performance via SLAs and other metrics prepares routine and ad hoc reports leads the investigation of trends and escalates issues as appropriate.
- Supports presentations of quality control results and trend analysis to senior crossfunctional
- AbbVie stakeholders.
- Support the establishment of AbbVie quality management processes for external suppliers of
- affiliate pharmacovigilance services that meet applicable PPS RDQA and affiliate standards and ensure reproducible controlled and timely delivery of highquality outputs.
- Collaborate with suppliers and internal partners to implement vendor quality management
- processes which integrate with supplier and AbbVie processes wherever possible. Support the use of riskproportionate approaches for inline and retrospective evaluations.
- Supports development of materials and delivers training sessions (through multiple modalities) in conjunction with supplier including trainthetrainer specialtopics refresher and internal AbbVie trainings as needed.
- Manages issue investigation (e.g. CAPAs) coordinating between AbbVie and supplier systems.
- Supports the communication and collaborates across internal and partner stakeholders for
- prioritization of issues as well as timely effective and permanent remediation actions.
- Performs quality control (QC) of all outsourced processes reliable documents results; proactively identifies areas of process and technical improvement and supports the implementation of changes.
- Proactively suggests changes in QC approaches to account for external and internal process
- regulatory and business change.
- Responsible as a member of the Affiliate PV Operations team for driving compliance and business excellence for all outsourced affiliate PV activities.
Qualifications :
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent in related science field
- 3 years pharmaceutical industry experience; including a minimum of 2 years in pharmacovigilance quality systems. Affiliate experience strongly preferred.
- Good knowledge of global pharmacovigilance regulations including one or more countries with an excellent understanding of PV quality assurance systems
- Skilled at technical writing and authoring including SOPs/procedural documents corrective actions plans / exception reports
- Good Excel data interrogation and interpretation skills and experience
- Good influencer across multiple stakeholders; seen as a collaborative partner across the organization
- Able to proactively identify assess and effectively manage compliance risks
- Experienced in working in crossfunctional teams
- Analytical with a high degree of attention to detail
- Very good written and spoken English and Dutch/Flemish
Additional Information :
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Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime