2025 Patient Safety & Quality Development Program - Insights and Operations

Company Description

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.

Job Description

AbbVie’s Patient Safety & Quality - Insights and Operations Development Program consists of three rotations over two years to prepare you for future key positions within AbbVie. The program combines experiential learning, formal training, and coaching and mentoring by our business leaders. You will have the opportunity to work in 3 different roles which are designed to give you broad exposure and learning opportunities across the Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety, Epidemiology, and Quality (PSEQ) organization.

PSEQ works collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand, and communicate the safety profile and ensure quality standards of AbbVie products to protect patients worldwide.

Based on business need and your personal preferences, you have the potential to rotate through the following functional areas:

• Global Quality Systems develops, deploys, manages, and continuously improves the AbbVie Quality System in R &D to ensure the AbbVie Quality Policy objectives are achieved through a commitment to quality and continuing effectiveness of the Quality System.
• Health Literacy applies plain language principles to ensure health information is simple, understandable and actionable. The team creates patient and provider facing tools, including plain language summaries of clinical trial results, patient information leaflets, medication guides, and digital health tools. They ensure that health materials created are easily understandable and culturally competent by conducting user testing to validate the material’s effectiveness.
• Inspection & Audit independently assesses compliance and quality of AbbVie R &D’s pharmaceutical, device, and combination products GxP lifecycle standards. In partnership with R&D and R&D Quality, the team ensures continuous real time inspection readiness through identification of internal audit trends, knowledge management, and robust proactive CAPAs.
• Safety Operations Compliance: This team works globally to deliver high quality and timely adverse event management through industry-leading Individual Case Safety Reporting (ICSR) compliance at AbbVie. The team investigates ICSR non-compliance and identifies areas of opportunity to ensure alignment with global PV regulations and AbbVie expectations.

Most Development Program members will be placed within one of AbbVie’s offices in Lake County, IL for at least one rotation, with the possibility of an initial placement or rotation in another U.S. AbbVie location. Placements are subject to change and will be based on business needs and our ability to accommodate individuals' preferences, when possible. The position is limited to a maximum of 2 years.

Post Program: Members will be eligible for Safety and R&D Quality roles based on combination of role fit, business need, member performance, and member preference.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Successful completion of a bachelor’s degree in business, mechanical engineering, or other related field, with an expected graduation date between December 2024 – June 2025
• Demonstrated leadership experience within a school or student organization setting.
• Willingness to relocate outside of Lake County, IL for 1 or 2 eight-month rotation(s).
• Must submit unofficial or official transcript at time of application.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Capability to blend technical and business knowledge and supplement it with analytical expertise and innovative problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively manage projects within a work and/or academic environment, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and to the satisfaction of all stakeholders.
• Proven track record of working collaboratively in teams, being adaptable, innovative, proactive, and maintaining high ethical standards.
• Successful completion of the AbbVie Internship
• Cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher preferred.
• Mobile post-program.

Additional Information

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 an equal opportunity employer and 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.

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