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Senior Associate, Product Development Quality Assurance-Hybrid, Chicago

AbbVie

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Compensation
$79K/yr
Location
North Chicago, ILHybrid
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Associate, Product Development Quality Assurance supports AbbVie’s pipeline by managing batch disposition activities and helping ensure compliant, high-quality clinical supplies reach patients. The role partners with business and functional teams, resolves batch-record documentation issues, and supports uninterrupted supply. It also provides quality oversight across documentation, audits, projects, metrics, process improvements, and manufacturing-floor activities.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing ProcessesAnalytical SciencesWorldwide GMP RequirementsComplex Activity CoordinationOrganizational SkillsInterpersonal SkillsTeamworkLeadershipNegotiationOral CommunicationWritten CommunicationProblem SolvingQuality AssuranceBatch Record ReviewAudit ManagementQuality Metrics Analysis

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Life Sciences or Equivalent Experience4+ Years Industry Experience

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Company Description

  • 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, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/) Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvie/) , X (https://twitter.com/abbvie) and YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie)

Job Description

This role is primarily responsible for supporting AbbVie’s pipeline, by supporting batch

disposition activities and ensuring high-quality clinical supplies that are compliant with global

regulatory requirements and standards are delivered to patients. This is achieved by effectively

partnering with the business, ensuring risks are mitigated appropriately and supporting efficient

review of clinical supply batches to support continued uninterrupted access to clinical supplies.

The successful candidate will be able to manage multiple tasks and adjust priorities based on

supply needs. This position requires the ability to positively interact with multiple functional

areas quickly and effectively resolve batch record documentation related issues independently,

ensuring schedules are maintained and material is readily available.

Responsibilities:

  • Review and approve batch records and release batches or analytical records. Write/ review/ approve processes/procedures and related documents.

  • Lead/assist in the preparation and management of audits conducted by regulatory agencies, customers, and R&D GxP Compliance.

  • Provide quality approvals in the materials management system as defined by procedures. Write, review and/or approve exception documents and product complaints (as applicable), corrective actions/preventive actions (CA/PA) and ensure they meet timeliness requirements.

  • Review/approve clinical documentation and specifications, as applicable.

  • Actively lead/participate on assigned project team(s) to support the product development process by using expertise to anticipate/resolve quality issues.

  • Generate, analyze, and report quality metrics to management. Lead/participate with support groups in developing/prioritizing QA activity timelines.

  • Actively monitor the effectiveness of processes and quality of project work with management and propose and execute quality/process improvements.

  • Provide quality oversight on the manufacturing floor, as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree, typically in life sciences (biology, chemistry, or engineering), and/or equivalent experience.

  • 4+ years of industry experience in Quality Assurance, production, or testing of active pharmaceutical ingredients, drug products, drug development, or another healthcare-related field; less experience may be considered with an advanced degree.

  • Broad understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing processes (chemical and biological), analytical sciences, and worldwide GMP requirements (D, EU, US) is preferred.

  • Experience coordinating and planning complex activities.

  • Proven organizational skills.

  • Interpersonal, team, leadership, and negotiation skills to handle conflicting priorities.

  • Effective oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate the quality position and the actions necessary to resolve issues.

  • Ability to identify and resolve complex problems through effective use of technical and interpersonal skills.

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 and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Salary: $78,500

How this job compares

Set against the 5,093 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$79K/yr
  • Illinois median$86–129K/yr95 salary ranges
  • US median$88–141K/yr2,314 salary ranges

This rate, $79K, is 31% below the Illinois median midpoint ($114K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Assurance salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 144 open Quality Assurance jobs in Illinois and 5,093 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,909 postings).
Education
1,786 of the 5,093 open Quality Assurance jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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