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.
Education and experience
- Master’s degree in general engineering, chemical engineering, process engineering, or a related scientific or technical discipline.
- At least 10 years of experience in product development, manufacturing, formulation, and/or technical roles.
- At least 6 years of managerial experience within the pharmaceutical and/or medical device industry.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical teams and complex cross-functional programs.
Technical and leadership capabilities
- Strong knowledge of process development, technology transfer, and manufacturing lifecycle management.
- Understanding of risk management for microbiologically sensitive processes.
- Strong industrial, technical development, and project management capabilities.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical and/or medical device standards.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to translate long-term objectives into actionable priorities.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making capabilities.
- Proven ability to lead both directly and through influence in a matrixed environment.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence, align, and engage executive, technical, and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Fluent in both English and French
What you will bring
- You combine strategic vision with strong technical expertise and operational leadership.
- You are comfortable navigating complexity, setting priorities, and making decisions in a highly regulated and matrixed environment.
- As an inclusive and influential leader, you know how to engage teams, build effective partnerships, and bring stakeholders together around a shared direction.
- You can move seamlessly between long-term strategy and operational delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality, compliance, safety, and business performance.
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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