Job Title
Manager Supplier Quality
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career of which you dream.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
We currently have an opening for a Manager Supplier Quality for the Vascular division. This role can be located at our St. Paul, MN location. This is a fully onsite role.
Abbott Vascular provides innovative, minimally invasive and cost-effective products for treatment of vascular disease. Our extensive portfolio includes drug-eluting stents, bare metal stents, guide wires, balloon dilatation catheters, imaging catheters and software, vessel closure devices and peripheral stents.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE
Manages the development and administration of departmental activities of Supplier Assurance while maintaining compliance to, and driving continuous improvement of, related quality assurance programs, policies, process, procedures and controls. Manages the Supplier Quality Engineering operations.
MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES
- Define and communicate overall vision and cascaded objectives for the departments.
- Staff, train, develop and manage employees.
- Assess and manage all resource needs within the department.
- Manage all activities related to Supplier Quality Engineering in accordance to policy, including supplier selection and evaluation, material qualification, inspection procedure development, supplier corrective action, supplier assessments, supplier performance reviews and supplier development.
- Lead employees in driving continuous improvement in department processes and establishing departmental objectives to meet divisional goals.
- Develop and maintain department operating budgets.
- Manage expenses to within budget, while meeting established objectives.
- Define, justify, acquire and implement inspection test equipment to meet specified needs.
- Re-deploy employees as priorities change to meet Division objectives.
- Develop, train, implement and continuously approve upon department policies and procedures.
- Ensure departmental compliance with Division SOPs and procedures.
- Ensure timely and thorough review of product/process changes.
- Provide routine communications with department employees to assure awareness.
- Provide timely performance & developmental evaluations of departmental staff.
- Assess and develop employee skillsets to assure effective support.
- Work cross functionally in identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Provide routine department objectives and performance metrics reporting to management as defined.
- Hires and retains a diverse, highly qualified staff and provides ongoing performance feedback. Maintains a safe and professional work environment.
- Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
- Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING:
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience related to supplied product quality within an FDA/ISO certified environment.
- Strong leadership skills to motivate and enable department employees in meeting objectives.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in departmental budgeting and supervision/training/managing staff.
- Experience with computers and software application knowledge consistent with engineering environments.
- Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross division business unit model preferred.
- Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment.
- Strong leadership skills, including the ability to set goals and provide positive and constructive feedback respectfully to build positive relationships and improve business results.
- Ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
- Multi-tasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner.
- Strong organizational, planning, and follow-up skills and ability to hold others accountable.
- Ability to travel approximately 5-25%, including internationally.
Preferred:
- Third Party Manufacturing (TPM) experience
- Previous leadership or people management experience.
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