Senior Associate Regulatory Affairs Submission Management - Hybrid

The Senior Associate, Regulatory Affairs Submission Management, manages medium to high impact, moderately complex submission projects involving multiple cross-functional regulatory submission teams. With input from the submission teams, this individual establishes and maintains submission content planners and associated timelines, facilitates tactical submission team meetings, prepares content planners for publishing, interfaces with publishing vendor, and fulfills Submission Management functions on Project Teams in support of Development, Marketing, and post-marketing regulatory authority applications. This individual is recognized as very knowledgeable in their discipline expert and in regulatory affairs submission management.

Responsibilities:

• Manages medium to high impact (with respect to internal visibility, risk, complexity and criticality) submission projects to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality dossiers that meet technical specifications defined by regulatory authorities and can be easily navigated and reviewed by a regulatory agency.
• Acts as RA Submissions interface with project teams providing guidance and communication of established submission processes and standards. Provides input to project scope, especially as it impacts publishing timelines and deliverables.
• Plans and conducts submission team meetings. Expedites, manages, and coordinates multiple concurrent interrelated activities for submission projects and/or for multiple products in the delivery of moderately complex published submissions within the required timelines. Anticipates obstacles and develop solutions within the team.
• Coordinates submission publishing with offsite publishers/provides notification to ensure all required resources are available to meet submission timelines. Prepares content planner for publishing and works with vendor to resolve publishing issues. May perform in-house publishing tasks
• May be a technical Subject Matter Expert troubleshooting issues and providing technical systems support.
• Facilitates the creation or procurement of submission content deliverables such as cover letters and forms.
• Performs detailed quality reviews of published output to ensure compliance with Regulatory Standards and Health Authority guidances including verification of content, bookmarks, hypertext links and tables of content in moderately complex submissions. Facilitates team reviews.
• Suggests and contributes to process improvements, including changes to software and business processes. May participate on internal project teams to update business software.
• Demonstrates team leadership skills and ability to influence without direct authority. Builds and maintains positive relationships internally and externally.
• Contributes to the development of optimal business processes and standards within the department to ensure high levels of customer support and to achieve high quality submissions.
• Contributes to the creation, and implementation of internal process and standards documents relating to publishing and publishing deliverables.
• Position accountability/scope:
  • Some supervision required
  • Receives project assignments from manager but has responsibility for managing own projects with some oversight
  • Reviews project progress with manager on a regular basis with direction provided by manager
  • Trains, and mentors less experienced staff.
• This position will work a hybrid work schedule, 3 days in office & 2 days remote, from our AbbVie North Chicago, IL headquarters.

Significant Work Activities: Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree.
  • Note: Years of experience may also compensate for lower education.
  • Preferred Education: PMP and RAC certificates a plus
• Required Experience: Four years’ pharmaceutical or industry related experience with publishing related software tools e.g. Documentum, eCTDXPress/ISIPublisher, ISI Toolbox/DocuBridge/Insight platform, Adobe Acrobat.
• Preferred Experience:
  • Experience in Regulatory Affairs preferred but may consider QA, R&D/support, Scientific affairs, operations or related area
  • Experience in Regulatory Operations, including regulatory submission project management and/or submission publishing is preferred.
  • Proven leadership skills and presence
  • NOTE: Higher education may compensate for years of experience.

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. ​

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