Senior Manager, Quality Systems - Lingo (on-site)

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 you dream of
• 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

Personalized healthcare is the future. Working on Lingo, you will help build a next-generation technology that enables individuals to make decisions about how to improve energy, lose weight or enhance athletic performance. The Lingo team embodies a start-up culture and mindset with the backing of Abbott, a company with a rich history of healthcare innovation. Join us and grow your career as you help Abbott shape the future of healthcare.

We are recruiting for a Senior Manager, Quality Systems to join our team on-site in Alameda, CA.  In this role, you will ensure effectiveness of the quality system and consistent compliance to external laws, regulations, guidances and standards (LRGS). Implement and manage a structure that will facilitate a consistent implementation of quality systems. Maintain coordination between functions and increase the awareness and compliance within the quality systems processes.

• Recruit, coach and develop organizational talent.
• Foster a diverse workplace that enables all participants to contribute to their full potential in pursuit of organizational objectives.
• Create an entrepreneurial environment.
• Provide direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments.
• May manage and coach a team of quality assurance employees.
• Keep the organization's vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.
• Demonstrate effective change leadership.
• Build strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives.
• Develops and executes organizational and operational policies that affect one or more groups by utilizing technical/professional knowledge and skills.
• Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (e.g. compliance with FDA, BSI, EEO regulations, etc.).
• Make decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.
• Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).
• Coordinate the implementation of quality system requirements at Abbott Lingo.
• Assess proposed regulations and communicate new requirements to the organization.

• Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum 7 - 9 years related work experience.
• Provides direction and monitors progress of exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff toward departmental goals.
• Monitors costs of projects and of human and material resources within a department or unit.
• Monitors external environment in area of technical or professional responsibility.
• Will perform this job in a quality system environment.
• Failure to adequately perform tasks can result in noncompliance with governmental regulations.
• Develops and/or identifies new work processes and the improved utilization of human and material resources within the assigned or related functions or groups
• Investigates and solves problems that impact work processes and staff within or across units or departments.
• Communicates the departmental vision for the organizational unit assigned.

• Advanced degree
• Submission / registration types and requirements
• Effective verbal and written communication with diverse audience and team.
• Analytical thinking with good problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing and leading a team.
• Certification is a plus (such as ASQ).
• Must be able to lead and manage multiple and competing priorities and manage programs.
• Working knowledge of QSR, ISO, and EN standards. Strong working knowledge of regulatory requirements for US, EU (EU MDR), and other international geographies.
• Experience with medical device software requirements and software regulations.
• Ability to identify risk areas and escalate issues as appropriate.

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