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Senior Coordinator, Clinical Supply

AbbVie
Remote friendly (North Chicago, IL)
United States
Operations

Role Summary

Serves as the primary contract for project management of key Clinical Supply Chain documentation, tasks, and packaging activities in a GMP environment. Owns readiness activities for clinical supply packaging operations and the inventory management system setup required to drive packaging operations.

Responsibilities

  • Ensures system set up components are available on time to support Clinical Packaging Production as needed. Owns design, creation, and approval processes for inventory management system activities
  • Identify and lead opportunities for process improvements within and cross functions. Responsible for creating and maintaining processes and procedures related to group activities.
  • Extract job specific information from planning system to independently create protocol-specific packaging work orders. Serves as primary representative for packaging job readiness in all packaging operations meetings.
  • Provide support for pre-approval access and investigator-initiated studies.
  • Act as a key interface between project management group, packaging operations, and QA, influencing when needed to ensure packaging activities are set up appropriately and efficiently
  • Identifies, develops, communicates and tracks task completion dates, activities, logistics, and milestones in support of CSPMs to ensure the timely availability of investigational drug supplies.
  • Serves as trainer to newer team members for all job responsibilities. Develop and maintain up-to-date Training Module for Center of Excellence. Review and update training matrix for all departmental employees as required.
  • Translates stability and pre-packaging requests into an executed packaging design. Owns complete process from system set-up, to work order requests, to material transfers, as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in the Life or Physical Sciences preferred. Will consider Business Administration, Math or Engineering with appropriate work experience.
  • 3-5 total years of Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology industry or equivalent experience preferred.
  • Must possess a thorough understanding of the overall clinical drug supply chain in a global operating enterprise.
  • Must possess knowledge of regulations and standard affecting pharmaceutical products (i.e., CFR210/211, cGMP, etc.).
  • Must have excellent problem solving and logical reasoning skills.
  • Proactive approach to problem solving, thinking outside of the box, and ability to identify creative solutions to unique problems.
  • Must be prepared to continually recognize the needs of Materials Management customers, prioritize as necessary, and trouble shoot abnormal or challenging situations.
  • Proficient with standard computer software. Must be able to effectively manage multiple projects at one time.
  • Strong Project Management skills.
  • Strong communication skills (both written and oral). Ability to work independently or with a group.

Skills

  • Problem solving and logical reasoning skills
  • Proactive, creative problem solving
  • Strong project management
  • Strong written and oral communication
  • Ability to work independently or in a team
  • Proficiency with standard computer software
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously