Pharmaceutical Technology Specialist III

AbbVie

AbbVie

IT
Westport, CT, USA
Posted on Mar 19, 2025

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

We are excited to invite application for a Pharmaceutical Technology Specialist III (Small Molecule - Eyecare) to join our Pharma Technical Operations team in AbbVie Westport, Co Mayo, on a permanent basis.

In this role, you will lead technical support activities across our small molecule products, existing eyecare (unit dose and multidose) and new product technologies. As our technical expert, you will provide strong scientific leadership for all aspects of technology transfer, process scale-up, process monitoring and process troubleshooting for active pharmaceutical ingredient products (API) and drug product commercial manufacturing activities. You will also be involved in leading cross-functional teams to support process development and technology transfer of products for clinical supply and successful regulatory approval of new product submissions.

If great benefits, a defined career path, and work-life balance are important in your next career move, then read on to find out more:

Roles and Responsibilities

  • Participate in and/or lead cross-functional teams with other functions, including R&D, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations and Validation.
  • Support process development and technology transfer of products for clinical supply and successful regulatory approval of new product submissions.
  • Provide strong scientific leadership for ongoing marketed commercial products providing technical support and expertise to troubleshoot and lead investigational enquiries where necessary.
  • Review and/or authoring of technical documents, including protocols, reports, batch manufacturing documents and CMC sections of regulatory dossiers.
  • Management of high-quality products within project timelines and on budget.
  • Clear and effective communication of ideas and results, written and verbal, to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Active contribution of functional area continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Represent Pharmaceutical Technical team on cross-functional project teams as needed.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, pharmacy, engineering or a related scientific field, an advanced degree is preferred.
  • 8+ years in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry.
  • Prior knowledge of aseptic processing is an advantage.
  • Strong knowledge of drug product manufacturing and validation, quality systems and regulatory guidelines.
  • Well-developed technical writing, organisational, communication and presentation skills required.
  • Experience acting as an individual contributor and working well in project and team-based environments.

So, are you ready to join this ambitious and diverse Technical Operations team? Apply today!

Additional Information

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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