Manager, Quality Control
About this opportunity
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 looking for a QC Manager to join our team on our Manorhamilton Road site in Sligo. The QC Lab Manager is integral to managing a team responsible for QC testing, ensuring adherence to product specifications, quality, and safety goals. This role involves overseeing laboratory operations, including analytical testing for API and OSD products, and coordinating with internal teams to meet testing schedules.
Responsibilities:
Manage a lab team performing QC testing, ensuring compliance with data integrity policies and regulatory requirements.
Conduct and supervise all aspects of API and OSD analytical testing.
Ensure timely sampling, inspection, and testing, coordinating with teams for schedules and priorities.
Participate in internal and external audits and address audit findings.
Prepare technical reports, lead investigations, and implement CAPAs.
Provide training and support to lab team to achieve daily and long-term goals.
Present technical data to stakeholders to facilitate prompt decision-making.
Report to the Senior QC Manager.
Qualifications
M.Sc./B.Sc. in Chemistry or a related discipline.
Minimum 4 years of experience in people management within a pharmaceutical lab setting.
Strong knowledge of QA/QC operations, analytical testing for API and OSD.
Excellent presentation and technical report writing skills.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a commitment to quality and compliance.
Additional Information
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Quality role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 164 comparable Manager Quality roles across 51 biopharma companies.
Salary context
44 of 164 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 164 comparable roles
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Seniority mix
164 of 164 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
0 of 164 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.