Associate, Regulatory Affairs Submission Management

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

Responsibilities:

Manages low to medium 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 support to project teams providing guidance and communication of established submission processes and standards. Provides input to project publishing timelines and deliverables.

Participates in submission team meetings. Expedites, manages, and coordinates multiple concurrent interrelated activities for submission projects in the delivery of low to moderately complex published submissions within the required timelines. Anticipates obstacles and proposes 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 tasksFacilitates 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 low to moderately complex submissions. Facilitates team reviews.

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 implementation of internal process and standards documents relating to publishing and publishing deliverables.

Suggests and contributes to process improvements, including changes to software and business processes. May participate on internal project teams to update business software.

Demonstrates ability to influence without direct authority. Builds and maintains positive relationships internally and externally.• Position accountability/scope: o Supervision required o Receives project assignments from manager but has responsibility for managing own projects with oversight o Reviews project progress with manager on a regular basis with direction provided by manager o May assist with onboarding staff.

This position works a hybrid schedule (3 days in office) from the North Chicago, IL or Florham Park, NJ AbbVie headquarters. 

Significant Work Activities:

 Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hr day) is required . 

QualificationsRequired Education:

Bachelor's DegreeRequired Experience:

Two years pharmaceutical or industry related experiencePreferred experience: Publishing related software tools e.g. Documentum, eCTDXPress/ISIPublisher, ISI Toolbox/DocuBridge/Insight platform, Adobe Acrobat.

NOTE:

Higher education may compensate for years of experience. Years of experience may also compensate for lower educationAdditional Information​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. ​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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.htmlUS & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html