Specialist, Quality Assurance

1 week ago

BasSaintLaurent, Canada ABBVIE Full time

Joining AbbVie means, you will be part of a team of outstanding professionals dedicated to making a remarkable impact on patients' lives.

At AbbVie, we conduct ground-breaking science on a global scale every day.

AbbVie Canada is one of the Best Workplaces in Canada whereby 90% of our employees are proud to say they work for AbbVie and 88% are proud of how we contribute to the community.


AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women's health, and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

When choosing your career path, choose to be remarkable.


Under the management and supervision of the Manager, Quality Assurance Compliance and Documentation the Specialist, Quality Assurance is responsible for ensuring that requirements for all activities related to the importation and the release on the Canadian market of biopharmaceutical products and medical devices distributed are in compliance with Health Canada's Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and relevant AbbVie Corporate policies.

These activities include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Maintains an indepth knowledge and understanding of current GMP and Medical Devicerelated Health Canada regulatory requirements and guidelines.
  • Ensures that release specifications are aligned with specifications filed and approved by Health Canada.
  • Handles annual and commitment stability testing requirements.
  • Handles GMPrelated annual requirements
  • Reviews and assess all changes made to GMPrelated documents such as manufacturing, packaging and testing masters, validation, etc.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manages the release of biopharmaceutical products and medical devices to the Canadian market per Health Canada requirements, including the management of retained samples and ID testing samples.
  • Manages distribution issues that may impact the release of the product.
  • Performs change impact assessments of any quality documents identified in the Canadian specification against the product submission.
  • Handles the documentation of planned deviations or exceptions report through the AbbVie CAPA system, and manages related tasks, as needed.
  • Performs impact assessments of new regulations, policies and guidelines, and manages the revision of related procedures as required.
  • Gathers and reviews stability reports and protocols to ensure these are aligned with Health Canada requirements and commitments received and approved by Health Canada under the regulatory submission(s).
  • Reviews and prepares the Canadian Annual Product Quality Reviews (APQRs), ensuring compliance with documented timelines.
  • Handles GMPrelated annual requirements
, such as import and confirmatory testing, unique ID letters, etc.

  • Handles the change control process through the AbbVie Quality Documentation system for local procedures, Canadian specifications, and other team's related documents.
  • Coordinates assigned projects and participates to adhoc task forces as needed.
  • Ensure key performance indicators (KPIs) are met

Education/Experience Required:

  • Must hold a science degree B.Sc. (e.g., Biochemistry, Biology, Microbiology, Chemistry, etc.).
  • 5 years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Quality Control in the Pharmaceutical Industry.
  • Experience in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing or Laboratory environments is preferred.
  • Developed expertise of the Canadian Food and Drugs Act and Regulations, Policies and Guidelines, and solid understanding of the Business environment, culture, products, and service areas.

Essential Skills & Abilities:

  • Team Player
  • Organizational and time management skills
  • Communication Skills (Verbal and Written) with Internal and External Customers (e.g., Health Canada, AbbVie Global)
  • Ability to work with minimum supervision
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Extensive working knowledge and understanding of the Canadian Food and Drugs Act and Regulations, its Policies and related Guidelines, specifically as these relate to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Documentation Practices (GDP) and all GxPsrelated expertise.
  • Intermediate knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
AbbVie strives to provide a French working environment for its employees in Quebec.

Although as part of its francization program has taken all reasonable steps to avoid imposing the following requirement,
advanced amount of knowledge of English / Fluency in English is an essential requirement for the position of
Quality Assurance Specialist including, but not limited to, for the following reasons:

  • English speaking employees outside the province of Quebec.
  • English speaking clients outside the province of Quebec.
  • Angl

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