QA System Integration Manager (3 years contract)

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The QA System Integration Manager is responsible for leading the integration and execution of Quality Management System (QMS) elements across Abbott Nutrition Manufacturing site, with a primary focus on procedures, processes, systems, and people enablement. This role serves as a key driver of Quality System integration initiatives associated with integration of a non-Abbott manufacturing facility into an Abbott Manufacturing facility. The position ensures Quality System changes are effectively designed, approved, deployed, and embedded in operations in a sustainable and inspection-ready manner.

What You'll Do:

Quality System & Procedure Integration

• Lead the end-to-end integration and harmonization of Quality System procedures, processes, and supporting systems across sites and functions.
• Oversee the development, revision, approval, and deployment of SOPs and controlled documents aligned with enterprise QMS standards.
• Ensure procedural changes are translated into clear operational practices and role-based expectations.
• Partner with Quality System Owners to define current-state gaps and future-state Quality System architectures.
• Serve as the execution owner for Quality System procedure changes, ensuring documents are not only updated, but embedded through training, adoption verification, and sustained operational use

Program & Execution Leadership

• Lead execution of assigned Quality System integration workstreams within larger integration programs
• Translate enterprise quality strategies and regulatory commitments into executable integration plans with defined deliverables and timelines.
• Maintain integrated workplans, dependency tracking, and issue management across Quality System workstreams.

Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as a point of coordination for Quality System integration across Quality, Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, IT, Regulatory, and Training.
• Influence and align stakeholders without direct authority, including site and functional leadership.
• Drive alignment between procedural changes and enabling systems, tools, and workflows.

Change Management & Adoption

• Lead change management for Quality System updates, ensuring impacted users understand what is changing, why, and how to comply.
• Partner with training teams to ensure role-based training, readiness, and effectiveness checks are completed.
• Monitor adoption and effectiveness of Quality System changes and escalate sustainability risks.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Ensure Quality System integration activities meet regulatory and internal compliance expectations.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks related to procedure changes, process transitions, and system cutovers.
• Support inspection readiness and audits related to Quality System integration.
• Escalate risks, scope impacts, and timeline concerns to the Integration Project Manager to support program‑level decision‑making.

Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Track and report progress, risks, and outcomes of Quality System integration efforts.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and improvement opportunities.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Quality System governance and deployment practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical, scientific, engineering, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• 8–10+ years of experience across Quality Assurance, Quality Systems, Manufacturing/Operations, and/or Program Management.
• Demonstrated experience leading procedure changes and Quality System implementation in regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Management Systems and regulatory expectations.
• Experience as a Quality System Owner or Process Owner.
• Experience supporting regulatory inspections, audits, or Quality System transformations.
• Experience in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, or nutrition.
• Quality System integration and lifecycle thinking; procedure and process governance experience
• Program execution, dependency management, change management experience
• Strong stakeholder influencing/management skilss
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage ambiguity and complexity
• High accountability and bias for execution

This is a 3-years fixed term contract opportunity.

Location:

This position is based in Waikato District > Pokeno.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

     

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Project Management

     

DIVISION:

ANSC Nutrition Supply Chain

        

LOCATION:

New Zealand > Waikato: Pokeno Plant

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)