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Job DescriptionAs China (Senior-) Precision Medicine Operation Manager, you will provide operational expertise to consistently implement the operational delivery of Precision Medicine strategies of clinical trials conducted in China, ensuring timely delivery of testing lab readiness, quality data and audit readiness at all times. You will be responsible for ensuring the appropriate level of sample and assay quality, defining corrective actions if necessary, and escalating issues when appropriate.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide operational expertise to implement clinical biomarker and diagnostic strategies within clinical trials in China, ensuring timeline and audit readiness.
- Ensure appropriate sample and assay quality, define corrective actions for study issues, and escalate issues as necessary.
- Accountable for sample management strategy deployment and manage key activities with laboratory partners, including technical qualification, sample analysis plans, validations, and analytical reports.
- Ensure all activities are completed within time, quality, and budget requirements, aligned with agreed sample and assay management strategy.
- Provide regular study-level status updates for areas of accountability/responsibility to key stakeholders.
- Provide expert input into Clinical Trial documentation, including Protocols, Informed Consent Forms, data transfer agreements, lab manuals, and lab specifications.
- Proactively identify challenges across the sample, assay, and data operations space impacting the delivery of China Precision Medicine strategy.
- Create and deliver solutions for simplifying sample, assay and data operations practices to increase productivity, maximize value, and remove redundant activities.
- Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures relating to HGRAC regulation, Human Subject Research, Individual Human Data, and good data practices.
- Contribute to functional process and system improvements to ensure operational excellence.
- Support other activities as required.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a science or health-related discipline.
- Experience in clinical trial specimen management, including collection/processing of diverse sample types, laboratory management, LIMS, and project management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the clinical development process, GxP, and global and China-specific regulatory requirements for sample analysis, including sample exportation.
- Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, and matrix working skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work independently, as well as a highly motivated team player with a proactive attitude and ability to interact effectively within a multi-disciplinary team, including internal and external technical and business experts.
- Demonstrated attention to detail.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with managing the generation and flow of high-dimensional biomarker datatypes (e.g., IHC, imaging, NGS, proteomics).
- Experience with validation and implementation of biomarkers.
- Experience with clinical biomarker and diagnostic development.
- Good understanding of scientific R&D processes.
- Familiarity/knowledge of data governance and privacy considerations regarding the use and re-use of human subject data.
- Experience in clinical data management, quality, and governance, or external collaborative engagements.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in a science or health-related discipline.
- Experience in clinical trial specimen management, including collection/processing of diverse sample types, laboratory management, LIMS, and project management.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the clinical development process, GxP, and global and China-specific regulatory requirements for sample analysis, including sample exportation.
- Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, and matrix working skills.
- Self-motivated with ability to work independently and as a team player; proactive and able to interact across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Demonstrated attention to detail.
- Master's degree, or equivalent experience.
- Experience managing generation and flow of high-dimensional biomarker datatypes (e.g., IHC, imaging, NGS, proteomics).
- Experience with validation and implementation of biomarkers.
- Experience with clinical biomarker and diagnostic development.
- Good understanding of scientific R&D processes.
- Familiarity/knowledge of data governance and privacy considerations regarding use and re-use of human subject data.
- Experience in clinical data management, quality, and governance, or external collaborative engagements.
AbbVie Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs are portrayed as a standout, with a dollar‑for‑dollar 401(k) match up to 6% and an additional annual company contribution based on age and service. Feedback suggests this materially boosts perceived total compensation for many U.S. employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental and caregiver leave are emphasized, including up to 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents and 4 weeks of paid caregiver leave in the U.S. Feedback suggests these policies are a meaningful differentiator for employees balancing family needs.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as extensive, with tiered vacation that scales with tenure, 17 company holidays, and two paid volunteer days in the U.S. Feedback suggests the breadth of leave contributes notably to overall benefits satisfaction.
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What We Do
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on creating medicines and solutions that put impact first — for patients, communities, and our world. We aim to address complex health issues and enhance people's lives through our core therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, aesthetics and other areas of unmet need.
