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At Abbott, you will play a crucial role to help people live more fully at all stages of their lives. Abbott is a global healthcare leader and our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritional products and branded generic medicines. Our 113,000 colleagues have a daily impact on the life of people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott Ireland

In Ireland, Abbott employs over 6,000 people across ten sites. We currently have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott also has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been making a difference in the lives of Irish people since 1946.

Vascular Division Clonmel

Abbott Vascular is one of the world's leading vascular care businesses. Abbott Vascular Clonmel is uniquely focused on advancing the treatment of vascular disease and improving patient care by combining the latest medical device innovations with world-class pharmaceuticals, investing in research and development and advancing medicine through training and education. Our broad line of vascular devices Manufactured in Clonmel includes vessel closure, endovascular and coronary technologies–These devices are designed to treat heart attack, stroke, critical limb ischemia and other serious vascular conditions.

Abbott Vascular Clonmel is the largest Abbott Manufacturing facility in Ireland focusing on both manufacturing and research and development of next generation vascular products.

Purpose Statement:

Compliance Manager is responsible for maintaining the Clonmel activities as part of the internal audit programme to effectively assess and report on the business units compliance status relative to defined quality system requirements. Primary responsibilities include planning activities needed to assess the status of the quality system, organising resources appropriate to execute the identified plan, approving documentation of the assessment results and corrective action taken, and reporting the status results to management. You will also support the quality system by taking action to align activities with corporate compliance objectives, by facilitating inspections with outside regulatory agencies, and by other tasks as assigned by management.

Key Responsibilities:

1.     Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialists and/or supervisory staff who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments. May supervise non-exempt employees.

2.     Keeps the organisations vision and values at the forefront of decision making and action.

3.    Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organisational objectives.

4.    Assists in creation of quality tools and training materials by understanding the limitations of existing quality tools and training materials and by helping to identify more effective tools and materials.

5.    Monitors compliance with company policies and procedures (for example (e.g.) compliance with Food and Drug Administration (FDA), British Standards Institution (BSI), Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) regulations, etcetera (etc.)).

6.    Makes decisions regarding work processes or operational plans and schedules in order to achieve department objectives.

7.     Develops, monitors and appropriately adjusts the annual budget for department(s).

8.     Communicates to management the compliance status of the business units quality system through the quality systems review meetings.

9. Facilitates inspections of the business unit by outside regulatory agencies, including any required responses.

10. Establish and maintain effective structures to ensure consistent implementation of the quality system for Abbott Vascular (AV) Clonmel as the site of legal manufacture.

Job skills and Education:

1.     (Experience/Education) National Framework of Qualifications (NFQ) level 7 qualification in a relevant discipline.

6+ years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

2.     Set Vision & Strategy: Identifies and acts upon trends that can impact the business. Creates and communicates a motivating compelling vision of the future that supports employee engagement. Develops short and long-term strategies and helps align the resources to achieve them. Translates strategies into actionable goals and plans, and then communicates them to ensure alignment of effort and purpose.

3.     Anticipate: Develops scenario and contingency plans that ensure achievement of results under changing conditions and situations. Takes initiative to implements change before others. Actively gathers customer inputs in order to anticipate and fulfil their needs and requirements. Manages internal/external stakeholders to

identify and address issues. Understands the situation or audience and adjusts approach to achieve desired outcomes.

4.     Innovate: Creates an environment of experimentation and uses failure as an opportunity to learn and take alternate action. Challenges current thinking: generates new ideas and expects others to do the same. Integrates information from multiple sources to generate unique insights or new solutions that distinguish

Abbott from the competition. Leverages diversity of people and thinking to create a competitive advantage. Collaborates across boundaries to create cross-business opportunities.

5.    Build: Creates a sustainable infrastructure and environment that enables growth. Maintains leadership presence and emotional control in difficult situations. Provides the insight, knowledge and leadership to improve functional are and builds the business. Develops, rewards and shares talent; is the type of leader others want to work with or for. Provides accurate, frequent and constructive feedback to subordinates , peers and leaders. Makes the difficult people, financial and business decisions in a timely manner.

6.    Deliver Results: Displays continuous energy, intensity and persistence to drive the organisation forward. Delivers what is promised; holds self and others accountable for results, commitments and behaviours. Takes appropriate accountability for failure; does not blame others. Takes action in a timely manner, with urgency or caution as appropriate, but always in a planned way. Balances short and long-term priorities and maximises the opportunities for both. Addresses organisational or cultural barriers that could prevent success.

7. Supervision Received: Work is performed without appreciable direction. Exercises considerable latitude in determining technical

objectives of assignment. Completed work is reviewed from a relatively long-term perspective, for desired results.

8. Supervision Provided: Provides direction and guidance to exempt specialist and/or supervisory personnel who exercise significant latitude and independence in their assignments; evaluates performance of and assists in career development planning for subordinates often responsible for a centralised staff or professional function of the company .