RCI-ABBV-33174 Clinical Trials / Clinical Research / Clinical Operations Project Specialist

Location: Lake County - Onsite

Top Skills (Must-Have)

• GMP / Pharmaceutical environment experience
• Clinical trial OR pharma operations background
• Ability to work independently and drive tasks to completion
• Strong coordination, communication, and organizational skills
• Ability to learn new systems quickly

Required Experience & Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a Scientific field
• 3–5 years of relevant experience (clinical trials, pharma, or GMP environment)
• Bachelor’s: ~3 years
• Master’s: ~2 years

Preferred Backgrounds

• Clinical Trial Supply / Clinical Operations
• Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC)
• Pharma R&D or GMP operations
• Supply chain / inventory roles within pharma (secondary preference)

Contract: 1 year with possible extension - based on performance and business needs

What are the top 3-5 skills, experience or education required for this position:

• Bachelors or Masters degree with a Scientific focus
• 3-5 years of pharmaceutical experience, preferably in a clinical trial environment
• Ability to work independently and drive tasks to completion without high level of supervision

Local candidate, occasional on-site requirement

Education Requirement:

• Bachelor’s Degree required preferably in physical science, math, engineering, pharmacy or data science.
• Experience – 3-5 years total experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry.

Major Responsibilities:

• Planning, scheduling, coordination and execution, in support of clinical supply project manager to ensure the timely availability of investigational drug supplies and related services to clinical sites and depots.
• Translates stability and packaging requests into an executed packaging design.
• Identifies, develops, communicates and tracks task completion dates , activities, logistics, and milestones in support of clinical supply project manager to ensure the timely availability of investigational drug supplies
• Responsible for creating appropriate protocol specific manufacturing and packaging work orders in concert with the clinical supply project manager.
• Responsible to complete tasks identified for the team.
• Responsible for inventory management system set up activities (i.e. Material masters, manufacturing requests, etc) to support clinical packaging operations

Critical Success Factors

• A basic understanding of clinical development and global supply chain requirements.
• Competent in the application of standard business requirements (for example SOPs, Global Regulations).
• Understanding the importance of compliance in a regulated environment and be capable of applying this knowledge to daily work.
• Ability to work collaboratively within the dept as well as cross-functionally including interacting in a tactful, professional and effective manner.
• Ability to work effectively and professionally with those in the dept as well as QA, Analytical and any area interface.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Basic Project Management skills.
• Good communication skills (both written and oral).