Associate Director, Business Design - Patient Services

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AbbVie Patient Services is an industry leading organization, providing unparalleled patient support, resulting in improved brand loyalty and patient satisfaction.  The Associate Director, Business Design is responsible for the progression of business strategies into business program design that enable our people, processes and technology to meet present and future needs of the patient.  This individual will work closely with key stakeholders to define the end to end business process of our patient support programs ensuring alignment of business objectives, while looking for opportunities to optimize the current state, overcome challenges, drive consistency, and efficiencies in speed to market.  

To be successful, this person will have a strong business acumen to enable collaboration across stakeholders, while leading cross functionally to support the strategy.  In addition to being highly collaborative, they must have strong written and oral communication skills, and obtain alignment from multiple key stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization.  They should be comfortable with developing relationships across a diverse spectrum of customers, while having the ability to prioritize initiatives based on key value propositions.  This role will be required to clearly evaluate, articulate and partner to drive alignment across diverse business functions given complex interdependencies, specifically Patient Engagement, Access and Reimbursement, Marketing, Enterprise Strategy, Market Analytics and Business Intelligence, Business Technology Solutions, Compliance, Legal, and vendor partners. 

Major Responsibilities:

• Translates business strategy into the assessment of appropriate processes required to launch new care models, enhance the patient experience within existing care models, and drive efficiencies in the architecture of these programs, across brands.
• Facilitates cross functional team workshops to design programs capabilities across people, process and technology in support of the patient.

• Focuses on delivering the appropriate patient/agent experience in alignment with the defined program strategy, in order to provide the patient with the right information at the right time, and through their preferred communication channel.

• Effectively works with the business to identify reporting and analytic needs associated with programs, enhancements, and/or new capabilities.  This includes working with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure the data is centralized in AbbVie’s Patient Services data layer, can be efficiently leveraged by the corresponding BI tool, and provides appropriate visibility across the organization.
• Identifies new areas of opportunity and potential benefits beyond the current organizational thinking.  This includes improvements to patient/agent interactions, improvements to reporting, analytic insights, communication across functional areas, efficiency gains, and cost savings.
• Works with department Director and management team to establish priorities and areas of focus.
• Provides tactical leadership and strategic direction for defined program operations supporting customer needs, as well as AbbVie Patient Services objectives.
• Influence and persuade across multiple external and internal constituents (stakeholders and partners) to deliver the best solutions to support patients.  Infuse AbbVie Ways of Working and Talent Philosophy in day-to-day leadership and interactions with the team.
• Continuous review of current state processes to ensure appropriate artifacts are produced for all development efforts, communication strategies are in place and creating the intended dialogue, and processes are formally adjusted as needed to drive efficiency and evolve with changing business needs.
• Leverage standard documentation to drive consistency in the approach.  Best practices will be documented through supporting SOPs and playbooks to drive consistency and facilitate onboarding of new resources.  The overall objective is to streamline processes, reduce overhead, increase effectiveness, and gain efficiencies through leading edge technology platform enablement capabilities.
• Support program development and integration efforts with our internal Business Technology Services organization, key stakeholders, and external business partners, by articulating detailed business processes and requirements as well as ensuring their understanding.

Qualifications:

• Position requires Bachelor’s degree in a related area.
• 7+ years of management experience.
• 7+ years in Enterprise/Program/Project Management experience.
• 7+ years translating business needs into solution design.
• 7+ years of Pharmaceutical Industry experience preferably, Patient Services
• Balance of business acumen, with demonstrated proficiency in application support and process efficiency.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects in a highly matrixed environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and highly capable in working with senior team members.
• Detail-oriented, efficient, and flexible with strong investigation and resolution skills.
• Ability understand and strictly follow policy, procedures, guidelines, and design solutions that adhere to compliance standards.
• Strong understanding of omni-channel platforms, CRM solutions, business intelligence environments, solution design, and development.

Key AbbVie Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to influence others in organizations who do not have reporting linkages.
• Proven ability to negotiate in order to achieve win-win business outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time and assure completion by due dates.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex and technical tasks, both written and orally.
• Demonstrated ability to manage vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects and deliver results based on tight timelines.
• Demonstrated history of developing programs that are customer-centric.
• Ability to apply strategic thinking to the overall business, and then develop tactics that best meet the strategic initiatives.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

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