Director, Global Portfolio Management

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

The Director, Global Portfolio Management reports through Pharmacovigilance and Patient Safety, Epidemiology, and R&D Quality Assurance (PSEQ) and is responsible for driving high-impact, cross-functional projects across PSEQ stakeholders. Candidates have experience in driving large and small-scale transformations from strategy through execution, with measurable impact. Specific responsibilities include:

Responsibilities:

• Partners hand-in-hand with business stakeholders to lead the assessment, design, and implementation of complex, cross-functional, projects


• Leads the approach and solutioning of projects including structuring ambiguous problems issues, designing analysis, formulating project approach, and driving team


• Leads project team meetings effectively. Uses the project governance process to effectively escalate and drive resolution of project issues. Demonstrates effective group facilitation skills and ability to drive consensus among team members regarding process changes.


• Collaborates effectively with management, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and team members inside and outside of PPT to design and implement cross-functional solutions.


• Develops effective working relationships with project team members. Communicates (oral and written) and interacts effectively with project sponsors, and shares information regarding projects concisely and effectively to project stakeholders.


• Leads by influence, developing ideas from concept to execution; positively influences project team members and outcomes without direct authority.


• Implements a “no-churn” project management approach for initiatives; develops project plans in support of the project management approach.


• Prepares status reports and dashboards using standard templates. Tracks risks and mitigation plans; tracks issues and facilitates resolution.


• Facilitates business teams to develop current state and future state process models.


• Drives deliverable preparation and owns individual deliverables (process or analytical models, compliance documentation, presentation materials, etc.)

 

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

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience driving transformation programs from strategy through implementation across a range of business topics (e.g., capability development, operating model transformation, change management, process improvement).


• 3+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (either consulting or with a pharmaceutical organization) in a variety of business or project roles (research and development, commercial, project management, operations)


• Project leadership capabilities including strategic problem solving, change management, senior and junior level stakeholder management, project management best practices.


• Excellent communication skills both written and oral


• Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry


• Preferred: Business / strategy consulting background

 

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