Director, Strategic Initiatives

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Purpose

Provides the strategic plan and drives global, complex, cross-functional process and productivity improvement projects for Development that support the organization’s strategic objectives. Also, partners with the Project Lead to drive cross-functional Team effectiveness and drives strategic input on the implementation for process improvement initiatives for Development ensuring aligned execution. Will have both direct and indirect reports

Responsibilities

• 1. Establishes and implements improvement methodologies and techniques to be used, governance structure, project management structure and progress reporting
• 2. Develop and assess integrated project plans, resource projections, risk plans, and effectiveness metrics for each initiative.
• 3. Accountable for helping team navigate the change management process effectively and efficiently
• 4. Providing program management leadership across a complex program of projects with a large global implementation. This role will be integral in setting and ensuring alignment across a set of integrated initiatives and ensuring alignment with the longer term program strategy.
• 5. This position is responsible for problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans at a global level
• 6. Actively shares learning and collaborates with other Initiative PMs to apply best practices to supported teams.
• 7. Supports high performing project teams through monitoring and assessing the team’s performance
• 8. This is the second level position (of 2 levels) within a job family which responsible for overseeing the management of projects that are cross-functional and cross-divisional, highly complex, have high impact and are top priority for the organization
• 9. This position will report into a director level and will have direct and indirect reports. Partners with the Director to mentor and guide more junior roles in the team.

• Bachelor’s degree (or ex-US equivalent) is required, typically in nursing or scientific field. An Associate’s degree/R.N. (or ex-US equivalent) with relevant experience is acceptable
• 10+ years of experience within corporate strategy or consulting, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of roles associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations) Minimum of 3 years supporting cross-functional teams in a core function (Program Management, Development, Regulatory, Operations)
• Developing strategic thinking and leadership skills
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Growing knowledge of program management practices, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry
   
• Preferred: Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry Demonstration of successful coaching/ mentoring and people management and setting and driving strategy and leading a global team
• PMP, Change management, Lean Six Sigma or process improvement experience desirable

Key Stakeholders 

Clinical Operations, Pharmaceutical Development, Drug Development Project Management, RQA, IT

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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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