IT Finance Transformation - Program Manager

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. 

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative business technology team. As an IT Finance Transformation Program Manager in AbbVie Business Technology Solutions (BTS), you’ll have opportunities to contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharma company, helping to create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better

The Program Manager, IT Finance Transformation is responsible for the successful execution of a complex program to implement AbbVie’s Finance Transformation Program.  The initial focus of the program is designing a modern, streamlined, and scalable architecture which removes duplicity, allows for standardization, and enables ease of use for the Finance community. This involves all facets of project leadership and delivery, including:  planning, delivery (process, issue, risk and change management), relationship management, team leadership, and governance compliance.

Responsibilities

•Lead all aspects of the project life cycle, working with team members, project sponsor/key stakeholders, to oversee all phases of project completion.

•Manage overall project health and project visibility in alignment with organization’s goals.

•Establish key project relationships with work stream leads and sponsors.

•Responsible managing project work plan, project health, and integration across project work streams, negotiating and facilitating changes as necessary for AbbVie.

•Develop, execute and manage IT projects within the defined scope. Expedite, manage and coordinate a multitude of interrelated IT project activities within the constraints of human and financial resources and changing priorities to ensure the successful completion of projects.

•Facilitate coordination of all operational checkpoint activities and requirements throughout the project lifecycle with project sponsor and project team.

•Assess, monitor and mitigate/resolve priority project issues and risks as they are encountered (i.e., execution risk, business risk, technology risk and people risk), escalating issues appropriately and tracking resolution.

•Develop and facilitate communication plan implementation to actively engage all stakeholders (those leading and impacted by project results) and maintain visible strategic alignment

•Partner with business lead, workstream leads and key stakeholders to confirm project success criteria, leverage resources, manage change and mitigate/ manage project risk throughout project life cycle. 

•Create and manage holistic program plan and schedule to align technical, process, data and organizational change management work.  Partner with project lead in managing external solution integrator. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience.
• Experience in project management, business systems analysis, software development or deployment, managing projects.

• Experience successfully planning and managing highly complex and large scale enterprise based programs/projects

• Strong leadership competence, with proven skills in managing change, critical thinking/reasoning

• Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence

• Proven communication skills; both written and verbal with technical and non-technical staff and all levels of management

Why Business Technology Solutions
For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we’re ready for you

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

• 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. ​

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. 

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.