Manager, BTS Controls

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

The Manager, BTS Controls is responsible for leading the design, development, and governance of AbbVie’s consolidated technology controls framework. This role ensures alignment with regulatory requirements, industry best practices, and corporate policies while integrating harmonized controls into the Technology Solutions Lifecycle.

You will partner with business and technology leaders to understand strategic objectives, assess compliance impacts, and identify opportunities to improve processes through technology and control optimization. This role requires strong problem-solving skills, the ability to translate complex requirements into actionable solutions, and comfort operating in a highly cross-functional environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development and ongoing maintenance of a consolidated and harmonized technology controls framework. Ensure alignment between regulatory obligations, corporate policies, industry standards, and technology delivery practices.
• Partner with business and technology teams to analyze business processes, define requirements, and identify opportunities for technology-enabled control improvements.
• Manage change control processes for technology controls and evaluate downstream impacts to systems, processes, and evidence requirements.
• Measure and report on control effectiveness; identify non-compliance and drive remediation activities. Liaise with control domain owners, regulatory stakeholders, Quality, Security, and Risk Management to ensure compliance across control environments. Integrate control requirements into the Technology Solutions Lifecycle, engineering processes, and delivery pipelines.
• Lead testing, verification, and validation of control requirements and design.
• Build strong relationships with BTS groups, business units, auditors, and technical delivery teams to ensure coordinated execution and sustained compliance.
• Provide strategic insights and recommendations to leadership to support continuous improvement and technology enablement.

Required:

• Exercises latitude in the approach to problem solving.
• Determines and develops approach and solutions to problem.

Preferred:

• Experience with IT control frameworks (COBIT, NIST, ISO 27001, SOX, etc.).
• Experience integrating controls into SDLC, Agile, or DevOps environments.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in compliance, risk management, cybersecurity, or quality/regulated environments.
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives.

Key Skills

• Technology Controls & Compliance Business Process Analysis
• Risk Assessment & Mitigation
• Requirements Elicitation & Documentation
• Change Management
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Strategic Problem Solving

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 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.​

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