Manager, Operations

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 Manager, Business will be part of the Product Development Science & Technology Business Operations Team.  The role is primarily responsible for managing the operational and financial aspects of one or more functional areas. The role will be to communicate and present key information to the functional head and management.  The role will assist the department management or function with the strategic design and tactical execution of Operations activities, raise issues and opportunities as appropriate.  The role will identify, plan and implement activities projects to achieve departmental strategies, goals, and objectives.  The candidate will identify, and lead efforts designed to support the development of individuals, organization and culture.

Responsibilities:

• Provide effective project management for initiatives within the department as well as cross-functionally.  Drive teams to execute defined deliverables.
• Lead teams on special projects related to the team, such as integration, harmonization, systems or culture.
• When managing or working with a cross-functional team, build relationships with others that might include Finance, Quality Assurance, Purchasing Supplier Management, and all other non-departmental functions to accomplish all objectives and responsibilities.  Global awareness and collaboration skills across multiple teams and time zones.
• Responsible for assisting with strategic design, tactical execution, and establishing strategic planning for global operations activities and projects to achieve departmental strategies, goals, and objectives.
• Participates in process improvement initiatives.
• Operate as a conduit between Finance and functional areas to ensure departments operate within the established budget.  Track actuals against plan and assist with Plan and Update Process.
• Facilitates resource planning and modeling for the department or function.
• Works with departments to ensure time tracking data is timely and accurate to support resourcing.
• Manage functional headcount tracking and LBE.

•Bachelor/Master of Science (BSc/MSc), or PhD in Science of Business-related Field, BSc with 12+ yrs MSc with 10+ yrs Ph.D. with 4+ yrs
•Team, drug development, or project management related experience.
•Basic knowledge of project management practices, portfolio review, finance, and budgeting.
•General experience working on, or leading projects.
•Experience supporting clinical research/drug development and/or regulatory/pharmacovigilance/compliance department operations.
•May only have uni-faceted, narrowly-focused experience in one function.

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. ​

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