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. 

Enable Commercialization of NPI’s, Portfolio Management of On Market Support projects and provides Project Management expertise across the CAD Organization. Develop, implement and lead NPI program from R&D handover to final launch and commercialization. Lead strategic product support programs in order to ensure robustness of supply, quality products, and appropriate levels of customer service, while minimizing costs and maximizing benefits to AbbVie. Keep upper management informed as to the status of projects, integrate change as applicable and recommend value-added alternatives.  Drive integration of cross-functional organizations to deliver an integrated technical solution.  

Primary Function: 

• To manage the execution of project(s) across the PDS&T organization, Franchise Organizations, and Third-Party Suppliers.
• Coordinate global project teams to perform NPI program management, technical transfers of products, product maintenance and global launches of new combination device and device programs.
• To carry out and implement process improvement initiatives.
• Manage execution of tasks and co-ordination of projects in both remote and office-based settings.
• Open to lead activities across different time zones and be flexible to be available, as appropriate to align with other time zones.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop realistic cross functional project implementation plans with input from other functions, e.g., R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Regulatory, and Commercial.
• Utilize the relevant PM tools for project planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Maintain project budgets and timelines.
• Set project milestones and report progress accordingly. Consider alternative approaches and take corrective action as needed to ensure project milestones are achieved.
• Provide project management support for and guide the efforts of third-party organizations (vendors, suppliers, contractors, etc.) to enable achievement of shared milestones.
• Fulfil management role in terms of organizing project teams, facilitating communication between resources, guiding technical, financial, business and personnel conflict resolution and monitoring budget administration.
• Identify and implement opportunities that will improve AbbVie's ability to implement and deliver quality products in a cost effective, compliant, and timely manner.
• Support the development of the Program Management process for the PDS&T organization. The Employee will perform duties appropriate to this position as instructed by the Company. He / she will be required to be flexible and to undertake any such additional or alternative duties as the Company shall reasonably assign to the Employee from time to time. The Company also has the right to ask the employee to move to another work location without seeing consent at the time of the transfer.

EHS Responsibilities:

• Comply with the EHS policy and procedures and demonstrate EHS best practices in all work activities.
• Continually be conscious of your own safety and that of others, always complying with safety notices and barriers.
• Report any EHS incidents and/or Near Misses (unsafe acts and conditions) immediately to your supervisor and always raise the event in eAchieve;
• Support a culture of EHS excellence by recognizing and submitting opportunities for EHS improvement on eAchieve;
• Attend all required EHS training and medical surveillance programs.
• Wear PPE as required.

• Degree in Engineering / Science or related discipline.
• 12+ years of diversified business experience, including operations support/quality at plant level for medical products and/or medical devices, supply chain, validations, capital and expense management, and commercial product launches.
• 5+ years of medical device and pharma experience 
• Knowledge of medical device, pharmaceutical industry (or Combination products)  
• Knowledge of good R&D practices and design control
• High level of competence with all Microsoft packages including Microsoft Project

Preferred:

• Advanced business degree 
• PMI certification 
• Green Belt or Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma

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. ​

​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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