Program Manager or Senior Program Manager, CMC Portfolio Management

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 Program Manager/Senior Program Manager, CMC Portfolio Management will provide end-to-end strategic portfolio leadership with a focus on proactive identification of acceleration opportunities and/or roadblocks to enable cross-functional teams to achieve key asset milestones.  The Program Manager/Sr. Program Manager will provide timeline/scenario planning and program management support to Product, Presentation, Device Strategy (PPDS) teams for Pre-clinical and early/mid-stage development programs across multiple modalities (small molecule, biologics, ADCs, cell/gene therapy).  Excellent program management/communication skills and strong expertise of PM tools (MS Project, Timeline Pro, etc.) are essential for success in this role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide Program Management (PM) support for one or more Product Presentation and Device Strategy Teams (PPDSTs).
  • Serve as a key business partner in developing core strategies and delivering goals of asset teams
  • Coordinate PPDST/CMC activities and deliverables and supports the PPDST leader(s) in driving cross-functional alignment good decision-making practices
  • Proactively identify challenges or potential issues for execution, both within PPDST and partnering with asset PM cross-functionally, managing or escalating as appropriate
  • Partner with project planners to ensure appropriate and accurate tracking and reporting of team deliverable timelines. Maintain operational awareness of the PPDST deliverables and upcoming needs.
  • Partner with PPDST core members and strategic partners to proactively identify, communicate and manage team risks, including escalation as appropriate for asset level risks
  • Operates with a strategic, cross-functional mindset.
  • Proactively seek learnings from other teams and share best practices
• May provide supervisory management of CMC Portfolio Management junior staff
  • Foster and sustain a challenging, inclusive, and rewarding work environment where talent is developed and diversity valued.

• Program Manager
  • Bachelor’s degree required in a technical or scientific related discipline and 6+ years professional work experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry in at least one role/functional area associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations); or Master’s degree with 4+ years of work experience; or Doctorate degree with 2+ years of work experience in same disciplines.
• Senior Program Manager
  • Bachelor’s degree required in a technical or scientific related discipline and 8+ years professional work experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry in at least one role/functional area associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations); or Master’s degree with 6+ years of work experience; or Doctorate degree with 4+ years of work experience in same disciplines.
  • 1+ years Program Management experience leading cross-functional teams
• Experience within the Small Molecule Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) drug development space is strongly preferred.
• Strong program management skills and knowledge of program management practices and common tools used in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Excellent communication skills – both written and oral.
• Excellent strategic thinking and leadership skills.
• Accreditation in a project management or process improvement discipline preferred (e.g. Project Management Professional, LEAN Six Sigma, etc.).

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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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