Project Manager, Business Systems

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. 

Purpose: 

Come work as a project manager where each day you partner with inclusive and collaborative business technology teams in the Business Management Office (BMO) for the dynamic and fast-paced Aesthetics portfolio at AbbVie. You will have opportunities to contribute to one of the foremost biopharma companies and leader in the Aesthetics industry, to help create solutions that impact patients and their communities for the better.  

The Project Manager for the BMO is responsible for planning, executing, and managing cross-functional projects in a highly matrixed environment. This role will collaborate directly with project sponsors and key stakeholders, team members and management, to oversee all phases of project planning, execution and financial management, while keeping all teams and documentation in sync. 

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to new teams, technology, and business areas.  Projects will navigate across all Aesthetics businesses and Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Center of Excellence (COE). Learning curve will be short to drive business partner and technical management confidence.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly assess technical knowledge gaps in the assigned project team and prepare a plan to mitigate the gaps with minimal impact to business expectations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project resource conflicting priorities when they are assigned to multiple projects and/or have production support responsibilities. Influencing skills is critical to success. 
• Ability to collaborate with business partners to articulate business needs, develop requirements, and formulate project plans to deliver results.
• Ability to prepare and deliver presentations to key stakeholders to drive alignment and initiate understanding of technical solutions in response to evolving business needs. 
• Ability to develop and execute project communication plans, including key stakeholder, BTS leadership, and business status reporting. 
• Responsible for defining project objectives and scope, aligning requirements to the business objectives, providing estimates to the business, gaining business approval, and assembling core & extended team members.
• Project management experience using formal software lifecycle (SLC); project management methodology (PMP preferred), techniques, and tools is required.
• Must have broad experience in change management, vendor management and application analysis and design, coupled with the ability to manage simultaneous priorities and changing deadlines.
• Ability to adapt to the project execution model, e.g. waterfall, agile, use of offshore project resources, consideration of resource time zones, method of setting project vs. support priorities.
• Prepare statements of work, assuring accurate requirements, estimates, and deliverable schedules. 
• Track and report on budget allocation; manage spend through project work. 
• As a key member of BMO, act as a mentor to project managers in BTS COE towers to ensure common project management practices and standards.
• Ability to identify, document, and execute process improvement changes.

Tools and skills you will use in this role: 

Project management tools and software, including: 

• Clarity 
• Excel 
• Jira 
• Smartsheet 
• Process design to improve ways of working 

Experiences that make you a strong candidates for this role: 

Required: 

• Bachelor's Degree with 7 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; or PhD with 2 years’ experience. 
• 3-5 years of experience as a Project Manager managing software or web development projects using Agile methodologies. 
• Proven ability to maintain status for multiple active projects. 
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle and continuous improvement. 
• Previous experience managing Agile (Scrum), waterfall, and hybrid projects. 
• Ability to tailor project management processes to suit business needs and resources. 
• Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams including software engineers, QA engineers, business analysts, and product managers. 
• Strong interpersonal / relationship management skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building. 
• Strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills. 
• Shows high level of initiative and ability to work independently.
• Has critical reasoning skills including the identification and resolution of complex problems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of software management and collaboration tools, e.g.: 

• Jira 
• Confluence 
• MS Teams 

• Excel and/or Smartsheet 
• PowerPoint

Beneficial 

• Experience working in regulated businesses. 
• Experience being responsible for managing budgets on large-scale projects. 
• Sufficient technical knowledge to communicate and coordinate activities and deliverables from engineering teams. 
• Ability to provide leadership to business analysts and collaborate with customers to develop strategies and creative solutions to business challenges. 
• Excellent oral and written communication skills interacting with business and technology teams. 
   

Why Business Technology Solutions 

For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, 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. ​

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