Strategic Project Lead, Intercontinental

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.

Our vision is to take our customer interactions to the next level for best-in-class engagement and optimized patient care. The Strategic Project Lead for Intercontinental will prioritize moving the Customer Excellence team forward. Leading efforts to innovate our processes, enhance our culture, and lead strategic projects that drive business results. 

Responsibilities:

Lead multiple medium-to-large projects throughout the entire Project Development Life Cycle. 

Establish and maintain project plans, budgets, risk assessments, and progress reports. 

Collaborate with cross-functional teams on task assignments, deliverables, and scheduling. 

Contribute to strategic discussions with project sponsors, stakeholders, and leadership. 

Assist in resource utilization for project planning activities. 

Manage day-to-day project progress and communication. 

Track critical steps, outcomes, and final deliverables for project management reporting. 

Collect and consolidate data/reports to track performance against goals and strategy. 

Partner with intercontinental Commercial leaders to standardize processes and governance. 

Identify pain points and design solutions for governance and operational standards. 

Support commercial leadership with project updates, reports, and budget tracking. 

Lead planning and execution of Area-led events and forums. 

Analyze culture survey data and formulate strategic initiatives to enhance low scores elements. 

Execute approved culture-related initiatives with close tracking and progress reporting. 

Conduct focus groups and conversations to evaluate culture efforts and propose solutions. 

Drive innovation across the Intercontinental Area and all therapeutic areas. 

Establish innovation training, practices, and key performance indicators. 

Partner with commercial directors to address challenges through innovative techniques. 

Collaborate with IMCO/ICEX to ensure consistency in innovation approach and tools. 

Qualifications: 

•7+ years of experience, Degree preferred: BSc or BA, Relevant work experience in biotechnology or pharmaceutical company is required 

•Experience in Omnichannel leadership or experience of Omnichannel transformation in a Multi-National Pharmaceutical Company is highly desired.  Able to build and deliver a strategic plan and model, including P&L implications 

•Impeccable integrity, work ethic and commitment; Strong Strategic to operational experience and skills; Organized, detail-oriented personality with the ability to multi-task. 

•Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and proactively, possess high degree of planning, coordination, project management skills, with demonstrated ability to problem solve. 

•Ability to produce crisp and compelling presentations that are Executive-ready and deliver presentations and engagements with Senior Level leadership. 

•Team player with strong interpersonal skills who enjoys working in a collaborative firm culture; Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functionally with partners outside of team to enable higher performance. 

•Ability to manage complex matrix environments in an enabling function. 

•Executive presence: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Excellent leadership/influencing skills; adept at managing internal stakeholders and external communications. 

•Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and proactively, possess high degree of planning, coordination, project management skills, with demonstrated ability to problem solve and resolve conflict; Learns fast, grasps the 'essence' and can change the course quickly where and when required; Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo. 

•Creates a learning environment, open to suggestions and experimentation for improvement; Intellectually curious, embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.

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. ​

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.