AbbVie
Associate Director, Discovery Business Operations
North Chicago, IL, United States · Director
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About the role
- For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com.
- Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
- This position is responsible for facilitating strategic planning and execution within an R&D therapeutic area.
Responsibilities
- Facilitates the creation of the Business Strategy through a futuristic perspective, and defines the mission, strategic imperatives, and goals in partnership with the respective R&D leadership team. Manages the execution and measurement of the strategy.
- Partner with therapeutic area head in the financial planning process for future initiatives and projects, forecasting and roll-up.
- Provide leadership and develop strategic recommendations to departments to ensure area operates within the current financial plan/update budget.
- Partner with TA VPs to financially plan upcoming initiatives and projects. Partners with R&D finance to address all questions and requests.
- Adheres to all corporate financial guidelines, ethics and compliance standards. Leads cross departmental and cross-functional efforts to achieve functional strategies and goals.
- Prepares and delivers effective management presentations to R&D leadership team.
- Draws upon personal knowledge of business processes, global regulations, organizational improvement methods, and communication mechanisms to propose and design innovative organizational improvements.
- Coordinate and lead strategic analyses and exercises Discovery-wide and for the therapeutic area head.
- Helps to define the problem, assemble the team, perform the necessary strategic analysis, and recommend actions to the senior leaders.
- Strong management skills with proven effective leadership abilities. Demonstrated ability to lead multi-divisional and multi-functional teams with global aspects.
Nice to have
- PhD or equivalent & 4-10+ years, MS or equivalent & 6-12+ years, or BS & 8-14+ years postdoc/industry experience, including 7+ years of leadership responsibility, is required.
- Advanced degree in related scientific field preferred (e.g., MS or Ph.D. in Oncology, Chemistry, etc.).
- MBA or Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification preferred.
Benefits
- 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.
- 3-6+ years of work experience in the area supported (e.g. Discovery, Development) and 3-6+ years in pharmaceutical, healthcare or regulated industry required.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
Company info
- We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.
Equal opportunity
- Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
- US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
- US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:
- https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html
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