Associate Director, Digital Manufacturing Solutions & Strategies

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Purpose
Our diverse Global Digital Strategy team is looking to hire an Associate Director to lead the development of AbbVie manufacturing sites' digital strategies that support business goals across the manufacturing network. The position will also impact and influence other sites with varying manufacturing modalities.

This role will also provide leadership to develop enterprise technology strategies, including the rollout of new solutions to support business goals for AbbVie’s manufacturing network. You may also have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain.

Responsibilities 

• Strategy & Influence: Work with multiple sites to make significant contributions to their strategy development. Develop, adapt, and execute strategies to achieve key objectives.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: Makes significant contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements.
• Make decisions that affect AbbVie’s financial, employee, and/ or public relations posture.
• Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/ or technology senior leadership and vice presidents. Interacts well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Culture: Consistently demonstrate AbbVie's Ways of Working and Leadership
• Attributes include an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies. This role is accountable for the performance and results of strategically important projects and programs.
• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives. Collaborates with key stakeholders of a site's Digital Strategy, including Global BTS, Factory of the Future, Lab of the Future, Regional Directors, and any other relevant party.
• Guidance and leadership of site and/or network Digital Transformation activities, ensuring the adoption and nurturing of a culture of continuous improvement, are demonstrated in both business processes and personnel development.
• People Management: Managing a team of direct employees or contractors within multiple business and/or technology domains may be required.
• Resource Management: Responsible for making significant contributions to developing resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domains.
• Impact: Make decisions that affect AbbVie’s financial, employee, and/or public relations posture.

• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate science, engineering, or business discipline is required. Master's degree in relevant industry discipline preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industry, with relevant managerial experience plus experience in executing strategic business projects.
• 3+ years’ experience working in an IT/OT environment with direct manufacturing exposure
• 3+ years of demonstrated project management skills, including delivering projects on schedule, within budget, and meeting the predefined quality requirements.
• 3+ years of direct people management experience at management level.
• Strong strategy development and planning skills coupled with necessary knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing activities.
• Effectively connects employee and ME&C functional goals to business and/ or AbbVie goals.
• Thought leader within multiple technology and/ or business domains.
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/ or relevant business domain preferred.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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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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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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