Associate Director, Environmental Health & Safety (Product Stewardship)

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

This position is responsible for managing the development, implementation, maintenance, and global oversight of environmental sustainability programs within the scope of responsibility.  This individual will take action to lead on Commercial Environmental Sustainability with a focus on Product Stewardship.

Responsibilities:

• Develop Global EHS standards, policies, systems, and lead programs associated with Commercial Environmental Sustainability and Product Stewardship.
• Provide EHS leadership and direction for management, professional, technical, and support staff for the Commercial organization with focus on tender support, extended producer responsibility support, and fleet.
• Provide EHS leadership and direction for management, professional, technical, and support staff for R&D and Product Development Science & Technology organizations with a focus on regulatory trends, product stewardship, life cycle assessment, and eco-design strategies.
• Partner with internal stakeholders from ESG, Finance, Legal, and Government Affairs to meet the requirements for emerging regulation.
• Provide business perspective, strategic and tactical direction to develop and implement environmental sustainability initiatives for the EHS Long Range Plan.
• Authority to represent AbbVie externally on matters related to environmental sustainability with external regulatory agencies and non-government organizations.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of local, regional, and global EHS regulations and practices for environmental sustainability.
• Scope of position has global reach, represents company with external organizations, prepares or contributes to sustainability related content for external reporting and disclosure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (Environmental Sciences, Sustainability Studies, EHS related, or Engineering) plus 10+ years of Environmental Sustainability related experience OR master’s degree (Environmental Sciences, Sustainability Studies, EHS related, or Engineering) plus 8-10 years of Environmental Sustainability related experience.  Environmental Sustainability related experience in Manufacturing, R&D, or Corporate environments are required.  Professional certification is preferred, but not required.
• Working experience developing and implementing Environmental Sustainability programs and managing cross functional teams.
• Ability to plan against business targets, review and approve plans developed by other areas, and balance resources to achieve key business targets and strategic plan.
• Ability to define scope and magnitude of problem, provide rapid and detailed assessment, coordinate response, present short and long-term options, and develop processes to meet business objectives.
• Ability to actively listen, build and maintain effective working relationships with internal/ external colleagues and stakeholders, and resolve conflict.
• Ability to create a motivating environment, make decisions, influence outcomes, and negotiate to achieve agreements while successfully representing Global EHS in a decision situation.
• Ability to successfully manage projects and programs.

Key Stakeholders 

• Patients, company employees, company management, cross functional teams, global regulatory authorities, and external organizations.

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​

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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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