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Company Description

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 XFacebookInstagramYouTubeLinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Global Site Contracting (GSC) Program Management is responsible for providing direction, support, program/project management, oversight, and reporting to the GSC staff and leadership team, in relation to strategic initiatives that support the GSC organization. Managed initiatives may include process and continuous improvement, communications, metrics and dashboards, tracking and reporting of goals and objectives, organizational transformation, and ad hoc priorities supporting site contracting and budgeting, and other Clinical Development Operations (CDO) priorities. This role reports into Director II, Site Contracting Global Operations, and directly supports Sr. Director - GSC in ensuring key projects remain on time, on budget and tracking to success.

  • Centrally leads high priority/profile strategic initiatives for the organization;
  • Directly oversees program management governance which includes tracking, reporting, issue escalation, communication with management and stakeholders, and enables continuous process improvements.
  • Maintains subject matter expertise across stakeholder groups to provide input, guidance, oversight, and tracking/reporting of imperatives and projects.
  • Influences and strategically manages the linkages across GSC and partner areas, including R&D, Legal, Finance, Quality and OEC, to drive the successful implementation of R&D initiatives.
  • Independently manages expectations and mitigates risk by providing strategic solutions and decision making for the function.
  • Works with the GSC leadership team to establish and maintain key performance indicators and metrics.
  • Identifies and secures project resources/direct report staff, delegates responsibilities and authority on the basis of skills and effectiveness.

**This is an on-site position based in Lake County, IL or Irvine, CA

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification required; advanced degree or a health care, scientific, legal or business background preferred;
  • Broad experience (8+ years) within the pharmaceutical industry. Good knowledge and understanding of clinical research, including topics pertaining to contracting, site relations and internal project execution.
  • Experience leading cross-functional interactions and working within a global environment; Substantial previous project management experience preferred, including management of large complex programs and cross-functional teams
  • Requires excellent relationship management and communication skills, seasoned judgment, tact, and the ability to work effectively with personnel at varying levels within the organization;
  • Effective in driving process improvement initiatives
  • Must have extensive experience conceiving, creating, and delivering business presentations to senior management; strong conflict resolution and problem-solving skills; strong organizational skills with a focus on details
  • Relevant experience in budget and financial management, contracts, process improvements, and/or compliance;
  • Ability to build internal and external relationships to effectively and independently provide leadership across the wider team, to strategically drive the business and solve issues efficiently and to mitigate risk.

 

Additional Information

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 an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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