Associate Director, Strategic Planning and Projects - Global Commercial Operations

Company DescriptionAbbVie'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.Job DescriptionThe Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer leads Commercial for the enterprise across our 5 growth areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience & eye care, specialty, and aesthetics.In support of this role, a team exists that provides strategic support, operational oversight, rewards and recognition management, project coordination, and event management for Global Commercial Operations. With the robust pipeline and strategic initiatives underway, the need to provide additional support to Global Commercial Operations is critical. To fulfill this, we are searching for a qualified Strategic Planning and Project leader to work closely with the Global Commercial Operations support team. This role will have an immediate impact by assisting in streamlining strategic initiatives, overseeing projects, and communicating objectives between groups.Reporting to Director, Strategic Projects, this position will serve as providing tactical support to Global Commercial Operations, planning and executional operational activities to ensure the vision and objectives of the Global Commercial Operations organization are achieved. This position will organize and prioritize critical issues, obtain required information, and oversight to key projects and initiatives. Additionally, this role will partner closely with the Business Units, and other extended functions as needed to provide operational and strategic support and optimize how we deliver to our strategic priorities, initiatives, and related processes.Key Responsibilities:• Partner with Global Commercial Operations support team to determine and prioritize key projects, initiatives, and related processes.• Maintains a strong understanding of AbbVie’s Commercial products and pipeline portfolio.• Oversee the collection, synthesis, and communication of relevant information that informs Global Commercial Operations strategies and projects.• Develops and delivers executive level presentations covering strategic initiatives, organizational updates, and other critical information.• Plan, coordinate and keep contents of keys meetings to ensure focused meeting cadences and outcomes.• Partners closely with other functions to ensure clarity and seamless ways of working• Effectively manage the execution of multiple projects with demanding timelines for successful delivery ensuring clarity, consistency and effectiveness of messages and follow through.• Interact regularly with multiple levels of the organization from senior leadership to cross-functional stakeholders to provide communications counsel and implement strategic communications in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.• Maximizes opportunities to highlight best practices and shared learnings across Global Commercial Operations and cross-functional partners to reduce duplication of efforts.• Ensures processes are in place to support integrated planning, operations, and process execution.• Develops and maintains business relationships across functional areas across AbbVie to implement frameworks that ensure Global Commercial Operations expertise, capabilities, and resources are leveraged appropriately across the different portfolio of work.Key Stakeholders:• Executive Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer• Global Commercial Operations Area, Direct and Extended teamsQualifications• Bachelor’s degree required.• At least 8 years industry experience in biotechnology, pharmaceutical or other healthcare related field.• Experience leading/organizing broad organizational initiatives and working with cross-functional teams, demonstrating an executive-level presence.• Detail-oriented with the ability to effectively synthesize ideas and document complex processes in both written and oral communication.• Strong proficiency in PowerPoint, with general knowledge of AbbVie branding style.• Project Management experience on global projects, with a proven ability to act with urgency and operate independently.• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with strong ability to prioritize tasks and act decisively.• Strong communication, conflict resolution, and leadership skills, capable of managing and influencing stakeholders at all levels.• Proven track record of anticipating and resolving problems while exhibiting judgement and a balanced, realistic understanding of issues.Additional InformationApplicable 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, 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.US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.htmlUS & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html