Senior Manager, Business Communications and Operations - job 4 of 5

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.

As a member of the Business Communications and Operations Team, the senior manager will be responsible for “rhythm of the business” activities and related communications across the seven functions of the Specialty and U.S. Therapeutics Operations commercial business unit. This position will partner with function leadership to drive operational rigor, efficient coordination, and alignment that ultimately helps accelerate key business decisions, employee engagement opportunities, and progress on critical initiatives/goals. To excel in this role, a candidate will be a highly organized and collaborative problem solver who can see the big picture and distill a variety of inputs into decisions and succinct communications.

Key responsibilities include:

• Establish processes, templates/resources, and governance to support key business updates, decisions, and communication opportunities.
• Facilitate alignment discussions with leaders/teams and assemble the associated deliverables (e.g., event/leader engagement schedules, progress and pain point trackers, and related communications).
• Assess and assemble stakeholder maps and distribution lists, deploy leader emails via StaffBase to broad internal audiences, and track the associated metrics.
• Write and edit broad audience messages and coordinate business-unit wide message cascades (e.g., business unit awards, surveys, employee giving and volunteer opportunities, etc.)
• Support the team in logistics and content creation for key business unit/function events, such as Town Halls.
• Coordinate photo and b-roll capture across the business unit/functions.
• Build and maintain a repository of communications materials that enable consistent pull-through across the business unit (e.g., templates, key messages, speaking engagement transcripts, photos, videos, creative/logos, and function/capability descriptions).

• A bachelor’s degree in business, communications, or a related field.
• At least 3-5 years of industry experience (pharma/healthcare/life sciences preferred) with a proven record of driving cross-functional business operations activities and strategic communications initiatives.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills (written and verbal) across a variety of mediums and stakeholders, including senior leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders, influence without authority, and navigate complexities in a matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and to intended outcomes, iterating or changing course when required.
• Strong business acumen and project management skills with an ability to anticipate team, function, and business unit needs.
• Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and Excel.
• A highly organized, team-oriented, collaborative, self-starter with an interest and ability to learn quickly.

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. ​

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