Director of Business Excellence Portfolio Strategy

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.

The Business Excellence Strategy group within Global Portfolio Strategy & Operations works side-by-side with the Aesthetics R&D executive team on many of the most pressing issues facing the organization, both in the short term and long term. Work from this team will have a direct impact on the future success of AbbVie. As a Director of Business Excellence Portfolio Strategy, you will partner with leaders across AbbVie to optimize the value of our portfolio and current/future assets. The role is seeking a high performing team member who has demonstrated an interest and expertise in the biopharma industry and strong desire to advance our strategic agenda and support mission-critical assets + initiatives that will make a real difference for AbbVie's patients. In return the Business Excellence group will provide high profile, high impact projects and professional development experiences spanning the entire drug development value chain. The position requires strong analytical skills, the ability to translate strategic vision into tactical action, identify the highest impact ideas and plans and focus efforts to work well in a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities:

Drive end-to-end strategic innovation, communication and execution on Allergan Aesthetics portfolio + assets in partnership with the R&D + Commercial Leadership Teams. Areas of focus include strategic planning, scenario evaluation, and data-driven problem solving spanning the breadth of drug development

Support R&D annual strategy processes including: franchise strategy reviews, portfolio strategy steering committee and Strategy Long Range Plans. Providing both strong project management + strategic insights to leaders and franchise strategy teams

Support strategic initiatives that address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success.

Lead individual modules within complex, cross-functional initiatives, including driving the problem-solving process supporting research and analytics, and distilling pragmatic recommendations for management consideration.

Help communicate our strategy at executive forums across AbbVie.

Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond.

Qualifications:

Bachelors or equivalent degree required. Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred. 2+ years at top tier management consulting company highly preferred

Minimum years of experience - 8+ with Bachelors, 5+ with Masters and 3+ with PHD

Strong problem-solving skills

Strong communication skills can comfortably lead meetings with senior-level management.

Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.

Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment on a strategic vision and facilitate decision making on critical issues

Capability building / Change management skills leverage empathy and coaching with functional stakeholder to achieve organizational buy-in and long-lasting changes.

Highly collaborative, genuinely enjoys working hand-in-hand with the businesses to develop solutions that advance AbbVie's overall mission.

Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie's mission.

Additional Information:

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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