Associate Director - Quality Systems Delivery Lead - AbbVie

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

The AbbVie Quality Labs BTS team is dedicated to accelerating the Integrated Digital Lab of the future through establishing innovative solutions and harnessing the power of digital data to optimize lab efficiencies and quality.  The Associate Director, Quality Labs Delivery Lead will be responsible for project delivery, operational excellence and technical solution ownership across the global labs technology solutions portfolio.  The position requires expertise in implementing complex GxP regulated systems and collaborates with senior leaders on both the Labs Business & BTS teams to deliver and support technical solutions for AbbVie Labs. 

Responsibilities:

• Provides oversight, coaching, professional development & technical thought leadership for team of project managers, analysts and technical leads. 
• Develops a deep understanding of projects to gain insights and ensures technical solutions are established with consideration of all business requirements addressing resiliency, data integrity, performance and optimized user experience for Lab Analysts.
• Establishes robust measurement strategies for project deployments to ensure project outcomes meet business expectations.
• Oversees project delivery from estimation through planning and implementation.  Considers all elements of project delivery such as organizational change management, system performance technical architecture, validation and data integrity & regulatory compliance. 
• Leads delivery team and collaborates with external solution vendors to minimize production issues, ensure continuity of business solutions, assure alignment with architecture & technology standards, and ability of product to scale to meet AbbVie requirements.
• Accountable for financial targets of the portfolio, including monthly targets, project targets and vendor resource costs
• Takes ownership of critical incidents, coordinates with resolution parties, and establishes effective communication between stakeholders for post-incident reviews.
• Ensure that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support solution delivery and operational excellence.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 9 years of experience OR Masters Degree and 8 years of experience OR PhD and 4 years of experience including business analysis, project management, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
• Experience building and managing an organization of technologists, analysts, architects, and project managers including both employees and contractors
• Self-Directed Leader, quickly grasping business needs and setting direction
• Excellent analytical, judgment and consultative capabilities and communication skills
• Excellent communications and influencing skills with strong ability to balance differing stakeholder interests through sound analysis and persuasion.
• Lab Systems / Lab Experience a plus (LIMS, ELN, CDS, Inventory, Asset Management).

Why Business Technology Solutions
For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we’re ready for you.

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• 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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