Architect, Supply Chain & Procurement IT

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a Senior IT professional to define and drive the technology strategy for its supply chain, covering demand, supply, procurement, distribution, logistics, and inventory management. You will lead architects and senior stakeholders to develop a long-term technology roadmap and ensure alignment with business goals.

You will mentor teams, govern architectural standards, and steer end-to-end transformation initiatives that deliver measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or related field with extensive industry experience.
• Experience in Life Science/Consumer Goods or Retail Supply Chain environments.
• 5+ years leading solution architecture teams and roadmaps.
• Experience with large-scale Transformations and end-to-end capabilities roadmaps.
• Strong partnerships with internal and external stakeholders and executive-level communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a technology vision for the Supply Chain value stream.
• Lead business capability models and maturity assessments with architects.
• Create and maintain technology roadmaps aligned to financial cycles.
• Define standards for platforms and integration technologies.
• Guide architecture through design and system architecture for complex needs.
• Drive resilient, scalable, secure technology roadmaps with stakeholders.
• Ensure governance, compliance, and security in architectural work.
• Lead Architecture Review Boards and solution lifecycle processes.
• Mentor solution architects and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

Supply Chain Expertise

Architecture Leadership

Stakeholder Collaboration

Communication Skills

Financial Acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

MBA or related field (preferred)

Tools

Architecture Frameworks

TCO Modeling

Job description

About 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 including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

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 including immunology, oncology, and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

A Supply Chain and Procurement Architect is a Senior-Level IT professional responsible for establishing and driving the technology strategy and vision that enables an optimized Supply Chain from Demand, Supply, Procurement, Distribution & Logistic and Inventory management. This role focuses on strategizing and leading the development of a comprehensive technology roadmap, evaluating, and selecting appropriate technologies, and ensuring alignment of IT capabilities with business objectives. This Senior IT leader role, partners across BTS leaders and with business stakeholders to drive a common technology north star. This role also leads solution architects to define a clear long-term outlook on technology, proactively addressing challenges and leveraging opportunities to deliver business value.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate a clear technology vision and strategy for the Supply Chain value stream from Demand, Supply, Procurement, Distribution & Logistics, and Inventory Management.
• Lead the development and maintenance of the business capability model while driving the solution architects to complete the maturity level assessment of each of the business capabilities from a people, process, data, and technology.
• Lead the technology roadmap creation and maintenance based on the capability assessment by prioritizing the investment needed including the delivery of a comprehensive total cost of ownership that is aligned to the financial cycles (LRP and Plan) for delivery and execution.
• Define the framework and standards for which the solution architects will evaluate and select appropriate platforms, and integration technologies.
• Lead solution architects through conceptual design and logical system architecture that effectively address complex business requirements.
• Lead the business and IT stakeholders to drive the development of resilient, sustainable, scalable, secure technology vision and its supporting roadmaps.
• Ensure IT governance, compliance, and security best practices are applied within the architectural domain.
• Lead Architecture Review Boards for Supply Chain as well as establishing a framework that supports the delivery of a Solution Lifecycle (SLC) process, ensuring architectural standards are met from start to end.
• Mentor and coach solution architects, fostering knowledge sharing and skill development across the Supply Chain and Procurement technology community.
• Guide and advocate for current architectural standards, guidelines, and trends across Business Technology Solutions (BTS) and the broader organization.
• Communicate complex technical solutions in a clear and concise manner to business stakeholders and BTS leadership.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree plus10 years experience, Masters degree plus 9 years experience or PhD with 5 years experience in computer science, engineering or related field.
• Respective years of experience in Life Science, Consumer Goods or Retail Industry with Supply Chain (including Demand, Supply, Procurement, Distribution & Logistics, and Inventory Management) experience architecting cross-functional and global transformation journeys.
• 5+ years experience leading team of solution architects and technical owners, responsible for delivering the Supply Chain (including Demand, Supply, Procurement, Distribution & Logistics, and Inventory Management) strategy and roadmap, ensuring compliance and best practices through architectural blueprints and standards (e.g., driving application life cycle management, technical debt reduction, etc.)
• Experience leading large-scale, complex Supply Chain (includes Demand, Supply, Procurement, Distribution & Logistics and Inventory Management) Transformations initiatives (Ex: New Capabilities, Global Implementations, Process Re-engineering, etc.) including end-to end capabilities roadmap assessments, that provides a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for financial management cycle (e.g., LRP, Plan, etc.).
• Strong proficiency in Supply Chain and Emerging Technologies like Supply Chain Decision Intelligence, Supply Chain Visibility, Control Tower, Command Center, etc.
• Proven experience as a Supply Chain End to End architect.
• Demonstrated strong partnership & collaboration skills managing internal & external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated high level of business understanding & financial acumen.
• Proven experience presenting & communicating (both written & verbal) with Sr/Executive Leadership.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof thisposting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location,andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless anduntil paid andmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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