Associate Business Systems Consultant

Allergan; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in Chicago is seeking an Associate Business Systems Consultant to serve as Scrum Master for a multi-pod Agile team and to drive BTS delivery using Jira, dashboards, and documentation tools. You will collaborate with internal IT clients, align business needs with technology strategies, and ensure compliance with corporate policies.

Responsibilities include eliciting requirements, coordinating testing, and providing expert guidance on information systems use.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher with 6+ years’ experience in Scrum.
• Experience reporting outcomes to delivery roadmaps and stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating Scrum Masters and Agile coaches.
• Demonstrated ability to drive change across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and communicate business strategy with IT clients.
• Ensure compliance with corporate policies.
• Evaluate technology solutions against business needs.
• Develop tech strategies and validate requirements.
• Coordinate with BTS for project status and issue resolution.
• Identify regulatory impacts on information usage.
• Maintain authority over assignment goals and quality.
• Align proposed solutions with business needs and IT directions.

Skills

Scrum Master

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder mgmt

Requirements gathering

Data analysis

Testing coordination

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

Jira

Reporting dashboards

Documentation tools

Code quality tools

Job description

Company 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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

This AssociateBusiness Systems Consultantwillperform multiple rules:

• Act as a Scrum Master for a multi-pod Agile team, coordinating SCRUM cadence and escalations across pods, in adherencewithlocal Agile standards.This includes JIRA standards anddocumentation
• Serveas adefaultpoint of contact for internal-to BTS stakeholders (i.e.BTS acting as ‘the business’)for assigned items
• Implement andmaintaintools used by the BTS team to enhance delivery capabilities, including reporting dashboards, documentation tools, code quality tools, etc.
• Manage andprovideexpert advice on the selection, design, justification, implementation, and business use of information systems.
• Analyze business processes; elicit, analyze, and document business requirements;identifyalternative solutions, assess feasibility, and make recommendations typicallyseekingto exploit andleveragenew or existing technology components.
• Translate business requirements into functional requirements; perform data and process modeling; manage changeand lead, coordinate/perform testing, verification, and validation of requirements.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and communicate the organization’s business strategy; work directly with business unitand/or internal ITclients to understand specific business processes and needs and opportunities for improvement; identifyIT capabilities and information required to support the business processes and collaborate in the development of appropriate information management strategies, developing them as an integrated part of the business strategy.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Identifycurrent and emerging business needs andevaluatealternative technology solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices. Proactively seek out strategic business opportunities with business unit executives for the application of new or existing technology capabilities.
• Develop technology strategies that meet the requirements of the business.Identifythe business benefits of alternative strategies. Ensure compliance between business strategies and technology directions. Prepare testing plans to confirm that requirements and system design areaccurateand complete.
• Allywith other BTS functional areas to remain current on project status and inform customer management of progress; conversely, keep BTS managers aware of user issues andresolvesconflicts.
• Identifythe impact of any relevant statutory, internal, or external regulations on the organization's use of information.
• Exercise considerable latitude in determiningobjectivesof assignment. Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial, and quality aspects. Establish organizationalobjectivesanddelegatesassignments. Accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and subordinates.
• Accountable for the accuracy of the fit of the proposed solution to the business needs and the information upon which the business justification and prioritization decisions are made. Also accountable for communicating the business needsand drivers to development groups toassurethe implementation phase can fulfill the business needs.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree with 6 years’ experience;Master’s Degreewith 5 years’ experience; PhD with 0 years’ experience.
• Respectiveyearsofdemonstratedexperience as a scrum master in an AI-enabled Infrastructure automation environment
• Experience reporting business outcomes alongside project delivery roadmap, in both a backward-looking (performance/results) and future-looking (projections and expectations) time scale
• Experience working with department-wide Scrum Masters and Agile coaches to standardize reporting cadences and adhere to corporate documentation standards while also enabling the delivery team
• Demonstrated experience driving change across multiple scrum teams/pods in a scrum master capacity
• Demonstrated ability to deliver tools useful tointernaldelivery team.

Preferred

• 2+years of experience as a scrum master in an AI-enabled Infrastructure automation environment
• Familiarity with IT infrastructure, Pharma practices, and AbbVie specific practicesa strongplus.
• Strong bonus:Demonstratedability to deliver working software using AI coding techniques.

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 thetimeofthis posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographiclocation,andwemay ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may bemodified in 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 toparticipate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.Theamountandavailabilityof anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremains in the Company'ssoleandabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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