Associate Director, APS Enterprise Planning

AbbVie Inc.; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. seeks an Associate Director, Enterprise Planning to lead enterprise planning, portfolio governance, capacity planning and cross-functional coordination for U.S. Patient Services.

You will align strategic priorities with resources and enable executive decision-making. As the operational lead for APS ALIGN intake, you will provide end-to-end portfolio visibility, facilitate governance and prioritization, and ensure initiatives stay aligned with capacity and strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, business operations, or enterprise program governance.
• Ability to lead cross-functional planning and influence senior leaders without direct authority.
• Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and change leadership skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and facilitation capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate annual and ongoing strategic planning translating objectives into priorities.
• Establish intake, evaluation, prioritization, and governance for initiatives.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio with milestones, risks and progress.
• Develop a centralized dashboard for transparency into priorities and milestones.
• Lead capacity planning across functions and coordinate stakeholder input.
• Support leadership in prioritization and sequencing decisions.

Skills

Strategic planning

Portfolio management

Business operations

Enterprise governance

Cross-functional planning

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Change leadership

Analytical

Dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

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, Xand YouTube.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Enterprise Planning, supports U.S. Patient Services (APS) by leading enterprise planning, portfolio governance, capacity planning, and organizational coordination. This role creates the frameworks, processes, and visibility needed to align strategic priorities with organizational capacity and enable effective decision-making across APS.

Serving as the operational leader for the APS ALIGN intake and planning process, the Associate Director provides end-to-end portfolio visibility, facilitates leadership governance and prioritization, and ensures initiatives are aligned with strategic objectives, available resources, and delivery capacity. The role partners extensively with APS leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, manage dependencies and trade-offs, and drive execution of key commitments.

The Associate Director also advances APS portfolio management capabilities, maintains critical planning and reporting processes, and drives adoption of tools and ways of working that support transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Strategic Planning & Portfolio Governance:
  • Strategic Planning: Facilitate annual and ongoing strategic planning processes, translating enterprise objectives into aligned organizational priorities and initiatives.
  • Portfolio Intake & Governance: Establish and manage a standardized intake, evaluation, prioritization, and governance process for enterprise initiatives and emerging business needs.
  • Portfolio Management: Maintain an integrated portfolio of enterprise priorities, including initiative ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and progress against commitments.
  • Enterprise Priorities Dashboard: Develop and maintain a centralized dashboard providing organizational transparency into strategic priorities, initiative status, key milestones, and decisions.
  • Leadership Decision Support: Facilitate portfolio reviews and governance discussions, enabling leadership to evaluate trade-offs, resolve competing priorities, and make informed investment and sequencing decisions.
• Enterprise Capacity Planning & Coordination: Establish and facilitate an integrated approach to capacity planning across APS, ensuring organizational commitments are informed by functional resource availability and competing demands.
• Capacity Planning Framework: Develop standardized approaches, tools, and planning cadences that enable functional leaders to assess capacity against enterprise priorities.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Lead the coordination of capacity planning across functional leaders, integrating their assessments to identify organizational constraints, dependencies, and potential resource conflicts.
• Demand and Capacity Visibility: Consolidate functional capacity inputs to provide enterprise-level visibility into anticipated demand, available capacity, and potential execution risks.
• Scenario Planning: Support leadership in evaluating prioritization, timing, and sequencing alternatives when enterprise demand exceeds available capacity.
• Leadership Accountability: Facilitate capacity planning discussions and establish expectations for timely, accurate inputs while maintaining functional leaders' accountability for their own resource allocation and capacity management.
• Organizational Planning & Enablement: Lead organizational planning processes and coordination mechanisms that enable effective collaboration, communication, and operational continuity across APS.
• Organizational Onboarding: Establish and coordinate standardized onboarding processes for new team members and leaders, ensuring effective integration into APS structures, priorities, governance processes, and ways of working.
• Organizational Connectivity: Oversee the governance and maintenance of organizational distribution lists, stakeholder directories, and communication structures to support accurate, efficient information sharing.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Facilitate intra-team and cross-functional stakeholder alignment, ensuring clarity regarding roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and organizational interfaces.
• Operating Rhythms: Establish and coordinate organizational planning calendars, leadership touchpoints, and information-sharing mechanisms that support effective enterprise operations.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize organizational planning processes, reduce administrative complexity, and improve the employee and leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, business operations, or enterprise program governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning and influence senior leaders without direct authority. Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and change leadership skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and facilitation capabilities.
• Experience developing governance frameworks, executive dashboards, and leadership reporting.
• Ability to translate complex organizational priorities into structured, actionable planning processes.

Key Criteria:

• Strategic Planning or Portfolio Management Experience
• Analytical/ organizational capabilities
• Excellent stakeholder management

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 this posting 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 and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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