Associate Director, Performance & Portfolio Management

Allergan; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Time off

Incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL seeks an Associate Director of Performance & Portfolio Management to lead the Global Supply Chain SMO, driving strategic portfolio plans and governance. The role emphasizes delivering initiatives, enhancing efficiency, and communicating with senior leaders across the organization.

You will guide cross-functional teams, manage project lifecycles, and build governance structures. This position offers hybrid onsite/remote work, competitive benefits, and opportunities to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree at a minimum, advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years project management experience in global companies.
• PMI PMP or Lean Six Sigma certifications preferred.
• Proven leadership with strong communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead/influence global multi-functional teams.
• Proven project planning and management experience including successful implementation of business and technology initiatives (ideally within supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or an enterprise transformation environment).
• Experience working in a global, complex and matrix environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SMO performance & portfolio management team and develop key project artifacts.
• Ensure compliance with Corporate and Quality policies and governance for resource allocation.
• Build collaborative relationships and provide project management leadership to advance priorities.
• Recommend improvements and align resources with strategic priorities.
• Advise project sponsor on direction and decisions to enable agility and efficiency.
• Manage full lifecycle of projects including risks, issues, and status updates to leadership.
• Work with leaders to propose new projects and optimize team effectiveness and value.
• Ensure key projects are delivered on time and meet business needs.
• Maintain the master project list aligned with enterprise priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Global collaboration

Project governance

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Lean Six Sigma

PMP

Job description

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 – 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 X,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

This position is based in North Chicago, IL (3 days onsite/2 days remote, 100% remote option is not available)

The Associate Director, Performance & Portfolio Management is a role within the Global Supply Chain Strategic Management Office (SMO). This role will lead and be accountable for the successful delivery of assigned process programs and projects, building the strategy and plan related to the strategic project and innovation portfolio, along with identifying and implementing operational excellence improvement projects/programs to support the entire function. The role will serve as a key contributor in end-to-end project/program objectives and outcomes, develop governance frameworks, especially driving efficiency and agility, and deliver new systems or system improvements to increase the success of the operations. This role will drive projects across the SMO and will provide various opportunities to communicate recommendations to senior-level leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SMO performance & portfolio management team (including system owners) who will develop and manage as assigned key project artifacts such as project charters, status reports, work plans, stakeholder engagement plans and decision-making model.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Quality policies and procedures and developing governance frameworks for resource allocation and investment decision.
• Build and maintain collaborative and trusted relationships at all levels within the organization by understanding business needs and providing exceptional project management leadership to advance strategic priorities.
• Recommend improvement opportunities and implement departmental initiatives to increase effectiveness—ensure resource capacity and capability alignment with strategic priorities.
• Strategize with and advise project sponsor/business lead regarding project direction and decisions. Provide strategic project advisory to enable successful outcomes leading to agility and efficiency—promote transparency and accountability through robust tracking and communication.
• Manage the entire lifecycle of projects including driving team accountabilities, addressing project issues/risks, driving effective decision making and delivering status updates/recommendations to function head or senior management.
• Work with functional leaders to propose new projects to continue to enhance productivity, compliance and efficiencies within their functions. Proactively identify and implement opportunities to optimize project team effectiveness and outcomes such as creating and distributing performance scorecards and dashboards to monitor initiative progress and value, or identify underperforming initiatives and recommend actions for recovery or pivot.
• Responsible at the program level to ensure key projects are delivered effectively (meeting the business needs) and on time.
• Maintain and update the master project list, aligning with enterprise priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree at a minimum, advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred
• 10 + years project management experience and/or business excellence methodologies within global companies, working on large cross-functional strategic and operations initiatives.
• Project management certification(s) preferred (e.g. Lean Six Sigma certification(s), Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification)
• Proven Success in a leadership role with strong leadership/management skills. Strong communication skills, both orally and written
• Demonstrated ability to lead/influence global multi-functional teams
• Proven project planning and management experience including successful implementation of business and technology initiatives (ideally within supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or an enterprise transformation environment)
• Experience working a global, complex and matrix environment

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, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified 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 to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.
• This job is eligible to participate in 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 employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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