Associate Director, Supply Chain Brand

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k)

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a senior supply chain leader to coordinate complex S&OP and operations teams, aligning with business goals and ensuring compliance. You will interface with stakeholders and lead strategies across the immunology portfolio, bridging commercial and operations to optimize continuity and performance.

This role directs strategic planning, oversees financial cycles, manages inventory, and leads lifecycle programs.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree (STEM preferred) with 8+ years of experience.
• Demonstrates strategic thinking and executive-level communication.
• Experience in pharma or regulated life sciences.
• Strong data analytics with storytelling through data.
• Manufacturing or pharma operations experience required.

Responsibilities

• Direct S&OP topics at the executive level across functions.
• Lead lifecycle management and supply chain changes.
• Align brand planning with supply chain strategies and assets.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams on forecasts and programs.
• Oversee financial planning cycles and inventory synchronization.
• Drive strategic initiatives for continuity and efficiency.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Executive communication

Change management

Data analytics

Pharma experience

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM or related field

Master's degree or MBA preferred

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

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.

Job Description

Purpose

Coordinates complex Supply Chain and Operations Teams to align with business goals, ensuring strategic contributions and compliance. Lead complex operations impacting billion-dollar sales within the Immunology Portfolio, interface with stakeholders, manage strategies, risk management, and lead negotiations. Primary interface with a wide variety of functions in both Ops and Commercial. Ensures alignment on brand/product forecasts, as well as key cross functional project initiatives (Commercial Directors, VPs, and SVPs).

Responsibilities

• Directs and presents S&OP topics at the executive level across functions, driving synergy between demand and supply planning, with comprehensive oversight of operational performance via KPIs and other targets. Develops and drives strategies to ensure long term continuity of supply.
• Oversees and aligns the financial planning cycle, including LRP and annual Plan, while managing inventory and ensuring synchronization of strategic goals with financial planning across functions.
• Leads lifecycle management with a strategic view, ensuring changes align with business goals and collaborating with cross-functional teams for smooth transitions. Creates change plans and supply chain assessments in executing lifecycle programs.
• Interacts with the Industrialization team to ensure strategic integration of developmental products into brand planning, aligning timelines and resource allocation with operational strategies.
• Directs alignment between brand and Clinical Drug Supply Management to meet strategic trial needs, ensuring synchronization of supply chain and clinical demand planning.
• Oversees interaction with PPDST and Asset Strategy Teams ensuring collaborative strategy development, aligning product roadmaps and brand positioning with asset strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (preferred STEM or similar area, Masters preferred including MBA); 8+ years of experience.
• Requires high-level strategic thinking, excellent communication, shaping discussion and influencing at the executive level, and large-scale change management skills.
• Operations experience preferred; in pharma / regulated life sciences business.
• Strong knowledge in data analytics and telling a story through data.
• Filtering and identifying the business critical aspects of a problem (separate the minor issues from the major issues).
• Required manufacturing or other pharma experience.

Additional Information

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

• 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 long-term incentive programs.

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 employer 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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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