Business Strategy and Operations P05

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Short-term incentive programs

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. seeks a Manager, Strategic Initiatives to bridge strategy with data-driven decision making.

You will oversee cross-functional initiatives, develop executive-ready narratives, and deliver integrated dashboards and scorecards that connect portfolio, funding, and execution for leaders across CDO, R&D, Finance, HR, and Procurement. You will promote standardized analytics, train users, gather feedback, and refine solutions to meet evolving needs, enabling informed portfolio and resource

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, data analytics, information systems, engineering, life sciences, finance, operations or a related field.
• Typically 3+ years in pharma development, business ops, analytics, strategy or portfolio management.
• Ability to structure problems and create scalable solutions in ambiguity.
• Strong written and verbal communication to influence stakeholders.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports or BI products using Power BI or Excel.

Responsibilities

• Translate complex portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into clear insights for leaders to prioritize work and allocate resources.
• Develop and maintain integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views; improve data quality and governance across source systems.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption.
• Automate recurring reporting and streamline workflows to improve data accessibility and tool usage (Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Monday.com).

Skills

Data analysis

Dashboard analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Excel

SharePoint

Power Apps

Power Automate

Monday.com

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

The Manager, Strategic Initiatives

The Manager, Strategic Initiatives combines strategic initiative management with advanced data analysis, dashboard analytics, and decision-support capabilities. The role translates complex portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into clear insights that help leaders prioritize work, allocate resources, monitor execution, and make timely decisions. The position develops and maintains integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views; strengthens data quality and governance across source systems; and supports cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption. The role works across CDO, R&D, Finance, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Procurement, and Business Technology Solutions to connect strategy, funding, capacity, execution risk, and measurable outcomes.

Promote adoption of standardized dashboards, analytics, and processes by developing guidance, training users, gathering feedback, measuring utilization, and refining solutions to meet evolving business needs.

Create concise, executive-ready narratives and presentations that connect data to business impact and enable leaders to distinguish priorities, understand implications, and make informed portfolio, funding, workforce, and execution decisions.

Provide end-to-end leadership for cross-functional process improvement and strategic initiatives, including scope definition, integrated plans, resource projections, governance, decision points, risk mitigation, change management, and implementation.

Facilitate initiative governance forums and working sessions; maintain clear documentation of decisions, actions, owners, milestones, and interdependencies; and escalated significant issues or resource gaps with fact-based options and recommendations.

Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting, streamline manual workflows, improve data accessibility, and strengthen sustainable use of tools such as Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, Power Apps, Power Automate, Monday.com, and other approved platforms.

Develop, monitor, and continuously improve key performance indicators, success measures, forecasts, and effectiveness metrics for strategic initiatives and business operations; proactively identify material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree (or ex-US equivalent) in business, data analytics, information systems, engineering, life sciences, finance, operations, or a related field.
• Minimum Experience: Typically 3+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical development, business operations, analytics, strategy, project or portfolio management, continuous improvement, consulting, or a related environment.
• Demonstrated initiative, learning agility, and comfort working through ambiguity to structure problems and create scalable solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain analytical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong project management, problem-solving, and continuous-improvement skills, including the ability to manage milestones, risks, dependencies, and competing priorities in a matrixed environment.
• Experience developing and maintaining dashboards, scorecards, reports, or analytical products using Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable data-visualization and business-intelligence tools.

Compensation & Benefits

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 short-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 employee 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.

Equal Opportunity

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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