Director, BTS Technology for Corporate Functions

BioSpace; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a technology strategy leader to drive cross-domain technology solutions aligned with business goals. The role influences senior leadership and partners across businesses to deliver 2-3 year strategies.

The position requires building and guiding technology programs, managing large teams, and shaping resource and budget strategies. This leadership role emphasizes AbbVie's Ways of Working and enterprise impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education with 12+ years of experience.
• Ability to translate technology into clear business value for senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing teams of at least 15 people with diverse, matrixed structures.
• Budget management experience of at least $15 million.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Thought leader across multiple technology and/or business domains with a tech-functional approach.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Influence: contribute to 2-3 year strategy across businesses and tech domains.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: identify and drive improvements in processes.
• People Management: lead senior managers and directors across domains.
• Impact: make decisions affecting financial, employee, and PR outcomes.
• Resource Management: contribute to resource strategy and org structure.
• Liaison & Relationship Building: build relationships with senior leadership.
• Culture: demonstrate AbbVie's leadership and enterprise mindset.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Budget management

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education

Master's Degree

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

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

Provide leadership to develop technology strategies that support business goals. This role will have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain. Objectives: Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain senior leadership. Develop and guide delivery of comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs. Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior domain leadership and results assess from a 2-3 year perspective.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Influence:Work across multiple businesses and technology to make significant contributions to development of a 2-3 year strategy. Develop, adapt, and execute strategies to achieve key objectives.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: Make significant contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements.
• People Management:Responsible for managing a team(s) of senior managers and directors within multiple business and/or technology domains.
• Impact:Make decisions that have an effect on financial, employee and/or public relations posture of AbbVie.
• Resource Management:Responsible for making significant contributions to the development of resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domain.
• Liaison & Relationship Building:Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact frequently with business and/or technology senior leadership and vice presidents. Interactions focus on top priority projects and influencing strategic decisions. Interact well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintain strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Culture: Consistently demonstrate AbbVies Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Effectively manage performance, provide timely feedback, appropriately reward and recognize valuable achievement, develop talent, and create a succession pipeline. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals, and strategies. This role has accountability for the performance and results strategically important functions.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience.
• Effectively connectemployee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overallAbbViegoals.
• Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating,energizing,and inspiring team members.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology into clear business value for senior, non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience managing teams of at least 15 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams,contractors,and managed service providers.
• Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to all levels of the organization,including C-Suite.
• Thought leader within multiple technology and/or business domains, with a techno-functional and consultative approach to solving business problems.
• Experience managing a budget of at least $15 million.

Preferred

• Master's Degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred, including data strategy and enablement, analytics and measurement, intelligent automation and AI-enabled operations, digital product and web platform management, and enterprise operations and workflow systems.

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 Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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