Director, BTS — Technology for Corporate Functions

AbbVie Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in North Chicago, IL seeks an experienced leader to develop technology strategies that align with business goals and oversee multiple domains. The role influences senior leadership, shapes a 2-3 year roadmap, and drives cross-functional collaboration across technology and business teams.

The position requires 12+ years, a strong track record in leadership, budget governance, and translating complex tech into business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Influence: Work across multiple businesses and technology to shape a 2-3 year strategy and execute key objectives.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: Identify and drive organizational or technology improvements.
• People Management: Lead senior managers and directors across multiple domains.
• Impact: Make decisions affecting budget, people and public relations posture.
• Resource Management: Contribute to resource strategy and organizational structure.
• Liaison & Relationship Building: Build strong relationships with senior leadership and stakeholders.
• Culture: Demonstrate AbbVie Leadership Attributes and develop talent across functions.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

People management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Budget management

Tech-functional leadership

Influence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education

Master's 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, X and YouTube.

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 AbbVie’s 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

• Bachelor’s 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 Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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