Manager, Global Portfolio Management

Allergan; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical insurance

401(k)

Long-term incentives

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Manager, Global Portfolio Management to oversee a portfolio of projects within Clinical Sciences. You will partner with stakeholders to design and implement strategic initiatives, provide project management support, and lead governance meetings to address issues and drive outcomes.

The role requires collaboration across global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on communication and delivering timely status updates and dashboards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience with 3+ years supporting projects and programs from strategy through implementation across a range of business topics.
• Must possess basic project management capabilities including knowledge of project management best practices, risk analysis and mitigation planning, change management support, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral required.
• Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry.

Responsibilities

• Partners with business stakeholders to lead the design and implementation of strategic, cross-functional, projects for Clinical Sciences.
• Provides project management support to project teams, including the development of project planning scenarios in collaboration with team members, identification, monitoring, and analysis of project risks, and action item tracking, organization and communication of team materials.
• Leads project team meetings effectively using project governance processes to effectively escalate and support resolution of project issues.
• Demonstrates effective group facilitation skills and ability to support decision-making among team members regarding project strategy and deliverables.
• Collaborates effectively with management, SMEs, and team members inside and outside of Clinical Sciences to implement cross-functional solutions.
• Develops effective working relationships with project team members. Communicates (oral and written) and interacts effectively with project sponsors, and shares information regarding projects concisely and effectively to project stakeholders.
• Prepares status reports and dashboards using standard methodologies, tracking risks and mitigation plans, as well as other project roadblocks and facilitates resolution.
• Supports deliverable preparation and may own select individual deliverables based on the needs of individual project teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Risk analysis

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

Purpose

Theprimary function of the Manager, Global Portfolio Management is to managetheir assigned portfolio of projectsusing standardized project management tools and processes to drive successful outcomes for Clinical Sciences and AbbVie.

Theincumbentwillindependently supportmultipleprojects while working directly withteam members andother stakeholders to address key business challenges across the Clinical Sciences organization.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with business stakeholders to lead the design and implementation of strategic, cross-functional, projects for Clinical Sciences.
• Provides project management support to project teams, including the development of project planning scenarios in collaboration with team members, identification, monitoring, and analysis of project risks, and action item tracking, organization and communication of team materials.
• Leads project team meetings effectively using project governance processes to effectively
• escalate and support resolution of project issues. Demonstrates effective group facilitation skills and ability to support decision-making among team members regarding project strategy and deliverables.
• Collaborates effectively with management, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and team members inside and outside of Clinical Sciences to implement cross-functional solutions.
• Develops effective working relationships with project team members. Communicates (oral and written) and interacts effectively with project sponsors, and shares information regarding projects concisely and effectively to project stakeholders.
• Prepares status reports and dashboards using standard methodologies, tracking risks and mitigation plans, as well as other project roadblocks and facilitates resolution.
• Supports deliverable preparation and may own select individual deliverables based on the needs of individual project teams.

Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional work experience with 3+ years supporting projects and programs from strategy through implementation across a range of business topics (e.g., capability development, operating model transformation, change management, process improvement).
• Must possess basic project management capabilities including knowledge of project management best practices, risk analysis and mitigation planning, change management support, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral required.
• Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry.

Additional Information

• 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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