Project Manager, Business Evolution Strategic Development

Allergan; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Project Manager for its BESD group to drive cross-functional initiatives addressing external disruptions such as MFN pricing controls and PBM dynamics. You will orchestrate milestones, governance, and executive-ready materials while enabling strategic decision making and risk mitigation.

The role emphasizes collaboration across BESD and senior leadership, with a focus on delivering high-impact insights and clear, actionable plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or related field.
• 7+ years of project management experience; pharma PBM or related initiatives preferred.
• Strong coordination, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to align priorities and deliverables.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable execution plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery.
• Maintain trackers, logs, and execution plans; synthesize insights.
• Synthesize meeting insights and drive next steps and ownership.
• Prepare executive dashboards, reports, and leadership presentations.
• Identify risks and dependencies; support governance and decision making.

Skills

Project management

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Project Management

Tools

Microsoft Office

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

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

AbbVie’sBusiness Evolution Strategic Development(BESD) teamis an enterprise team responsible fordeveloping and driving forward-looking strategic plans that will ensure AbbVie’s readiness for, and ability to successfully navigate, potential changes in the healthcare environment such as Most Favored Nations (MFN) pricing controls and Prescription Benefit Manager (PBM).

The Project Manager, BESD role provides business-critical operational support for cross-functional initiatives related to addressing external disruptions. Facilitates the execution on business priorities and strategies and enables strategic decision making by: project managing key milestones, governance, synthesizing key insights, meeting preparation, workshop planning, and contributing to the development of high-impact leadership presentations. Serve a critical role in supporting stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment, risk mitigation, clear communication, and timely execution of key deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with core teams and key stakeholders to align priorities, goals, deliverables
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable execution plans
• Navigate complex ways of working by synthesizing direction from multiple leaders to ensure alignment across BESD and cross-functional stakeholders
• Support key workstreams; develop and maintain trackers, decision logs, follow-ups and execution plans
• Synthesize key insights from meeting discussions, determine and drive next steps/deliverables, ownership and timing
• Coordinate across workstream leads to ensure alignment, resolve issues, and advance work
• Identify, anticipate, and mitigate risks, gaps, and dependencies impacting delivery
• Support leadership meetings, including master calendar, preparation sessions, content/design development, deck reviews, and pre-reads
• Plan, facilitate, and execute workshops, meetings, and events; capture clear next steps and responsible parties
• Prepare executive-level dashboards, reports, presentations, and meeting materials that support strategic decision-making
• Support sprints, pilots, and ongoing operational activities
• Maintain decision logs and document outcomes to support scalability and future planning
• Identify, track, and submit financial documentation, including budget requests, statements of work, and purchase orders.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, or related field
• 7+ years of project management experience; experience with project managing pharma (preferred), PBM, and/or commercial initiatives
• Demonstrated success organizational and project coordination skills; attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in developing polished presentations and materials
• Proven ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
• Knowledge of project management and governance principles
• Analytical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills; self-motivated
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

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/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of payis 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.

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