Senior Product Manager, Platform Engineering & Toolchain

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie in Illinois is seeking a senior business technology professional to lead business process improvement initiatives and align information systems strategy with corporate goals. You will partner with multiple business units to identify opportunities, develop requirements, and scope technology-enabled changes across functions.

Responsibilities include evaluating solutions, guiding change management, and training stakeholders while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience.
• Exercises latitude in the approach to problem solving.
• Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by superiors.

Responsibilities

• Works with business unit clients to understand processes, drivers, and strategy; identifies needs for process improvement enabled by technology.
• Leads development of information management strategies and coordinates significant improvement programs across multiple business areas.
• Ensures compliance with corporate and divisional policies; evaluates technology solutions using standard IS methodologies.
• Identifies strategic opportunities and provides analyses to executives for leveraging technology products and services.
• Develops and reviews information systems strategy to support multiple business areas and tests required system design.
• Conducts training and makes recommendations to stakeholders on approaches to achieve objectives, including BPM practices.
• Manages relationships with clients and BTS/BTOs to ensure effective communication and project success.
• Establishes and maintains relationships with external partners and governs how technology supports business drivers and processes.

Skills

Business process improvement

Stakeholder management

Information systems strategy

Technology evaluation

Training and development

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Job description

Responsibilities

• Works with business unit clients to understand specific business processes and business drivers and business strategy across multiple business units; identifies and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via technology; investigates and understands capabilities of existing systems and technologies already in use across the business area and similar and interconnected business areas in AbbVie and investigates available technologies.
• Identifies information required to support the business strategy and leads the development of appropriate information management strategies, developing them as an integrated part of the business strategy. Identifies, proposes, initiates and leads significant improvement programs across multiple business areas establishing requirements for the implementation of significant changes in business functions and processes, organizational roles and responsibilities and scope or nature of technology.
• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Identifies current and emerging business needs and evaluates alternative technology solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices.
• Proactively seeks out strategic business opportunities for the application of new or existing technology capabilities (across multiple business areas) with high-level business unit executives providing key opinion‑leading clients with comprehensive strategic analyses and insights to help them discover strategic uses of technology products and services.
• Develops, leads, or reviews the creation of information systems strategy to support the strategic requirements of multiple business areas. Identifies the business benefits of alternative strategies. Ensures compliance between business strategies and technology directions. May prepare testing plans to confirm that requirements and system design are accurate and complete.
• Conducts training. Makes recommendations to process stakeholders regarding the correct approach to achieve process improvement objectives. These may include business process outsourcing, application development or adopting business process management (BPM) practices.
• Develops business relationships and integrates activities with other BTOs to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts. Manages relationships between clients involved and BTOs to assure effective communication between the groups is occurring.
• Brokers services within BTS on behalf of customers; coordinates portfolio of solutions, and identifies interdependencies. Allies with other BTOs to remain current on project status, and inform customer management of progress; conversely, keeps BTS managers aware of user issues and resolves conflicts. Identifies the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations on the organization's use of information.
• Establishes and maintains productive relationships with all levels in BTS and with external partners. Acts as a liaison and business process expert to BTOs to assure successful implementation. Serves as a source of information to the service organizations on the business drivers, processes and organization structure and dynamics of multiple business areas.
• Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects. Establishes organizational objectives and delegates assignments. Accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and subordinates. Accountable for the accuracy of the fit of the proposed business process improvements and the technical solution to the business needs and the information upon which the business justification and prioritization decisions are made.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience.
• Exercises latitude in the approach to problem solving.
• Work checked through consultation and agreement with others rather than formal review by superiors.

Compensation

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 until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

Equal Employment 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.