ServiceNow Business Analyst

AbbVie; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 96,500 - 183,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a Business Analyst to support the CMDB and ITOM POD, coordinating delivery, documentation, and readiness across workstreams. You will collaborate with the Delivery Lead, Architect, Scrum Master, engineers, and stakeholders to keep work moving in a disciplined pod model.

The candidate will maintain visibility into POD priorities, backlog, and dependencies, ensuring clear communication and process improvements in a fast-moving IT operations environment.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting business analysis, operations coordination, documentation, or delivery activities in an enterprise environment.
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and support a team-based delivery model.
• Comfortable with documentation, status tracking, and follow-up activities.
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and customer-focused approach.
• Familiarity with CMDB concepts, ITOM workstreams, and data quality principles.
• Experience with agile lifecycle management and backlog visibility.

Responsibilities

• Support compliance with applicable policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to understand needs and priorities within CMDB & ITOM POD.
• Gather, organize, and maintain requirements, process notes, documentation, training materials, and delivery artifacts.
• Assist backlog refinement, intake coordination, and sprint planning by organizing work items and dependencies.
• Coordinate testing, document findings, and validate that delivered work meets business needs.
• Monitor milestones, actions, risks, and dependencies; escalate as needed.
• Serve as liaison between team members and business partners for clear communication.
• Support process consistency, documentation quality, and continuous improvement.
• Translate operational details into clear, actionable information for stakeholders.
• Contribute to routine reporting and coordination for backlog health and service stability.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

PhD

Tools

ServiceNow

Jira

Job description

• Compensation: USD 96,500 - USD 183,500 - yearly

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 at www.abbvie.com .

Job Description

The Business Analyst will support the CMDB & ITOM POD by helping coordinate delivery, documentation, and operational readiness across the team’s workstreams. This role is focused on enabling a well‑organized, disciplined pod model that supports intake, planning, tracking, and communication for work related to CMDB updates, discovery‑related enhancements, integrations, and service support activities. The Business Analyst will work closely with the Delivery Lead, Architect, Scrum Master, engineers, testers, and stakeholders to help keep work moving smoothly through the pod operating model.

In this role, the Business Analyst will help maintain visibility into POD priorities and backlog. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a structured delivery environment, supporting operational tasks, and ensuring clear communication between business and technical teams. A strong understanding of how good data, stable processes, and coordinated delivery support IT operations will be valuable in this position.

Responsibilities

• Support compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Partner with business and technology teams to understand operational needs, delivery priorities, and process improvement opportunities within the CMDB & ITOM POD.
• Help gather, organize, and maintain requirements, process notes, documentation, training materials, and delivery artifacts.
• Support backlog refinement, intake coordination, and sprint planning by helping organize work items, dependencies, and status updates.
• Coordinate testing support, document findings, and help validate that delivered work meets expected business and operational needs.
• Help monitor delivery milestones, open actions, risks, and dependencies, escalating items as needed to the appropriate leader or stakeholder.
• Serve as a liaison between team members and business partners to support clear communication and successful implementation.
• Support process consistency, documentation quality, and continuous improvement efforts that help strengthen team performance and delivery reliability.
• Communicate updates clearly and professionally to internal stakeholders, helping translate operational details into simple, actionable information.
• Contribute to routine reporting and coordination activities that support backlog health, delivery progress, and service stability.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree plus 6 years of related experience; or Master’s Degree plus 5 years; or PhD with 0 years of experience.
• Experience supporting business analysis, operations coordination, documentation, or delivery activities in an enterprise environment.
• Strong communication, organization, and stakeholder coordination skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and support a team‑based delivery model.
• Comfortable working with documentation, status tracking, and follow‑up activities.
• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail and a customer‑focused approach.
• ServiceNow for agile lifecycle management, sprint planning, and story tracking.
• Experience in Jira for backlog visibility, task tracking, documentation, and operational follow‑up.
• Basic understanding of CMDB concepts, CI relationships, and data quality principles.
• Familiarity with ITOM‑related workstreams and the role they play in supporting service operations.
• Strong organizational skills for managing priorities, notes, and action items.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills.
• Attention to detail, follow‑through, and a willingness to learn in a fast‑moving pod structure.

Preferred

• Exposure to ServiceNow CMDB or ITOM‑related work.
• Experience working in Agile environments is strongly preferred.

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/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in our short‑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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