Factory and Lab of the Future Transformation Lead

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

As a Factory of the Future and Lab of the Future Transformation Lead, you'd be responsible for orchestrating the integration of advanced technologies like automation, IoT, and AI into the manufacturing and laboratory processes. Your role involves strategic planning, project management, and ensuring a smooth transition to a more efficient and technologically advanced factory environment.

The Factory of the Future and Lab of the Future Transformation Lead is responsible for developing the vision and leading the execution of the FotF and LotF transformation through the implementation of technologies throughout the AbbVie manufacturing and laboratory sites worldwide. 

This key strategic role will work closely with Manufacturing VP’s, Quality VP’s and Manufacturing site leaders to ensure a cohesive strategy development and implementation plan. Provide leadership and build the team to lead the continuous evolution of next generation technologies to define and develop standards, best practices, governance, application of Lean principles, and technical expertise in an organized manner that is secure, scalable, and sustainable. FotF and LotF will include elements of digital, automation, robotics, data acquisition, internet of things, and artificial intelligence to accelerate growth and maintain/gain a competitive advantage and support the MEC and Quality strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Development of teams in the continuous improvement of Industry 4.0 initiatives; build, deploy, and upgrade digital technologies best practices.
• Responsible for Lighthouse use case implementations and value capture.
• Demonstrated ability to establish, implement, and sustain a FotF team.