Assistant Project Planner

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

Purpose:

The Assistant Project Planner is responsible for translating the strategies of Asset Strategy Teams (ASTs) into AbbVie’s Asset Management Platform (AMP) through the development and maintenance of project plans, timelines, data quality, and reporting requirements. This position requires using standardized project management tools and processes to assist ASTs in decision making for drug and device development across the R&D Portfolio and will require strong and consistent communications within a matrix organization.                                     

Responsibilities:

• Provide project management support to drug development projects, including timeline tracking with critical path, risk management, finance support, organization, and communication (e.g. Sharepoint sites, cross functional alignment etc.).
• Understands drug development strategy and how to communicate strategy through planning relationships and tools. Proactively collaborates across functional areas to ensure alignment on project timelines and strategies and ensures that the appropriate information is entered into AMP through direct entry at the asset level as well as coaching and assistance with functions.
• Manages the Project Management Team in collaboration with a director of Portfolio Program Management with the objective of fostering strong communication, collaboration, and alignment within the matrix organization.
• Support Project Managers with project plan maintenance and information reporting. Provide data entry for change requests. Utilize QC reports to ensure proper input of project information and accuracy of data.
• Drives the development of multiple project planning scenarios in collaboration with