Associate Director, Global Site Contracting Program Management

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

The Associate Director, Global Site Contracting (GSC) Program Management is responsible for providing direction, support, program/project management, oversight, and reporting to the GSC staff and leadership team, in relation to strategic initiatives that support the GSC organization. Managed initiatives may include process and continuous improvement, communications, metrics and dashboards, tracking and reporting of goals and objectives, organizational transformation, and ad hoc priorities supporting site contracting and budgeting, and other Clinical Development Operations (CDO) priorities. This role reports into Director II, Site Contracting Global Operations, and directly supports Sr. Director - GSC in ensuring key projects remain on time, on budget and tracking to success.

• Centrally leads high priority/profile strategic initiatives for the organization;
• Directly oversees program management governance which includes tracking, reporting, issue escalation, communication with management and stakeholders, and enables continuous process improvements.
• Maintains subject matter expertise across stakeholder groups to provide input, guidance, oversight, and tracking/reporting of imperatives and projects.
• Influences and strategically manages the linkages across GSC and partner areas, including R&D, Legal, Finance, Quality and OEC, to drive the successful implementation of R&D initiatives.
• Independently manages expectations and mitigates risk by providing strategic solutions and decision making for the function.
• Works with the GSC leadership team to establish and maintain key performance indicators and metrics.
• Identifies and secures project resources/direct report staff, dele