Director, Strategic Planning & Operations, Value & Evidence

Company Description

About AbbVie

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. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

• Serve as the principal advisor and right hand to the Vice President of Value & Evidence, supporting strategy development, operational excellence, and cross-functional initiatives. 

• Lead strategic planning and execution for V&E, aligning business objectives with enterprise goals.  Includes providing direction and oversight across V&E to ensure effective planning, execution and assessment of progress to maximize organizational impact. 

• Drive operational effectiveness by building and optimizing processes, reporting, and performance metrics and/or managing operational initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency.  

• Designs and implements control systems and metrics to ensure efficient, effective, high quality, and timely V&E services and deliverables. 

• Serve as chief communicator and facilitator for leadership team meetings, program reviews, and major initiatives.  Includes defining agendas, managing topics/decisions/actions, and contributing as a member of the leadership team.  

• Leverage this leadership team to provide guidance and foster strong alignment across V&E pillars, MHI and cross-functional partners across AbbVie. 

• Leverage V&E team to highlight best practices and shared learnings across V&E pillars and cross functional partners to continually improve processes, streamline tool development and engage V&E employees. 

• Partner with stakeholders across research, medical, development, and commercial to coordinate V&E projects and shared initiatives. 

• Empower data driven decisions on resource allocation, process and quality improvement across V&E pillars. Contribute to  the operational support of the V&E budget, headcount and capital asset planning. 

• Support change management, culture, and talent development efforts within the function. 

• Serve as ambassador of Value & Evidence and maintain strong connectivity with strategic planning & operations leads from other MHI pillars and stakeholder functions. 

• Provide strategic direction and oversight across the Value & Evidence teams to ensure effective planning, execution and assessment of progress to maximize organizational impact. 

• Recruit, develop and retain diverse talent to the V&E Operations team that delivers actionable insights from the pillars and enables the effective implementation of global initiatives. 

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (science, health care, technology/informatics, business management) and greater than or equal to 10 years of pharmaceutical experience, with direct people management and demonstrated leadership success in a pharmaceutical or biotech company. 5 – 7 years of pharmaceutical management experience required, with demonstrated understanding of the complexities and success of working in the global pharmaceutical environment. 

• Higher degree or certifications (e.g. MS., MBA, LSS, Masters in Project Management, PMP) preferred 

• Strong business acumen and learning agility; ability to leverage business principles to support V&E, MHI and enterprise initiatives 

• Proven leadership skills to lead and influence cross-functional matrix teams 

• Strong communicator and ability to influence across the enterprise 

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results, effectively manage teams, partner with cross-functional colleagues, build strong relationships and serve as a role-model for leadership behaviors 

• Experience working with a global mindset to deliver on business priorities and objectives 

• Commitment to building and developing team members and deliver effective coaching and feedback 

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