Associate Director, Initiative 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

Drives global, complex, cross-functional process and productivity improvement projects for Development that support the organization’s strategic objectives. Partners with the Project Lead to drive cross-functional Team effectiveness. Provides tactical input on the implementation of the strategic support for process improvement initiatives for Development ensuring aligned execution.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and implements improvement methodologies and techniques to be used, governance structure, project management structure and progress reporting
• Develop and assess integrated project plans, resource projections, risk plans, and effectiveness metrics for each initiative
• Accountable for helping team navigate the change management process effectively and efficiently
• This position is responsible for problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans at a global level
• Providing program management leadership across a program of projects or a large project with a broad implementation. This role will be integral in setting and ensuring alignment across a set of integrated initiatives
• Actively shares learning and collaborates with other Initiative PMs to apply best practices to supported teams
• Supports high performing project teams through monitoring and assessing the team’s performance
• This is the first level position (of 2 levels) within a job family which responsible for overseeing the management of projects that are cross-functional, highly complex, have high impact and are top priority for the organization
• This position will report into a director level and will manage matrix teams. This position may have 1-2 direct reports

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