Associate Director, 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 ME&C Associate Director is a global program management expert responsible for managing major global programs and projects across disciplines and multiple manufacturing locations. They organize and lead high-performing cross-functional teams in the planning and execution of device and combination product industrialization programs.

The program manager is to provide strategic oversight for one or more industrialization programs, responsible for ensuring that each program achieves its business objectives supporting both AbbVie’s pipeline products and lifecycle. This individual provides leadership and coordinated program management for all manufacturing and/or technical activities needed to ensure successful transfer and industrialization of the assigned products.

The chosen candidate is to use their broad understanding of Product Development, Manufacturing, Quality and Regulatory Affairs to translate the business objectives into actionable program execution strategies with clearly defined deliverables and milestones. The program manager is to kick-off project/transfer teams, remove barriers to success, realize opportunities, mitigate risks and successfully drive completion of program deliverables. 

Success in this role requires a passionate, pro-active program manager with exceptional organizational skills, an enterprise leadership mind-set and the ability to engage, align and empower functional and project managers in Manufacturing, Engineering, Product Development Science & Technology, Quality, Supply Chain, Trade Compliance and Procurement.      

Responsibilities:

• Using a collection of program management tools, independently define and document the program scope