Director of Data and Digital Governance, Operations (hybrid)

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 Director of Data & Digital Compliance and Governance will establish and lead AbbVie’s enterprise-wide governance framework for AI, digital, and data assets across Operations. This role will be responsible for defining and executing the Operations AI Compliance Strategy. This role ensures governance is standardized, trusted, and embedded into Ops AI initiatives (Digital CMC, NEO, OMEGA and ALPHA), Factory of the Future, Lab/ QA of the Future, Supply Chain/ Control Tower, and other digital transformation initiatives. The Director will drive overall governance and compliance, including digital and AI governance at the Operations level, and oversee a team (data governance, change management, project management) to coordinate standards, enable adoption, and ensure AbbVie’s digital investments are supported by high-quality, well-managed data and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Defining and Executing the Operations AI Compliance Strategy
• Define and maintain an enterprise taxonomy and governance framework spanning data, digital, and AI, ensuring consistent standards across Operations initiatives.
• Develop and maintain an inventory of priority Operations data assets, data products and data flows in a central metadata management platform and AbbVie’s Operations Data Marketplace
• Oversee the prioritization critical data domains (e.g., product, batch, equipment, quality, supply chain) to be governed based on 2026–2027 initiative dependencies.
• Onboard and coordinate collaboration across data domain leads, data product stewards and data consumers across Operations to support strategic priorities.
• Develop and govern policies, standards, a