Associate Director, Business Operations - R&D Strategic Resourcing

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

Partner with RDSR and key R&D stakeholders to develop and implement strategies tied to R&D priorities, ensuring effective coordination and strong change management. Responsible for resource and space planning to optimize organizational resources; and ensure alignment between human capital and optimal physical space utilization. Understand resourcing and broader business impacts of initiatives/capabilities and x-functional priorities to better inform decisions. Support in executing global resource strategies and helping functions operate within the existing Plan/updated budget. Assist in building RDSR capabilities and codifying workflow processes.

• Accountable for optimizing space allocation and utilization to support business priorities, collaboration needs, and work styles aligned with enterprise guidance. Anticipate growing and evolving business needs; and partner with Facilities to strategically identify alternative space scenarios to accommodate future needs.
• Refine and build-up integrated workflow processes to ensure optimal utilization of space in support of business needs; ensuring consistent processes to accommodate shifting business needs
• Partners with RDSR lead to develop and implement RDSR and departmental goals; and connects across RDSR to ensure consistent operating model and sharing of best practices. Provides proactive leadership on strategic business issues and makes strategic decisions that affect the department and the business.
• Primarily accountable for forecasting and management of resources (people and space) and associated budgets. Responsible for short and long term forecasts and management of implications of alternative development scenarios
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