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Associate Director, QC Labs Business Systems

AbbVie

AbbVie

North Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on Apr 24, 2025

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

This role is responsible for technical capability leadership relating to Sample Management for Product Release Testing, Stability Study Operations, Reference Standard Management and Lab Inventory Management for all AbbVie QC labs. A successful candidate will develop multi-year strategies, business technology roadmaps and bring an innovative technology mindset to support the planning of innovative BTS solution roadmaps to drive improved business outcomes. Associate Director works closely with QA Labs Business Owners, Manufacturing Sites and the broader BTS organization to conduct advanced business analysis, evaluation, ideation and development of a robust solutions portfolio to meet the needs at the intersection at Global Labs Business and evolving technology.

Responsibilities

  • Develops and promotes business cases for key projects. Responsible for planning and overseeing a portfolio of technology projects from ideation to completion; including securing cross-functional alignment on project scope, benefits, cost, and timeline. He/she is expected to work effectively across various IT shared services teams, manufacturing site representatives, and QA Labs business stakeholders.
  • Provides management oversight, coaching, and mentoring 2 to 4 direct reports
  • Ensures data & technology roadmaps for portfolio of labs solutions enables business objectives while optimizing the total cost of ownership for IT solutions and ensuring compliance with applicable regulations
  • Collaborate with delivery teams and solution vendors to minimize production issues, ensure continuity of business solutions, assure alignment with architecture & technology standards, and ability of product to scale to meet AbbVie requirements.
  • Defines Data, Reporting and AI strategies for AbbVie QC Labs and outlines value-based roadmaps to enable business insights and improve efficiency.
  • Communicates and educates the technical and business communities on current architectures and technologies and industry trends.
  • Identify current and emerging business needs and evaluate technology solutions to balance short term and long-term objectives. Understands both data and technology capabilities already in use across AbbVie and recommend appropriate solutions.
  • Accountable for financial targets of the portfolio, including monthly targets, project targets and vendor resource costs.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. Minimum of 7 to 10 years of work experience including business analysis, project management, portfolio management, and strategic planning.
  • Self-Directed Leader, quickly grasping business needs and setting direction
  • Excellent analytical, judgment and consultative capabilities and communication skills
  • Excellent communications and influencing skills with strong ability to balance differing stakeholder interests through sound analysis and persuasion.
  • Must have significant experience configuring and deploying Lab Systems (LIMS, ELN, CDS, Inventory, Asset Management).
  • Detailed understanding of relational databases, reporting databases, possesses SQL skills
  • Proven project leadership and team leadership skills

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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