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Associate Director - Integrations & Acquisitions - CDO

AbbVie

AbbVie

North Chicago, IL, USA
Posted on Nov 4, 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

The Associate Director - Integrations & Acquisitions - CDO is accountable for leading and overseeing all integration activities related to new companies or acquired assets within CDO, ensuring the seamless assimilation of people, processes, and systems. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing comprehensive integration strategies that align with CDO's standards, policies, and business objectives. This role minimizes disruption and risk during transition phases, proactively manages change, and ensures business continuity and quality throughout the integration lifecycle. By maintaining consistent practices and partnering with cross-functional teams, this role directly supports the successful realization of value from business development deals and strengthens CDO’s capacity for scalable growth.

Responsibilities:

  • Establishes and implements comprehensive plans to address unique needs of each transaction
  • Develop and assess integrated project plans, risk plans, and effectiveness metrics for each integration initiative
  • Responsible for guiding the integration team through all aspects of the change management process to ensure smooth and efficient transitions
  • This position is responsible for problem solving, risk mitigation and contingency plans at a global level
  • This role is integral in setting and ensuring alignment across a set of integrated initiatives/activities
  • Actively shares learnings and collaborates with other Integration Leads to apply best practices to support teams
  • Supports high performing project teams through monitoring and assessing the team’s performance and adherence to project timelines and quality
  • This is the first level position (of 2 levels) within a job family which is 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

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree is required, typically in scientific field. An Associate’s degree/R.N. with relevant experience is acceptable
  • 8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of roles associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations) Minimum of 2 years supporting cross-functional teams in a core function (Program Management, Development, Regulatory)
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Good communication skills both written and oral
  • Project management experience in the pharmaceutical industry
  • Demonstration of leading a global team. PMP, Change Management, or process improvement experience desirable

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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