BTS Director (Hybrid)

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.

The Director has a critical leadership role within AbbVie R&D Information Research. This position is part of the Business Technology Solutions organization and is responsible for business relationship management, technology project delivery, and strategic planning. The director will work with Vice Presidents and senior leaders in a very dynamic and matrixed environment to understand medical strategy, identify ways that technology can make a remarkable impact. This position will lead a global organization of 14+ employees in addition to contractors and will report into the Sr. Director of Information Research.  Provide leadership to deliver technology strategies that support business goals.  This role will have impact and influence within the Medical Affairs global domain.
Objectives: Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain stakeholders.  Deliver comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs. ​Goal: Provide leadership to deliver technology strategies that support business goals.  This role will have impact and influence within a single domain.
Objectives: Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain stakeholders.  Deliver comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs.​

This position will be onsite 3 days a week and virtual 2 days a week. 

Responsibilities

•Strategy & Influence: Works with domain senior leadership and makes contributions to develop strategy. Adapts and executes domain strategic plans. 

•Process Improvement & Optimization: Drives opportunities to improve process and/or technology. 

•Decisions & Policies: Makes key decisions that are guided by established strategies and priorities.  Influences operating policies and procedures that affect the domain.  Interprets enterprise-wide policies, processes and procedures that may affect teams and domain workflow. 

•People Management: Manages a team(s) of managers and senior managers who have significant latitude and autonomy in their assignments. 

•Impact: Make decisions that are long lasting and heavily influence the future course of the business and/or technology domain. 

•Resource Management: Responsible for making contributions to the development of the domain resource management strategy and organizational structure. 

•Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leaders.  Interactions focus on project and operational decisions.  Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators. 

•Culture: Consistently demonstrate Abbvie's Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Effectively manages performance, provides timely feedback, appropriately rewards and recognizes valuable achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies. This role has accountability for the performance and results strategically important functions.

• Exceptional executive presence, communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build trust and ask effective questions.  Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels 
• Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members. 

• Track record of successfully delivering large, complex, IT projects.  

• In-depth knowledge of IT pricing and contracting practices. 

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10 years of experience OR Master’s degree with 9 years experience OR PhD with 5 years experience minimum 
• Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall Abbvie goals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members. 
• Experience managing teams of at least 10 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors and managed service providers. 
• Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels. 
• Subject matter expert in technology and/or business domain. 
• Experience managing a budget of at least $10 million. 
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred. 

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. ​

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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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