Director, Pipeline Commercialization

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.

Purpose:

Key Responsibility Areas:

1. Line management of Program Management staff.

2. Provide Program Management support for assigned Asset Team Sub-teams/working teams

3. Supports development of sub-team plans and drives aligned execution for functional components

4. Ensure accurate and timely tracking and reporting of sub-team deliverables and identification, communication and management of sub-team risks

5. Actively participates in the advancement of Program Management and asset development at AbbVie

Responsibilities:

• Manage, develop, coach and mentor staff. Foster and sustain a challenging, inclusive and rewarding and inclusive work environment where talent is developed and diversity valued.
• Provide program management support for assigned Asset Teams and sub-teams. Serve as a key business partner in developing core strategies and delivering goals of asset teams.
• Coordinates sub-team activities and deliverables and supports the sub-team leader in driving cross-functional alignment within sub-team and structures sub-team meetings and discussions to drive good decision-making practices
• Responsible for partnering with Asset Team PM and helping sub-team prepare key messages and deliverables for, and navigate the governance process effectively and efficiently and appropriate use of each forum higher complexity (e.g. multi-indication assets)
• In partnership with the sub-team lead, drives development of (and participates in) creation of sub-team plans and deliverables to inform asset strategy, and to translate asset strategy into execution by the sub-team and associated functions. Maintains awareness of upcoming deliverables as a part of the asset development lifecycle to ensure sub-team preparedness in higher complexity (e.g. multi-indication assets
• Proactively identifies challenges or potential issues for execution, both within sub-team and partnering with asset PM cross-functionally, managing or escalating as appropriate
• Partners with project planners to ensure appropriate and accurate tracking and reporting of team deliverable timelines. Maintains operational awareness of the sub-team deliverables and upcoming needs by the asset team in higher complexity (e.g. multi-indication assets)
• Partners with sub-team members to proactively identify, communicate and manage sub-team risks, including escalation as appropriate for asset level risks
• Proactively seek learnings from other teams and share best practices
• Partners with colleagues in the PM organization and leads sub-teams to develop and implement change to drive process improvement

Qualifications:

• Bachelors with 16, Masters with 14, or PhD with 8 years of CMC functional experience
• Prior experience in a relevant laboratory-based CMC function (chemistry, analytical, formulation, etc.) in order to assist CMC project teams in the planning, preparation, review and approval of submission documents.
• 6+ years in a cross-functional project / program management role. Strong program management skills and knowledge of program management practices in the pharmaceutical industry and common tools utilized
• Change management experience in implementing cross-functional/organizational initiatives
• Well-developed communication skills – both written and oral
• Well-developed strategic thinking and leadership skills
• Prior people management experience, preferred
• Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry preferred

Key Stakeholders 

Cross-functional members of asset teams including ASLs and PPM, functional leaders within Development Sciences, R&D Finance

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. ​

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. ​

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