Associate Director, Transformation
AbbVie
Summary
The Innovation, Insights & Transformation (IIT) group partners closely with the AbbVie executive team to advance key strategic priorities across the organization. The Associate Director of Transformation will support major change initiatives and drive organizational transformation to enable AbbVie's strategic and operational objectives. This role partners with senior stakeholders to design, implement, and sustain transformation programs that accelerate business outcomes, improve operational efficiency, and enhance organizational agility.
Job description
Responsibilities
- Lead workstreams as part of strategic transformation initiatives (both AI-driven and non-AI focused) across the enterprise, managing and driving alignment among stakeholders across the enterprise including senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners.
- Lead individual modules within complex initiatives, including researching and problem-solving with stakeholders, distilling insights and pragmatic recommendations to inform data-backed solutions to mission-critical topics for AbbVie's future success.
- Areas of focus include product development and manufacturing, organizational transformation, AI and digital acceleration, clinical trial acceleration, functional and asset strategy.
- Prepare executive-level communications and present recommendations to AbbVie leadership.
- Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and agility within AbbVie.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or equivalent degree required.
- Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
- Minimum years of experience: 4+ with Bachelors, 3+ with Masters and 2+ with PhD in a competitive, fast paced environment such as management consulting, pharmaceutical R&D, and/or manufacturing.
- Highly preferred: experience with AI applications and their deployment at enterprise scale.
- Professional experience at a product-focused technology company, especially with an AI/ML focused role.
- Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization as a consultant to a pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
- Demonstrated ability to present data and metrics to executive leadership teams that will lead to better business outcomes.
- Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.
- Proven performance in a matrix environment with ability to influence and align stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Ability to interact externally and internally to support business strategy.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure that balanced risk assessments are made.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
This role is a hybrid work model requiring three (3) days onsite, Tuesday through Thursday, in the respective AbbVie offices.
Requirements
- Bachelors or equivalent degree required
- Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred
- Minimum 4+ years experience with Bachelors, 3+ with Masters, 2+ with PhD in management consulting, pharmaceutical R&D, and/or manufacturing
- Experience with AI applications and their deployment at enterprise scale preferred
- Professional experience at a product-focused technology company, especially with an AI/ML focused role
- Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization as a consultant to a pharmaceutical organization
- Demonstrated ability to present data and metrics to executive leadership teams
- Proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment
- Proven performance in a matrix environment with ability to influence and align stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to interact externally and internally to support business strategy
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k)
- Long-term incentive programs
Company overview
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie has established itself as a leader in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and virology. The company's flagship product, Humira (adalimumab), was one of the world's top-selling drugs for treating autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. AbbVie maintains a robust pipeline of innovative medicines and has expanded its portfolio through strategic acquisitions, including Allergan in 2020. With research facilities across the United States and globally, AbbVie focuses on advancing science to improve patient outcomes while maintaining strong commercial operations worldwide. The company operates with a patient-centric approach and invests significantly in research and development to address unmet medical needs across multiple therapeutic areas.