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Global Business Process Lead

AbbVie

North Chicago, ILOnsitePosted 1 day agoUSD 109500 - USD 208500 yearly
Full TimeSenior LevelOperations & Supply ChainPharmaceutical
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Summary

The Global Business Process Lead, Supply Chain Transformation plays a key role in advancing AbbVie's supply chain capabilities through process optimization, digital enablement, and transformation initiatives. This individual partners across business and technology teams to help define, shape, and deliver scalable solutions that improve operational performance, visibility, and decision quality across the global supply chain network.

Job description

Responsibilities

  • Support and drive strategic supply chain transformation initiatives spanning process redesign, system enhancements, digital enablement, data products, AI-related initiatives, and business integration.
  • Serve as the business process lead and translator between business and technology teams, helping translate operational needs into clear requirements, priorities, solution designs, and measurable outcomes.
  • Partner cross-functionally with stakeholders in Finance, Purchasing, Internal and Contract Manufacturing, and Master Data to identify challenges, dependencies, and opportunities for end-to-end improvement.
  • Design future-state processes and harmonized workflows that improve operational performance, visibility, compliance, service levels, and decision quality across the global supply chain.
  • Redesign roles and workflows around AI-supported decisions and AI agents, ensuring appropriate governance, accountability, controls, and human oversight.
  • Analyze performance gaps and use data-driven insights to recommend practical, scalable, and sustainable process and technology solutions.
  • Support business readiness and adoption through stakeholder engagement, change management, communications, training, and user-experience improvements.
  • Establish and promote best practices, process standards, and continuous-improvement approaches across global, functional, and local teams.
  • Build strong partnerships with internal teams and external stakeholders to coordinate implementation, resolve cross-functional issues, and sustain new capabilities.
  • Ensure plans, processes, controls, and outcomes align with applicable global, functional, and local regulations, government expectations, and established governance processes.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor level degree is required, in preferred fields such as Operations, Supply Chain, Business Management, or another related field.
  • A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, preferably in program management, with demonstrated ability to prioritize and execute work effectively in a high-pressure environment and a strong focus on process improvement and change management.
  • Experience in supply chain operations, process excellence, business transformation, or technology-enabled change.
  • Proven track record of driving global or cross-functional strategic initiatives.
  • Experience implementing technology solutions in a complex, global environment.
  • Excellent leadership, collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to influence at all levels of the organization and lead through ambiguity.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a global mindset and a passion for digital transformation.
  • Preferred experience in SAP Order to cash, SAP Extended warehouse management, SAP warehouse management, Distribution, transportation management and the associated business process areas of customer service, logistics, warehouse management and Transportation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor level degree required in Operations, Supply Chain, Business Management, or related field
  • Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
  • Experience in supply chain operations, process excellence, business transformation, or technology-enabled change
  • Proven track record of driving global or cross-functional strategic initiatives
  • Experience implementing technology solutions in a complex, global environment
  • Excellent leadership, collaboration, communication, and stakeholder management skills
  • Ability to influence at all levels of the organization and lead through ambiguity
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a global mindset
  • Preferred experience in SAP Order to Cash, SAP Extended Warehouse Management, SAP Warehouse Management, Distribution, and Transportation Management

Benefits

  • Paid time off
  • Medical, Dental & Vision
  • 401(k)
  • Short-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.

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