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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Senior Program Manager, Factory of the Future (FotF) Transformation will be responsible for transformation program delivery across various aspects including budgetary control, program execution and program staging. This role will lead program deliverables for FotF across site transformations, foundational technology and high impact use cases. As part of the FotF leadership team, this role will support the development of long-range plan strategy and execution plans. The Senior Program Manager will also support subsequent site discovery and creation of cost/execution models. The individual will successfully manage large global projects across disciplines and actively promote transformation culture and change management as part of the FotF evolution.

Responsibilities

• Oversee FotF budgets across all execution projects (>25MM annually)

• Develop project plans across multiple stakeholders to support execution of FotF goals, commencing with pilot transformation in AP-16

• Drive growth of project management execution team as required to support multiple concurrent site transformations

• Actively participate in FotF discovery efforts for site transformations, and support development of DCFROI and high level program execution per site/technology region transformation

• Champion change culture associated with FotF transformation initiatives.

• Oversee and proactively measure KPIs associated with FotF project execution.

• Develop and advance FotF-type tools to support lean project execution and reporting.

• Own communication and report on project execution to executive level.

• Cultivate a culture of transparency across project execution, fostering effective stakeholder management and conflict resolution.

• Provide technical input, leading to shape the overall strategies for the front end planning, due diligence and technical feasibility assessments for potential new product introductions.

• Implement site transfers, new indications, new presentations and lifecycle projects for on market programs on time and within budget.

• Proactively identify and drive technical and project plan related issues to closure by working with all relevant functional lines and effectively troubleshooting and driving decisions.

• Manage multiple projects concurrently, operating with minimal supervision.

• Understand project drivers, requirements, scenarios and options. Proactively drive development of contingency and/or risk mitigation plans.

• Manage competing timelines and make difficult decisions regarding priorities among projects.

• Effectively communicate and present project status to Operations senior leadership and stakeholders. Be accountable for setting program and project plans, including timelines and expenses, that meet business and organizational objectives and ensuring those plans are achieved.

• Define budget requirements and report monthly actuals, LBE, and Plan/LRP schedules per financial schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, science, or closely related discipline, or equivalent technical experience plus demonstrated competence

• 10+ years of combined experience in positions related to process development, project management, engineering/process support and manufacturing

• Must have strong knowledge of GMP Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Validation, Engineering, CMC technical development and pharmaceutical regulations

• Must have demonstrated organizational and planning skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Must have demonstrated strong project management skills with successful delivery of projects

• Must be able to effectively facilitate the resolution of complex scientific, technical, analytical and business issues across functional lines

• Plant experience a must

• PMP certification a plus

• Proficiency in multiple languages a plus

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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• 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​

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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. ​

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Salary: $117,500 - $223,500