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Associate Director, Business Intelligence/Optimization Consultant

at AbbVie in North Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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

Designed to deliver a realistic business transformation roadmap by demonstrating the power of structured process optimization and re-engineering practices. Process engineers bring a clear and systematic way of linking business value opportunities to tangible execution, delivery, and results. They also leverage data-driven facts to identify, quantify and provide a clear representation of the current state and potential for optimized future state business processes.

Leads and influence multi-stakeholder functions to bring optimization and re-engineering to life by providing the right insights, clear impact analysis and high impact solutions for OES stakeholders. Use a structured and disciplined approach to gather data to identify, qualify and plan for a wide variety of opportunities that will be prioritized with the business. Continuously looking to simplify and rationalize the value stream and allow to constantly grow, adapt, and unlock value to outperform the current state.

Drives the compliance of Process Optimization and Re-engineering methodology and approach from planning, execution, delivery, and monitoring for a multi-stakeholder and cross-functional set of capabilities.

In this role you will be responsible for:

+ Leads business unit clients to understand specific business needs, processes, business drivers and business strategy across multiple business units, regions or affiliates; identifies and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via process re-engineering or technology; aligns with solution delivery team to ensure the execution and implementation of right capabilities of existing systems and technologies.

+ Makes data-driven suggestions complete with expected ROI with full, objective visibility into your process gaps and how to fix them – driving stakeholder buy-in and alignment.

+ Identifies current-state baselines, and hone targeted, future-state metrics to drive the best business outcomes (with the process owner and others). Also, leverages expertise in broad disciplines to define the future state and drive execution through delivery teams and satellite application while ensuring successful implementation and delivery.

+ Leads capability demonstrations. Makes recommendations to business stakeholders regarding the correct approach to achieve process improvement objectives through data-drive insights. Facilitates assessment workshops with delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure full impact analysis. These may include application development or business process transformation and optimization (e.g., BPM practices, etc).

+ Drives negotiation across multiple business stakeholders to deliver business transformation roadmaps through data-driven facts.

+ Develops business relationships and integrates activities with other BTS departments to ensure successful implementation and support of initiative approach and project efforts. Manages relationships between Internal Customers, Supporting Stakeholder groups, BTS organizations, and External Partners to assure effective communication and progress between the groups is occurring.

+ Brokers services within BTS community to align on execution and delivery of the roadmap from an operational excellence point of view including overall health, re-prioritization, etc. by engaging stakeholder groups.

+ Champions change and innovation. Acts as a change agent and influence stakeholders on best practices, technology trends, etc. to deliver the right outcome to improve the value stream.

Tools and skills you will use in this role:

+ Strategic Thinking: Understands corporation’s vision, goals and strategies to maximize value stream delivery.

+ Compliance: Ensures compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

+ Budget Management: Negotiates, secures, oversees & ensures that resources are available to meet the long-range operational demands of the overall roadmaps as well as individual project, initiative or capability; Continually look for opportunities for cost avoidance and cost reductions.

+ Leading People: Responsible for people leadership within a matrix organization or by directing others without a direct reporting relationship; setting expectations, coaching and counseling team members or extended team members. Confronts and deals with employee issues in a constructive and timely manner. May be responsible for morale of project or initiative team and must promote cohesive attitude. Establishes staffing/resource plans, determining appropriate mix of sourcing opportunities (outsourcing, offshoring and hot skills).

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required

+ Engineering Bachelor’s Degree with 9+ years’ experience; Master’s degree with 8 years’ experience; PhD with 4 years’ experience. Experience in the areas of information systems, project management, business and process experience, resource and team development, strategic technology area development.

+ 2-4 years supervisory experience.

+ 4-6 years overall experience with end-to-end process optimization and re-engineering or operating model design & transformation in the areas of Finance, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain or Quality.

+ Understand business processes and value stream concepts including BPM (Business Process Management) solutions

+ 6+ years of ERP implementation (SAP or Oracle) as business system consultant or/and solution architect or project lead.

+ Make strategic decisions that are future facing and positively impact organization.

+ Knowledge and experience on agile methodology and tools/artifacts like Jira, etc.

+ Experience on digital transformation including technology like automation (UiPath) and process mining (e.g. Celonis, Signovio, etc)

Beneficial

+ Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Additional Information

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. ?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our long-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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Job Posting: JC262510440

Posted On: Jul 12, 2024

Updated On: Jul 17, 2024

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