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.
Leverage the power of data to accelerate change across people, processes and technology by exposing areas of opportunity and driving execution through the delivery teams (system change) or business (process change). Drive Process Optimization and Re-engineering methodology and approach compliance from planning through execution, delivery, and monitoring.
In this role you will be responsible for:
+ Possesses functional process expertise and effectively navigates the organization to secure/confirm incremental understanding, knowledge and insights.
+ Fosters business and technology relationships that encourage trust, collaboration, and joint accountability. Integrates activities across BTS departments to ensure support of the initiative approach, project efforts, and successful implementation. Manages relationships between Internal Customers, Supporting Stakeholder groups, BTS organizations, and External Partners to assure effective communication and progress between groups is occurring.
+ Identifies current-state baselines, and hones targeted, future-state metrics to drive optimal business outcomes (with the process owner and others) through data driven insights. 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.
+ Collaborates with business functional stakeholders 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 desired capabilities leveraging existing systems and technologies.
+ Conducts capability demonstrations. Makes recommendations to business stakeholders regarding the defined 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 education of and negotiation with business stakeholders to deliver business transformation roadmaps through data-driven facts for the area of responsibility. Also, focus on alignment on execution and delivery of the roadmap from an operational excellence point of view including overall health, re-prioritization, etc. through business executive sponsors and BTS leadership team.
+ Champions change and innovation. Acts as a change agent and influences stakeholders on best practices, technology trends, etc. to deliver optimal outcomes 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 looks for opportunities for cost avoidance and reductions.
+ Leading People: Responsible for people leadership within matrix organization; setting expectations, coaching and counseling extending team members without direct reporting relationship. Confronts and deals with employee issues in a constructive and timely manner. 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 8+ years’ experience; Master’s degree with 7+ years’ experience; PhD with 3+ 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 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
+ 4+ years of ERP implementation (SAP or Oracle) as business system consultant or/and solution architect or project lead.
+ 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, consumer goods, etc.
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. ?
AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran