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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 X (https://twitter.com/abbvieireland) , Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvieireland/) , YouTube and LinkedIn

Job Description

We're looking for the next great idea. For first-in-kind innovations. For insights that lead to breakthroughs.

Welcome to AbbVie

We are now recruiting an Assoc. Director, Digital Manufacturing Solutions & Strategies to join our diverse Global Digital Strategy team in Ireland, Germany and/or the US.

Reporting directly to the Director, Network Digital Strategy, you will lead the development of AbbVie manufacturing sites digital strategies that support business goals across the manufacturing network. Your role will have an impact and influence other sites with varying manufacturing modalities.

You will also provide leadership to develop enterprise technology strategies including the rollout of new solutions to support business goals for AbbVie’s manufacturing network and may also have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain.

Your main objectives, which are defined in collaboration with senior domain leadership and Network Digital Strategy Director with results assessed from a 2-3 year perspective, are to;

• build a collaborative partnership with technology, site and functional domain senior leadership.

• develop and guide delivery of comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs.

Is this a team you want to be part of? Then read on…

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategy & Influence: Work with multiple sites to make significant contributions to development of their strategy. Develops, adapts and executes strategies to achieve key objectives.

• Process Improvement & Optimization: Makes significant contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements.

• Make decisions that have an effect on financial, employee and/ or public relations posture of Abbvie.

• Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/ or technology senior leadership and vice presidents. Interacts well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

• Culture: Consistently demonstrate AbbVie's Ways of Working and Leadership

• Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies. This role has accountability for the performance and results of strategically important projects and programs.

• Builds strategic partnerships to further departmental and organizational objectives. Collaboration with key stakeholders of a sites Digital Strategy which include Global BTS, Factory of the Future, Lab of the Future, Regional Directors and any other relevant party.

• Guidance and leadership of site and/or network Digital Transformation activities ensuring the adoption and nurture a culture of continuous improvement is demonstrated in both of business processes and personnel development.

• People Management: May be required to manage a team of direct employees or contractors within multiple business and/or technology domains.

• Resource Management: Responsible for making significant contributions to the development resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domain.

• Impact: Make decisions that have an effect on financial, employee and/or public relations posture of Abbvie.

Qualifications

So, what do you need to do this role?

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in an appropriate Science, Engineering or Business Discipline is required. Masters degree in relevant industry discipline preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in the Pharmaceutical Manufacturing industry, with relevant managerial experience plus experience of executing strategic business projects.

• 3+ years experience working in IT/OT environment with direct manufacturing exposure

• 3+ years of demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to deliver projects on schedule, within budget, and meeting the predefined quality requirements.

• 3+ years of direct people management experience at management level.

• Strong strategy development and planning skills coupled with necessary knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing activities.

• Effectively connects employee and ME&C functional goals to business and/ or overall Abbvie goals.

• Thought leader within multiple technology and/ or business domains.

• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/ or relevant business domain preferred.

So, does this all sound like the right role for you? Then come join AbbVie!

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, or any other legally protected group status.

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, or any other legally protected group status.