Portfolio Program Manager

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

In AbbVie Business Technology Solutions, we are shaping the digital transformation accelerating the future of medicine - and doing it together, asking bold questions and taking on tough challenges through deep, honest collaboration. Our Business Technology Solutions team delivers projects for R&D. For anyone who wants to manage projects and programs that make a difference in people's lives, we're ready for you!

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. Quality Management: Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Initiate and Plan IT Projects: Works with business and IT management to establish and gain consensus on project goals, objectives and deliverables.

• Project Control: Assess the degree to which changes to scope, issues and risks will affect projects working with division and cross divisional management and sponsor to gain agreement for resolution. Measure performance to assure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget.

• Executing and Closing Projects: Develops and executes a work plan obtaining authorized resources to ensure all activities are performed. Gather lessons learned and obtain final project approval from sponsor and stakeholders.

• Project Communication: Communicate project progress by producing project reports to provide timely and accurate project status and decision support information to Project Team, Division, Cross Division and Executive management. Makes recommendations based on current project status to resolve issues.

• Resource and Team Management: Coordinate resources to ensure project needs are addressed and effectively assign tasks and deliverables to team members based upon their abilities. Supervises, motivates and mentor cross-functional /cross divisional project team of project managers, business analysts, developers, and validation analysts.

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or Master's degree with 7+ years of experience, or PhD with 3+ years of experience in project and budget management.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and well-developed verbal and written communication skills.

• Strong organizational capabilities with ability to manage multiple priorities

• Strong critical thinking skills

Beneficial:

• Work experience in the pharmaceutical industry.

Why Business Technology Solutions

For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people's lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we're ready for you.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants