BTS Director (Hybrid)

Role Summary

The Director has a critical leadership role within AbbVie R&D Information Research. This position is part of the Business Technology Solutions organization and is responsible for business relationship management, technology project delivery, and strategic planning. The director will work with Vice Presidents and senior leaders in a dynamic, matrixed environment to understand medical strategy and identify ways that technology can make a remarkable impact. This position will lead a global organization of 14+ employees in addition to contractors and will report into the Sr. Director of Information Research. Provide leadership to deliver technology strategies that support business goals. This role will have impact and influence within the Medical Affairs global domain.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Influence: Works with domain senior leadership and makes contributions to develop strategy. Adapts and executes domain strategic plans.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: Drives opportunities to improve process and/or technology.
• Decisions & Policies: Makes key decisions that are guided by established strategies and priorities. Influences operating policies and procedures that affect the domain. Interprets enterprise-wide policies, processes and procedures that may affect teams and domain workflow.
• People Management: Manages a team(s) of managers and senior managers who have significant latitude and autonomy in their assignments.
• Impact: Make decisions that are long lasting and heavily influence the future course of the business and/or technology domain.
• Resource Management: Responsible for making contributions to the development of the domain resource management strategy and organizational structure.
• Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leaders. Interactions focus on project and operational decisions. Interacts well with diverse groups within function 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. Effectively manages performance, provides timely feedback, appropriately rewards and recognizes valuable achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies. This role has accountability for the performance and results strategically important functions.
• Exceptional executive presence, communication and interpersonal skills, with proven ability to build trust and ask effective questions. Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels
• Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members.
• Track record of successfully delivering large, complex, IT projects.
• In-depth knowledge of IT pricing and contracting practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 10 years of experience OR Master’s degree with 9 years experience OR PhD with 5 years experience minimum
• Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall Abbvie goals. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members.
• Experience managing teams of at least 10 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors and managed service providers.
• Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels.
• Subject matter expert in technology and/or business domain.
• Experience managing a budget of at least $10 million.
• Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred.

Education

• Degree requirements as listed above (Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD with specified experience).