Director, BTS

Role Summary

Provide leadership to deliver technology strategies that support business goals within a single domain. Build partnerships with technology and functional domain stakeholders to deliver technology solutions addressing prioritized business problems and opportunities for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Influence: Works with domain senior leadership to develop and execute domain strategies.
• Process Improvement & Optimization: Drives opportunities to improve processes and/or technology.
• Decisions & Policies: Makes key decisions 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 with significant latitude and autonomy.
• Impact: Makes decisions that are long lasting and heavily influence the future course of the business and/or technology domain.
• Resource Management: Contributes to the development of the domain resource management strategy and organizational structure.
• Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leaders; focuses on project and operational decisions; maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
• Culture: Demonstrates AbbVie’s Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes, including an enterprise mindset and people leadership; manages performance, provides timely feedback, rewards and recognizes achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline; aligns with AbbVie’s vision, goals and strategies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 10+ years of experience. Master’s degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred. Will consider 14+ years of relevant experience in a related technical field.
• 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.