Director R&D Development Sciences IT AbbVie Chicago

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The Director, R&D Development Sciences IT is a critical leadership role for AbbVie IT. This position provides leadership to deliver and support key strategies, system functionality and system support for AbbVie’s R&D Development Sciences Organization. This position provides the strategic and tactical IT leadership to achieve business and enterprise operating objectives, including system delivery and support of key business solutions

Key responsibilities include the stewarding of global solutions, driving the delivery of a transformative business systems strategy, building and maintaining collaborative relationships with all stakeholders, and having an enterprise mindset that solves end-to-end business problems. Thought leadership in supporting the scientific lab workflow, data analysis and drug supply chain management.

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for overall IT relationship with the business. Ensure that project delivery and production support activities meet client requirements; serve as the IT escalation point for business customers

• Manage technology-related communications to stakeholders within the business

• Liaison to business customers bridging the connection with IT colleagues to address infrastructure, support or other enterprise-wide IT needs

• Responsible for defining and executing a business-aligned IT strategy and roadmap that will enable a world class R&D Development Sciences organizations in alignment with overall AbbVie IT and R&D IT strategies

• Consult and influence on strategic business goals and objectives melding current knowledge and future vision of technology and systems with a deep understanding of clinical research for competitive advantage

• Drives and define technology objectives and recommend industry-leading solutions to support business needs. Identifies technology solutions to support business growth, productivity and agility

• Facilitate prioritization of technology needs with business partners. Balancing emerging capabilities with current technology stacks based on business value and identify trade-offs

• Actively engage with the business to identify strategic business improvement opportunities

• Responsible for the development and implementation of large scale complex programs including: business case, governance structures and accountability, service strategies, program plans, goals and metrics, processes, change management, vendor management, competitive benchmarking, and communications.

• Value Management-ensure that value creation occurs within scope, schedule and budget allotted the projects within the portfolio.

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

Roles

• Responsible for managing a geographically dispersed team of internal resources, contractors and Vendors to ensure proper alignment and delivery of business / IT objectives.

• Interface with other IT groups to ensure successful alignment and enablement of R&D Development Sciences

• Represents IT on various R&D Development Sciences leadership teams

• Fiscally accountable for the delivery of programs & projects

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