Coordinator, Innovation

About AbbVie
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

The Enterprise Innovation group works side-by-side with the AbbVie executive team on many of the most pressing issues facing the organization, both in the short term and long term. Guidance from this team will have a direct impact on the future success of AbbVie.<br/>As a Coordinator, Enterprise Innovation, you will support the leaders of Enterprise Innovation to optimize the value of our portfolio of current and future assets. Specifically, this support will focus on talent evaluation, development, recruitment and coordination, vendor assessment and coordination for enabling capabilities, as well as day to day coordination of Function initiatives.                   

Responsibilities:

• Work cross functionally with other functions on project coordination, tracking project requirements and progress; recognize function business needs, and requirements to ensure function procedure is updated to support changing business need.
• Support function leadership with project pipeline coordination, track project progress, help evaluate and prioritize potential roadblocks, and maintain up to date view of accomplishments.
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition Team, finance, consulting firm and BHR on status of talent pipeline, headcount requirements, new employee timeline and assist the team with people development opportunities. Alert the team of any changes in status.
• New Hire Orientation and On-boarding:
  • Coordinate and execute all aspects of bringing on a new employee including scheduling orientation, managing office space with Office Services, IT, and executing onboarding schedule.
• Help manage and track talent pipeline from Introduction calls, interviews, debriefs, and offer process in a timely manner.
• Performs project coordination duties for and on behalf of the VP of Enterprise Innovation. Owns follow-up actions for unresolved questions with appropriate sense of urgency. Completes follow-up informational calls, follow ups for next steps, emails and/or case updates to key stakeholders, and manages function communication plans.
• Coordinate Innovation All staff meetings: setting agenda, prepare any supporting content as needed, following up with presenters to have materials available, and track action items to completion.
• Support members of Enterprise Innovation with planning cross-functional workshops, meetings, trainings, and events.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or equivalent degree highly preferred. Associates degree required.
• 3-5 Years Administrative experience, 1-3 years of experience in coordinating and supporting teams and projects.
• Exceptional professional interpersonal skills and must have the ability to interact with senior executives comfortably.
• Strong project management, time management skills and the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work independently in a low-structure environment; willingness to proactively seek guidance when appropriate.

Significant Work Activities
N/A
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
IC
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis 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, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.