Associate Director, Product Development - R&D Devices

About Allergan Aesthetics
At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit www.AllerganAesthetics.com.

As a proven and experienced leader in program and project management, the Associate Director, Product Development is responsible for leading a variety of Development Projects assigned  within the CoolSculpting® technology portfolio.  The Associate Director Product Development works closely with functional leaders in planning resources, resolving conflicts and improving processes to ensure company commitments are met. The individual is a champion of cross functional collaboration, and drives processes that help the business define and compares competing opportunities, and executes on chosen projects leveraging mature and proven project management methodologies. This individual has a key responsibility to drive accountability and help identify appropriate trade-offs that ensure products are delivered on time, within budget and at the targeted maturity to ensure high manufacturing yields and market leading quality and reliability.

In addition, this individual is expected to provide input and ideas as part of product roadmap and technology planning processes, and demonstrate strong business acumen with a customer centric perspective.

Responsibilities include:

• Plans and directly manages complex cross functional projects that may include external resources and contracted companies.
• Works closely with product development functional management, and other non engineering functions to gain resource commitments and resolve issues.
• Formulates Design and Development Plans in consultation with cross functional team leaders.
• Liaises with Project Management Office to provide project performance metrics, budget management and tracking, variances to development plan and identification of corrective actions.
• Co-ordinates between projects, maximizes synergies, and helps resolves resource conflicts.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen with a customer centric perspective.

 

Qualifications

• BS degree required.  MS degree preferred – Engineering (concentration in  Engineering Management).
• 10+ years in a project management role
• 25+ technical experience in an engineering design, NPI, manufacturing and engineering leadership

Significant Work Activities
N/A
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
IC
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.
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.