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Director, Business Technology Solutions - Supply Chain Global Distribution and Logistics

Employer
AbbVie
Location
Lake County, Illinois
Start date
May 22, 2023

Job Details

Purpose:

Goal: Provide leadership to deliver technology strategies that support business goals. The overarching leader will lead/understand our operational backbone technologies, the capability to digitally enable this area of our supply chain and drive the user adoption thru technologies that engage and deliver for our business owners. This role will have impact and influence on the Distribution & Logistics areas of Abbvie. The role builds collaborative partnerships with technology and functional domain stakeholders. It delivers comprehensive technology strategies and solutions addressing prioritized business problems along with innovation needs that include the segmentation of our portfolio and digitization of our technologies.  Our D&L technologies support and operating the global portfolio thru a system of internal and external systems & partners and deliver the entire portfolio of AbbVie’s finished goods to our patients.    

Responsibilities:

  • Experienced leader in developing technology and business strategies while aligning talent across the technology (BTS) organization and functional supply chain areas of Distribution Planning & Global Logistics.
  • Transformation & Teamwork are keys as Supply Chain moves into a digital age.  Skilled at leading digital transformation and IT modernization initiatives - transforming our portfolio delivery model to a platform-based approach is critical to this role. Control Tower, Command Center, and automated capabilities are key technical delivery skills.
  • Example platform models include – Cloud, Hosted, SAAS, and packaged business/technology services.  These platforms and programs span all global geographies and business units of Abbvie.
  • Aligns and leads with functional counterparts and other BTS resources to help ensure demand management and prioritization, architecture alignment, vendor management, security management, master data management, knowledge management, communications management, and disaster recovery. Agile team leadership and CI mind-sets are required
  • Develops strong business relationships and demonstrates business process knowledge expertise in planning software. Strongly influences functional strategies while prioritizing spend needs with within BTS
  • Prepares functionally aligned long-range and annual plans which include development cost estimates, budgets, investment returns, and schedules. Prepares and presents project proposals to management and business partner executives.
  • The ability to attract a wide range of talents and skilled backgrounds that enhance the planning and forecasting capabilities
  • Ability to scale a technology team that enables and embeds planning systems expertise and the adoption of IT skills in the following areas:  AI, Machine Learning, Data & Analytics, and RPA as examples
  • Ability to develop multiple delivery strategies – Including Agile, build programs, and align execution across multiple BTS partners along with internal and external technology organization.  Fosters and creates a collaborative transformational team regardless of function or company.

 

 


Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 10+ years of experience.  Master’s degree (MBA) and work experience in the functional and pharmaceutical industry preferred.
  • 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.
  • Experience in multiple deliver models – Agile, waterfall, others
  • Leadership of architectural transformation and modernization of on-premise and cloud-based platforms
  •  Ability to build consensus business-case ROI’s and insert technology solutions into ongoing solutions that drive organizational transformation.
  • Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred.  Digital supply chain, Distribution systems, logistics platforms network transformation technologies Visibility, operational metrics, and technology solution performance.

 

Key Stakeholders:  Vice President Distribution & Logistics, Analytics Director for Supply Chain, and Regional Logistics & Distribution Directors.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer including disability/vets. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because 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, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran or active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, or any other protected group status. We will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified minorities, women, individuals with a disability, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans or active-duty wartime or campaign badge veterans. The Affirmative Action Plan is available for viewing in the Human Resources office during regular business hours.


Company

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, and YouTube.

Stock Symbol: ABBV

Stock Exchange: NYSE

Company info
Website
Phone
1-800-255-5162
Location
1 North Waukegan Road
North Chicago
Illinois
60064
US

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