Associate Director, Transformation Program Management

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions 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 including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

About the role

The Associate Director, Transformation Program Management, leads and is accountable for successful delivery of large-scale transformation programs and strategic initiatives across the organization. This role builds strategies and implementation plans to drive business transformation, operational excellence, and continuous improvement to support departmental and enterprise-wide objectives. The Associate Director will serve as a key contributor in program planning, stakeholder engagement, and outcome delivery, ensuring that projects meet their objectives related to efficiency, agility, and business value.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage complex cross-functional project and program teams, overseeing creation and maintenance of key artifacts such as program charters, status reports, work plans, and stakeholder engagement models.
• Ensure program compliance with relevant corporate, quality, and operational policies and procedures.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships at all organizational levels, providing leadership to advance transformation priorities.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for transformational improvement using recognized methodologies (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen).
• Advise and strategize with executive sponsors and business leads on program direction, key decisions, and change management.
• Manage full program lifecycle: set team accountabilities, resolve issues and risks, and deliver regular executive updates/recommendations.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to implement new initiatives that drive productivity, compliance, efficiency, and business strategy.
• Ensure projects and programs are delivered on time, within scope, and with strong business impact.
• Oversee resources planning to meet critical program and day-to-day staffing needs, with dotted-line reporting to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Physical or Life Sciences, Pharmacy, or Engineering; Master’s Degree or PhD preferred.
• Certified Quality Engineer or formal training in quality engineering or statistics is preferred.
• 15+ years of combined experience in Manufacturing, QA, QC, R&D in pharmaceutical, biologics, device, or chemical industry.
• Basic understanding and working knowledge of the physical and chemical characteristics of the products, including raw materials, manufactured at the plant.
• Familiarity with use of statistical quality systems, electronic document management, and laboratory information management.
• Familiarity with Quality policies as well as cGMP and other regulatory requirements.
• Effective people management and communication skills necessary to supervise those reporting directly or through subordinates, establish and maintain effective working relationships among key individuals in manufacturing, materials management, engineering, product development, Quality Systems, Product QA, Quality Control, Information Systems, and Regulatory Affairs, and demonstrate sound judgment in evaluating and acting on day-to-day situations.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• 10+ years of supervisory/technical leadership experience.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Eligibility to participate in short-term incentive programs.