Director, Global Engineering Strategy and Planning

Responsibilities

• Lead experienced team of project engineers in scenario development and capital cost estimation for projects ranging from $1MM - $200MM.
• Accountable for all processes, policies and procedures related to Capital Planning.
• Responsible for Operations-wide capital planning processes for all financial cycles (LRP, Plan, Update) with a total annual investment spend of >$400MM.
• Responsible for asset utilization modeling and development of multi-year investment strategies for a global network of 27 manufacturing Sites.
• Conduct and record benchmarking of capital cost estimation best practices within AbbVie, professional associations, A&E firms and other peer companies.
• Team to lead and coordinate objective criticality scoring of Site level projects delivering network-wide investment prioritization.
• Establish and maintain relationships with Sr. Operations functional leaders (QA, Central Services, S&T, BTS, etc.) to support development of functional capital plans and provide engineering support.
• Interface with Sites (leadership and engineering) to assemble and maintain library of capability and capacity information to inform investment decisions and strategy.
• Build partnership with S&T/R&D to ensure network technology preparedness to support the Pipeline and influence key decisions impactful to process design early in the product development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree: Engineering.
• Masters Degree: Master of Management or Master in Business Administration, preferred.
• 10-15 years experience in Engineering and/or Manufacturing Management required.

Key Stakeholders

• SVP, Internal Manufacturing and Engineering;
• Regional VPs Manufacturing;
• VP, Global Engineering

Purpose

Provide leadership for the capital planning and strategy development aspects of the Global Engineering function. This includes leading the development of ongoing capital investment strategy for the global manufacturing network (IME) and oversight of the capital planning processes for all of AbbVie Operations.