Director, Strategic Planning & Operations

About the role

This role serves as Chief of Staff for the designated functional VP/Head, overseeing the collection, synthesis, and communication of relevant information that informs the departmental and functional strategy. It involves supporting the designated department leader in the development of overarching strategy and working closely with the leader in the day-to-day.

Responsibilities

• Serves as Chief of Staff for the designated functional VP/Head.
• Oversees the collection, synthesis, and communication of relevant information that informs the departmental and functional strategy.
• Sets, amplifies, and executes integrated strategies aligned to the overarching business priorities/strategies and goals.
• Understands the operational objectives, methods, and processes set forth by the Clinical Sciences leadership team and Strategic Operations organization, ensuring departments also understand and support established processes.
• Creates strong relationships with Strategic Operations colleagues and functional colleagues to optimize collaboration across Clinical Sciences (all for one Clin Sci mindset).
• Develops, implements, and tracks priority activities and initiatives of strategic importance.
• Anticipates and leads issue resolution.
• Coordinates, monitors, evaluates, and works to optimize departmental operational excellence within the designated function and across Clinical Sciences.
• Identifies, plans, leads, and tracks priority activities and initiatives of strategic importance.
• Liaises with other departments and functions within AbbVie to foster strategic partnerships, opportunity identification and realization, and issue resolution.
• Leads function communications including strategic objectives and messages, communication planning, material development, and facilitation/delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor/master’s/advanced degree in science or Business-related Field, with 5+ years experience in a similar role (i.e. Chief of Staff).
• Objective strategic thinker with a demonstrated drive for results.
• Analytical orientation and comfortable with ambiguity and complexity.
• Dependable, trusted leader who is used to dealing with confidential information.
• Connects the dots and influences across a complex organization.
• Excellent Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills and relationship building experience.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, and mentoring/coaching skills.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, great at packaging information depending on audience.
• Basic knowledge of project management practices, portfolio review, finance, and budgeting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor/master’s/advanced degree in science or Business-related Field, with 5+ years experience in a similar role (i.e. Chief of Staff).
• Objective strategic thinker with a demonstrated drive for results.
• Analytical orientation and comfortable with ambiguity and complexity.
• Dependable, trusted leader who is used to dealing with confidential information.
• Connects the dots and influences across a complex organization.
• Excellent Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills and relationship building experience.
• Strong leadership, negotiation, and mentoring/coaching skills.
• Strong communication skills, oral and written, great at packaging information depending on audience.
• Basic knowledge of project management practices, portfolio review, finance, and budgeting.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and execution.
• Collaborative leadership.
• Confidentiality and trustworthiness.
• Emotional intelligence and relationship building.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Project management and budgeting.

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick).
• Medical/dental/vision insurance.
• 401(k) plan.

Pay

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Schedule

Not specified.