Senior Director, Portfolio Planning & Analytics

Job Description

Shape the future of how AbbVie plans and manages its R&D portfolio, leading the integration of portfolio planning, analytics, AI, data, and technology to drive faster, higher-quality decisions. This highly visible leadership role combines enterprise influence with the opportunity to build enduring capabilities that directly impact portfolio performance and the delivery of innovative medicines to patients.

The Senior Director, Portfolio Planning and Analytics is a highly empowered enterprise leader accountable for building and leading a world-class planning and analytics organization. The role develops scalable and sustainable strategies that drive high-quality planning and enables informed decision making across the AbbVie enterprise.

Responsibilities:

• Set the vision for Planning and Analytics at AbbVie in close collaboration with leadership across R&D. Serve as a trusted advisor and relationship-builder across R&D, Commercial, Finance, IT/BTS, and senior AbbVie leadership, providing data-driven insights and recommendations that support portfolio prioritization, investment decisions, and long-range planning.
• Cultivate a high performing pipeline planning organization responsible for high-quality data stewardship in Planisware or future portfolio planning systems and employ best in class program management capabilities around scenario planning and critical path analyses to drive acceleration across AbbVie’s high-priority programs.
• Identify existing and future business needs and deploy next generation technology and process to enable enterprise data analytics on pace with emerging integrated data sources.
• Define and lead the data, digital, and technology strategy for the R&D organization's portfolio performance and business excellence function, translating technical strategy into business value. Oversee the prioritized technology roadmap with short- and long-term goals in partnership with key stakeholders and leveraging internal and external data sources and market intelligence to enable innovative technology solutions that support AbbVie's shared vision of delivering impactful treatments to patients.
• Champion the adoption of artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and emerging insight-generation platforms to transform and modernize AbbVie's end-to-end planning processes.
• Serves as the senior leader for the Planning Platform, accountable for strategic direction, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and delivery of business value.
• Influence AbbVie’s enterprise data governance as a steward of portfolio data and other sources that are utilized and analyzed by the planning & analytics team and cross-functional partners. Influence data owners from across R&D as well as areas that collaborate with R&D to drive holistic approach to planning and systems.
• Build and maintain a high-performing team of innovative, solutions focused entrepreneurs who thrive on pushing beyond established boundaries to create the process/technology of the future.
• Represent AbbVie externally within the Planning & Analytics space to drive industry conversations, while bringing best practices back to AbbVie.
• Serve on the Portfolio Performance and Business Excellence Senior Leadership Team to provide guidance on direction and operations of the department, and to protect and preserve the AbbVie culture.
• Monitor emerging trends across the external technology and analytics environment. Assess impacts on current and future strategies.

Qualifications

• Degree in business, a scientific discipline, information technology, data science or a related field required. A master’s degree or PhD is preferred.
• 10+ years of management experience, 5+ years of analytics experience within the pharmaceutical industry; R&D experience is preferred
• Leadership acumen including emotional intelligence and business awareness. Ability to effectively collaborate and influence throughout multiple levels of the organization.
• Expertise in current and emerging technologies (e.g. Data Visualizations, Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, etc.)
• Exceptional ability to drive innovation and deploy technology in new ways within a changing environment
• Proficient in systems and technologies required (eg Planisware, Cognos BI, QlikView, etc..)
• Demonstrated value-driven leadership skills and expertise in building organizations
• Ability to attract, challenge, develop and retain specialized talent with expertise in R&D, portfolio planning, analytics and technology

Additional Information

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