AbbVie

Associate Director, Supply Chain Brand

AbbVie • $150K — $180K *
North Chicago, IL 60064In-Person
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in STEM or related field; Master's degree or MBA preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience in operations, particularly in pharma or regulated life sciences.
  • High-level strategic thinker with excellent communication and influence skills at the executive level.
  • Strong expertise in data analytics to derive insights from metrics.
  • Proven ability to identify critical business issues from complex scenarios.
  • Significant experience in manufacturing or similar pharmaceutical environments.
  • Extensive leadership experience overseeing complex brand functions with strategic impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead operations for initiatives impacting $100+ million in sales.
  • Interface with a variety of stakeholders to ensure alignment on brand forecasts and initiatives.
  • Direct and present S&OP topics at the executive level, focusing on synergy between planning and performance oversight.
  • Oversee financial planning cycles, managing inventory alignment with strategic goals.
  • Manage lifecycle strategies in collaboration with cross-functional teams for seamless transitions.
  • Work alongside the Industrialization team to integrate developmental products into brand plans.
  • Align clinical drug supply with strategic trial needs, ensuring synchronization of supply and demand.

Benefits

  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k) plan for eligible employees.
  • Participation in long-term incentive programs.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Purpose:

Coordinates complex Supply Chain and Operations Teams to align with business goals, ensuring strategic contributions and compliance

Responsibilities
  • Lead complex operations impacting $100+million-dollar sales, interface with stakeholders, manage strategies, risk management, and lead negotiations.
  • Primary interface with a wide variety of functions in both Ops and Commercial. Ensures alignment on brand/product forecasts, as well as key cross functional project initiatives.
    (Commercial Directors, VPs, and SVPs)
  • Directs and presents S&OP topics at the executive level across functions, driving synergy between demand and supply planning, with comprehensive oversight of operational performance via KPIs and other targets. Develops and drives strategies to ensure long term continuity of supply.
  • Oversees and aligns the financial planning cycle, including LRP and annual Plan, while managing inventory and ensuring synchronization of strategic goals with financial planning across functions.
  • Leads lifecycle management with a strategic view, ensuring changes align with business goals and collaborating with cross-functional teams for smooth transitions. Creates change plans and supply chain assessments in executiong lifecycle programs.
  • Interacts with the Industrialization team to ensure strategic integration of developmental products into brand planning, aligning timelines and resource allocation with operational strategies.
  • Directs alignment between brand and Clinical Drug Supply Management to meet strategic trial needs, ensuring synchronization of supply chain and clinical demand planning.
  • Oversees interaction with PPDST and Asset Strategy Teams ensuring collaborative strategy development, aligning product roadmaps and brand positioning with asset strategies.
  • Direct leadership which through mentoring and development of emerging talent, fosters a culture of collaboration and accountability within teams.


Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree (preferred STEM or similar area, Masters preferred including MBA); 10+ years of experience. Requires high-level strategic thinking, excellent communication, shaping discussion and influencing at the executive level, and large-scale change management skills.
  • Operations experience preferred; in pharma / regulated life sciences business.
  • Strong knowledge in data analytics and telling a story through data.
  • Filtering and identifying the business critical aspects of a problem (separate the minor issues from the major issues)
  • Required manufacturing or other pharma experience.
  • Key Stakeholders: Director, Supply Chain Brand; VP positions across Supply Chain functions, including strong interactions with Commercial, Pipeline, Clinical Drug Supply Management, PPDST, and Asset Strategy stakeholders
  • Scope and Complexity: Extensive scope, leadership in complex operations, strategic impact, wide stakeholder interface, significant decision-making authority, closely aligning with Pipeline, Clinical Drug Supply, PPDST, and Asset Strategy strategies.
  • Experience Needs: Highest experience requirement among the previous positions (10+ years), overseeing a wide range of complex and strategic brand functions with impactful, multi-level management, ensuring harmonized alignments with Pipeline, Clinical, PPDST, and Asset Strategy operations.


Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
  • 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.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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AbbVie develops pharmaceuticals and medical devices. They provide products and services to therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health, and gastroenterology.

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Learn more about AbbVie
Size
50,000 employees
Market Cap
$288.5 billion
Industry
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
Revenue
$45.8 billion
NASDAQ
ABBV
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