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AbbVie Associate Director, Project Engineering (Onsite) in North Chicago, Illinois

Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Americas Facility Planning role, is a key AbbVie management position responsible for providing corporate guidance on activities related to strategic planning, market demand and trends, strategic opportunities and business needs, technological advances and legal requirements. Directly responsible for managing and driving the corporations' effective facility utilization of office, lab, and warehouse assets.

Responsibilities:

Americas Planner key responsibilities:

  • Provides leadership and centralized management for planning & development, related to divisions or programs, to achieve key strategic business objectives.

  • Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and consistently meets expectations.

  • Makes difficult decisions regarding priorities among projects.

  • Excellent communication skills, cross functional stakeholder management skills, customer relationship skills and executive presence are required.

  • Experience of motivating, directing, and managing performance for 5 to 10 direct reports. Fosters an environment of collaboration, innovation, and exchange of ideas.

  • Understands the business needs and has extensive experience on how to define customer strategic needs when developing a project scope.

  • Integrates technology with business needs when defining project scope. Familiarity with Computer Aided Facility Management (CAFM) systems and database management is desirable.

  • Leads the project team in using established PM tools and techniques (scope definition, alternatives appraisal, schedule control, cost control, risk management, etc.) to stay within authorized budget limits and achieve the overall project and organizational objectives.

  • Leads project team comprised of internal and external resources. Performs periodic review of portfolio resource allocation to ensure balance within the team.

  • Coordinate/team with Corporate Real Estate, IT and other ABV internal functions as appropriate.

  • Monitors aggregate performance and value indicators / metrics. Understand importance of same.

  • Anticipates and identifies areas of tactical and strategic risk and mitigates risks through early risk assessments and implementation of fall back /mitigation strategies.

  • Collaborates with functional experts to integrate project management best practices into strategies and tactics associated with the development of key projects.

  • Develops a strategic view of project management practices and methodologies for the division and / or corporation. Assists with integration of common tools and techniques across divisions.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Project Management, or Construction Administration or closely related discipline, plus demonstrated competence.

  • 12+ years of significant project or program management experience.

  • A career history marked by a consistent series of significant contributions and accomplishments.

  • A post-graduate education/degree is desirable.

  • Experience in motivating, directing, and managing performance for 5 to 10 direct reports.

  • Industry accredited qualifications is a plus.

  • A broad understanding of Real Estate transactions and commercial leases.

  • Experience in the following areas is desired: property strategy, construction administration, procurement, office design, workplace strategy, change management, negotiating/writing contracts, campus master planning, metro planning, laboratory & scientific design, move management & campus restacking strategy.

  • Experience of executing post occupancy and customer satisfaction survey exercises desirable.

  • Experience of compiling metrics, data analytics and developing insights to inform effective decision making.

  • Consistently demonstrated competency with financial systems and fiscal control, as well as project accounting experience.

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 short-term incentive programs. ​

  • 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.

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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