AbbVie · 4 days ago
TA Director, Clinical Data Strategy and Operations
North Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $296K/yr
10+ years expAbbVie is a company dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines to address serious health issues. The TA Director, Clinical Data Strategy and Operations is responsible for leading a global workforce to support clinical trial operations, ensuring high-quality clinical data management, and fostering collaboration across teams.
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Responsibilities
Accountable for the execution via the CDSO operating model and for preservation of its integrity. Accomplishes this through maintaining standardization, leveraging designed economies of scale and scope, and harmonizing with a focus on clinical development efficiency and effectiveness ahead of function-specific optimization
Develops and empowers a leadership team that brings operations and domain expertise, unique perspectives, ability to inspire and influence, eagerness to co-create, and an engrained sense of ownership and accountability for successful execution
Ensures the standard for talent used to drive CDSO talent acquisition and development, and to differentiate the operations workforce is adhered to and perpetuated. The outcome is a team of operations and domain experts, future leaders, and industry influencers – all with execution as their primary focus
Develops a culture that inspires personnel to question norms, to be intrapreneurial, to debate, and to take pride in execution and in facilitating others to execute. In conjunction, promotes and delivers balance between work and life to the workforce
Speed and quality are paramount. Uses the CDSO operating model in a manner that achieves flexibility and agility in maintaining both speed and quality in a sometimes-volatile environment
Provides oversight and fluid management of global operations resource allocation that spans employees, contractors, and functional service provider resources who support the assigned therapeutic area(s). Navigates drivers such as prioritization, long-term forecasts, immediate and sometimes episodic influences, normal demand fluctuation, and individual talent variation to achieve optimal outcomes
Participates in and contributes to industry consortiums as a critical AbbVie representative
Executes strategic road maps along with CDSO peers and peers from R&D functions. Supports validation of proposed strategy through alignment with leadership
Accountable for representing AbbVie with regulatory authorities to support inspections and queries
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required
10+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or as an operations leader in an applicable industry, and 5+ years of matrix team management
Broad business orientation, including advanced operations philosophy and methodology
Crisp and clear communication in both written and oral forms
Ability to approach situations with a neutral mindset, to gather evidence, to understand opposing points of view, and to form opinions that lead to results
Ability to model and manage performance behaviors, and teach those behaviors by example
Creative and analytical thinker; ability to both generate novel ideas and to comfortably use data to make decisions
Demonstrated ability to effectively network, to influence at multiple levels and across multiple functions, to build strong relationships through demonstrated diplomacy and domain expertise when working cross-functionally
Ability to work across functional and geographical boundaries to deliver results
Ability to inspire our global workforce toward a singular purpose – delivery of clinical data of the highest quality
Preferred
Advanced degrees (e.g. MBA, PhD) preferred
Benefits
Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
Medical/dental/vision insurance
401(k)
Short-term incentive programs
Long-term incentive programs
Company
AbbVie
AbbVie is a biopharmaceutical company focused on immunology, oncology, neuroscience, virology, and aesthetics. It is a sub-organization of AbbVie.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$15B2024-02-27Post Ipo Debt· $15B
2023-03-08Post Ipo Equity· $0.25M
2012-12-20IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Michael
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Micah Bregman
Vice President, Global Strategy and Pipeline, Allergan Aesthetics
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