AbbVie · 9 hours ago
Director, Delivery Operations – Engineering Delivery Group
North Chicago, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
9+ years expAbbVie is dedicated to discovering and delivering innovative medicines to address serious health issues. The Director of Delivery Operations will lead technology transformation, standardize delivery processes, and manage diverse teams to support AbbVie’s R&D and therapeutic discovery efforts.
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Responsibilities
Works with domain senior leadership and makes contributions to develop strategy
Drives opportunities to improve process and/or technology
Makes key decisions that are guided by established strategies and priorities
Influences operating policies and procedures that affect the domain
Interprets enterprise-wide policies, processes and procedures that may affect teams and domain workflow
Recruits, coaches and develops a team(s) of managers and senior managers who have significant latitude and autonomy in their assignments
Directs and controls the activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, product groups and/or operations
Provides usage optimization and process framework leadership for the methodologies used in application creation and development including UI frameworks, cloud technology usage, and software development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD
Make quick flexible decisions that influence the future course of the business and/or technology domain
Responsible for determining delivery resource management strategy and organizational structure
Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leaders
Interactions focus on project and operational decisions
Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators
Consistently demonstrate Abbvie's Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset and people leadership
Effectively manages performance, provides timely feedback, appropriately rewards and recognizes valuable achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline
Understand and execute AbbVie's vision, goals and strategies
This role has accountability for the performance and results strategically important functions
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree and 10 years experience OR Masters Degree and 9 years experience OR PhD and 5 years experience
Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall AbbVie goals
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members
Experience managing teams of at least 10 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams, contractors and managed service providers
Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels
Subject matter expert in technology and/or business domain
Experience managing a budget of at least $10 million
Preferred
Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred
Benefits
Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
Medical/dental/vision insurance
401(k)
Short-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
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (273)
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2023 (225)
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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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