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

This position is responsible for spearheading category and supplier profiling and managing risk against industry benchmarked criteria. The role involves the creation and maintenance of procurement category heat maps and supplier segmentation strategies, delivering performance & governance standards. The Associate Director is responsible for supporting stakeholder execution of governance strategies in addition to leading a team, ensuring their professional development aligns with organizational goals.

• Lead the development and implementation of advanced category profiling strategies, including the creation of supply chain risk heatmaps.
• Innovate in the segmentation of suppliers and the comprehensive risk assessment of procurement categories.
• Identify emerging trends and vulnerabilities within categories, ensuring the organization is ahead in risk identification and mitigation strategies.
• Implement risk management strategies and profiling techniques across procurement category, supplier stratification, and supplier performance strategies, ensuring alignment with the organization’s overall procurement strategy.
• Ensure that risk assessment findings and mitigation strategies are effectively integrated into category and supplier management operations.
• Work collaboratively with procurement teams to embed risk management practices in all procurement activities.
• Regularly review and refine risk management processes and strategies based on changing market dynamics and internal performance metrics.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives in category management and risk assessment, drawing insights from performance data and industry best practices.
• Manage and coach risk managers, focusing on their development in strategic risk management, category profiling.
• Set clear objectives and performance metrics for direct reports, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Encourage a collaborative team environment that values innovation, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to risk management.

Qualifications:

• Comprehensive procurement and category domain expertise to support market analysis, risk and financial assessments, ensuring strategic and informed procurement decisions.
• Strong capabilities in internal stakeholder management and influence, enabling oversight of complex projects.
• Detailed understanding of procurement policies and processes across categories and suppliers.
• Innovative problem-solving skills combined with a solution-oriented mindset, enabling creative approaches that challenge the status quo with clear communication at all organizational levels.
• Excellent analytical capabilities to inform strategic thinking and implementation of risk identification and mitigation measures.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration abilities, effectively navigating diverse team dynamics.
• Exceptional soft skills and emotional intelligence, facilitating empathetic interactions and effective dialogue.
• Impactful executive functioning abilities and autonomous work ethic, maintaining efficient performance in challenging situations and building consensus in decision-making.

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Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; focus in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field desired. Master’s degree is preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in procurement, quality assurance, supplier management, audit, supply chain, or related business or operations function.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing senior internal business and functional leaders.
• Proven expertise in category management and comprehensive understanding of category-specific risks.
• Experience developing and implementing category risk profiles and mitigation strategies.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.

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

• Lead the development and implementation of advanced category profiling strategies, including the creation of supply chain risk heatmaps.
• Innovate in the segmentation of suppliers and the comprehensive risk assessment of procurement categories.
• Identify emerging trends and vulnerabilities within categories, ensuring the organization is ahead in risk identification and mitigation strategies.
• Implement risk management strategies and profiling techniques across procurement category, supplier stratification, and supplier performance strategies, ensuring alignment with the organization’s overall procurement strategy.
• Ensure that risk assessment findings and mitigation strategies are effectively integrated into category and supplier management operations.
• Work collaboratively with procurement teams to embed risk management practices in all procurement activities.
• Regularly review and refine risk management processes and strategies based on changing market dynamics and internal performance metrics.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives in category management and risk assessment, drawing insights from performance data and industry best practices.
• Manage and coach risk managers, focusing on their development in strategic risk management, category profiling.
• Set clear objectives and performance metrics for direct reports, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.
• Encourage a collaborative team environment that values innovation, strategic thinking, and a proactive approach to risk management