Director, Product Safety Team Program Management

North Chicago, IL

• Function: Research & Development
• Job Type: Full-time

Job ID: R00130835
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.
Job Description
This position is accountable to the Office of the Product Safety Team (PST), within Strategic Operations under the Clinical Science organization. The Clinical Science and Patient Safety (PS) organizations work collaboratively and strategically with colleagues across the product lifecycle to identify, evaluate, understand, and communicate the safety profile of our drugs to protect patients globally.
The Director, Product Safety Team Program Management, plays a critical role in defining and driving the strategic priorities of Patient Safety through exceptional strategic project management leadership across the PST. The PST is a high-profile, high-impact team that leads and owns safety decisions and strategy across the product lifecycle. The PST partners with cross-functional stakeholders to devise innovative, safety-focused strategies aimed at optimizing the product benefit-risk profile for patients.
This role reports directly to the leader of the Product Safety Team Program Management organization and supports the leader with managing personnel, overseeing project management function within the PST, and executing strategic initiatives within the Office of the PST (OOPST).

REQUIRED EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in a healthcare discipline (i.e.: Life Science, Pharmacy, nursing [associates or equivalent] or healthcare profession, or biomedical disciplines)

PREFERRED EDUCATION:

• Masters or advanced degree is desirable
  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.
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Qualifications

• At least 7 years’ experience working in the healthcare industry and a strong understanding of the drug development process. Experience within Pharmacovigilance is desirable but not required
• 9+ years hands-on project management experience in leading cross-functional projects within a global matrixed organization. Hands-on experience applying project management tools and templates
• Required experience in at least two R&D areas such as clinical study management, regulatory, drug safety, discovery, etc.
• Preferred leadership and people management experience. Experience in directly leading and driving major change initiatives within a team. Strong leadership presence and demonstrated ability in courageously challenging the status quo and influencing others. Experience in working directly with and influencing senior management including functional heads
• High emotional Intelligence and strong relationship management and communication skills
• Understanding of the connections between regulations and science for the benefit of drug safety
• Understanding of tools, standards and approaches used to efficiently evaluate drug safety, is desirable but not require

• Provides oversight, leadership, and strategic direction to the Product Safety Team Program Management function within the Product Safety Team (PST), and OOPST strategic initiatives.
• Supports the development and implementation of the vision, strategy and objectives of the project management functions within the Product Safety Team (PST), and OOPST strategic initiatives.
• Support responsibilities for hiring, coaching, training, onboarding, and managing the performance of PST Program Managers. Responsible for building and nurturing a culture of strong project management excellence across assigned PM teams.
• Builds strong strategic partnerships with all Patient Safety stakeholders including Therapeutic Area Heads, PST Leads and other stakeholders (within and outside PS). Seeks their input to shape priorities for the program managers and leverages relationships to advance the goals of the team. Ensures successful partnership between the assigned program management functions, PST Operational Excellence teams and the PSTs.
• Ensures that the assigned PMs are appropriately resourced. Collaborates with the Product Safety Team Program Management leader to plan and forecast the use of PST PMs across product safety teams. Seeks creative ways to utilize limited resources and works with Sr. Director Office of the PST to address critical resource needs
• Responsible for achieving quality and timely metrics for PST and assigned teams. Collaborates with the Product Safety Team Program Management leader to understand root causes of quality and timeliness issues. Accountable for ensuring that root causes are addressed within the appropriate PM team.
• Partners with the Product Safety Team Program Management leader to prepare for inspections and audits. Represents the PST PM team on audit and inspection teams, when required.
• Promotes program management best practice and knowledge sharing across Product Safety Team Program Management functions and with other AbbVie program management teams.
• Drives assigned critical OOPST leadership initiatives and projects that are critical to the success of the PSTs.
• Manages Product Safety Teams as assigned. Represents the PST Lead and PST decisions in committees/meetings.
• Supports and coaches PMs in addressing challenges that arise on the PSTs or other project teams, including navigating difficult decisions.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years’ experience working in the healthcare industry and a strong understanding of the drug development process. Experience within Pharmacovigilance is desirable but not required
• 9+ years hands-on project management experience in leading cross-functional projects within a global matrixed organization. Hands-on experience applying project management tools and templates
• Required experience in at least two R&D areas such as clinical study management, regulatory, drug safety, discovery, etc.
• Preferred leadership and people management experience. Experience in directly leading and driving major change initiatives within a team. Strong leadership presence and demonstrated ability in courageously challenging the status quo and influencing others. Experience in working directly with and influencing senior management including functional heads
• High emotional Intelligence and strong relationship management and communication skills
• Understanding of the connections between regulations and science for the benefit of drug safety
• Understanding of tools, standards and approaches used to efficiently evaluate drug safety, is desirable but not required