Director, Data and AI Architecture

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

23h•$182,000 - $346,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide leadership to develop technology strategies that support business goals. This role will have impact and influence over more than one technology and/or business domain. Objectives: Build a collaborative partnership with technology and functional domain senior leadership. Develop and guide delivery of comprehensive technology solutions that address prioritized business problems and innovation needs. Objectives are defined in collaboration with senior domain leadership and results assess from a 2-3 year perspective.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and 12+ years of experience.
Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overall AbbVie goals.
Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating, energizing and inspiring team members.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience managing teams of at least 15 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 all levels of the organization, including C-Suite.
Thought leader within multiple technology and/or business domains.
Experience managing a budget of at least $15 million.

Nice To Haves

Masters degree and work experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.
Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Influence: Works across multiple business and technology to make significant contributions to development of a 2-3 year strategy. Develops, adapts and executes strategies to achieve key objectives.
Process Improvement & Optimization: Makes significant contributions to identifying overall process and/or technology improvements.
People Management: Responsible for managing a team(s) of senior managers and directors within multiple business and/or technology domains.
Impact: Make decisions that have an effect on financial, employee and/or public relations posture of Abbvie.
Resource Management: Responsible for making significant contributions to the development resource management strategy and organizational structure of multiple business and/or technology domain.
Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interacts frequently with business and/or technology senior leadership and vice presidents. Interactions focus on top priority project and influencing strategic decisions. Interacts well with diverse groups across business and technology functions and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.
Culture: 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.