Business Strategy and Operations P05

AbbVie•North Chicago, IL

1d•$96,500 - $183,500

About The Position

The Manager, Strategic Initiatives combines strategic initiative management with advanced data analysis, dashboard analytics, and decision-support capabilities. The role translates complex portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into clear insights that help leaders prioritize work, allocate resources, monitor execution, and make timely decisions. The position develops and maintains integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views; strengthens data quality and governance across source systems; and supports cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption. The role works across CDO, R&D, Finance, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Procurement, and Business Technology Solutions to connect strategy, funding, capacity, execution risk, and measurable outcomes. The manager promotes adoption of standardized dashboards, analytics, and processes by developing guidance, training users, gathering feedback, measuring utilization, and refining solutions to meet evolving business needs. The role creates concise, executive-ready narratives and presentations that connect data to business impact and enable leaders to make informed portfolio, funding, workforce, and execution decisions. The position provides end-to-end leadership for cross-functional process improvement and strategic initiatives, including scope definition, integrated plans, resource projections, governance, decision points, risk mitigation, change management, and implementation. It facilitates governance forums and working sessions; documents decisions, actions, owners, milestones, and interdependencies; and escalates significant issues or resource gaps with fact-based options and recommendations. The manager identifies opportunities to automate recurring reporting, streamline manual workflows, improve data accessibility, and strengthen sustainable use of approved tools. The role develops, monitors, and continuously improves key performance indicators, success measures, forecasts, and effectiveness metrics for strategic initiatives and business operations, proactively identifying material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (or ex-US equivalent) in business, data analytics, information systems, engineering, life sciences, finance, operations, or a related field.
Typically 3+ years of relevant experience in pharmaceutical development, business operations, analytics, strategy, project or portfolio management, continuous improvement, consulting, or a related environment.
Demonstrated initiative, learning agility, and comfort working through ambiguity to structure problems and create scalable solutions.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
Strong project management, problem-solving, and continuous-improvement skills, including managing milestones, risks, dependencies, and competing priorities in a matrixed environment.
Experience developing and maintaining dashboards, scorecards, reports, or analytical products using Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable data-visualization and business-intelligence tools.

Responsibilities

Translate portfolio, workforce, financial, resource, and operational data into insights supporting prioritization, resource allocation, execution monitoring, and timely decisions.
Develop and maintain integrated dashboards, reporting tools, scorecards, and analytical views; strengthen data quality and governance across source systems.
Support cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through implementation and adoption, connecting strategy, funding, capacity, execution risk, and measurable outcomes.
Promote adoption of standardized dashboards, analytics, and processes by developing guidance, training users, gathering feedback, measuring utilization, and refining solutions.
Create executive-ready narratives and presentations that connect data to business impact and support portfolio, funding, workforce, and execution decisions.
Lead cross-functional process improvement and strategic initiatives, including scope definition, integrated plans, resource projections, governance, decision points, risk mitigation, change management, and implementation.
Facilitate initiative governance forums and working sessions; document decisions, actions, owners, milestones, and interdependencies; escalate significant issues or resource gaps with fact-based options and recommendations.
Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting, streamline manual workflows, improve data accessibility, and strengthen use of approved platforms.
Develop, monitor, and continuously improve KPIs, success measures, forecasts, and effectiveness metrics; identify material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities.