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

The Associate Director, Americas Facility Planning role is a key AbbVie management position responsible for providing corporate guidance on activities related to strategic planning, market demand and trends, strategic opportunities and business needs, technological advances, and legal requirements. The position is also directly responsible for managing and driving the corporation's effective utilization of office, lab, and warehouse assets.

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and centralized management for planning and development related to divisions or programs to achieve key strategic business objectives.

• Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and consistently meets expectations.

• Makes difficult decisions regarding priorities among projects.

• Excellent communication skills, cross-functional stakeholder management skills, customer relationship skills, and executive presence are required.

• Experience in motivating, directing, and managing performance for 5 to 10 direct reports. Fosters an environment of collaboration, innovation, and exchange of ideas.

• Understands business needs and has extensive experience defining customer strategic needs when developing a project scope.

• Integrates technology with business needs when defining project scope. Familiarity with Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) systems and database management is desirable.

• Leads the project team using established PM tools and techniques (scope definition, alternatives appraisal, schedule control, cost control, risk management, etc.) to stay within authorized budget limits and achieve the overall project and organizational objectives.

• The lead project team is comprised of internal and external resources. Performs periodic reviews of portfolio resource allocation to ensure balance within the team.

• Coordinate/team with Corporate Real Estate, IT, and other ABV internal functions as appropriate.

• Monitors aggregate performance and value indicators/metrics. Understand the importance of the same.

• Anticipates and identifies areas of tactical and strategic risk and mitigates risks through early risk assessments and the implementation of fallback/mitigation strategies.

• Collaborates with functional experts to integrate project management best practices into strategies and tactics for developing key projects.

• Develops a strategic view of the division and corporation's project management practices and methodologies. Assists with the integration of standard tools and techniques across divisions.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Architecture. Other disciplines and relevant experience will be considered.

• 12+ years of significant architectural project and program management experience

• A career history marked by a consistent series of significant contributions and accomplishments.

• A post-graduate education/degree is desirable.

• Experience in motivating, directing, and managing performance for 5 to 10 direct reports.

• Industry-accredited qualifications are a plus.

• A broad understanding of Real Estate transactions and commercial leases.

• Experience in the following areas is desired: property strategy, construction administration, procurement, office design, workplace strategy, change management, negotiating/writing contracts, campus master planning, metro planning, laboratory & scientific design, move management & campus restacking strategy.

• Experience in executing post-occupancy and customer satisfaction survey exercises is desirable.

• Experience in compiling metrics, data analytics, and developing insights to inform effective decision-making.

• Consistently demonstrated competency with financial systems, fiscal control, and project accounting experience.

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.