Associate Business Systems Consultant

Job Description

Job Description

Company Description

At AbbVie, we believe the paths we take to achieve our breakthroughs matter. That how we get there is just as vital as the outcome. So, we get there together, all of us asking bold questions and finding new answers. Being flexible in the ways we grow and learn.  And strengthening our culture built on deep, honest collaboration. For those who honor small wins and push past wrong turns, for anyone who thrives taking on the tough challenges with a diverse team: we’re ready for you. 

In AbbVie Business Technology Solutions, we are shaping the digital transformation accelerating the future of medicine, taking on tough challenges through deep, honest collaboration. For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, contribute to the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we’re ready for you. 

Join our collaborative and global team as an Associate Business Systems Consultant (Assoc. BSC) supporting the IR Discovery team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to enhance your business-tech skills while contributing to AbbVie's mission of positively impacting patients' lives by advancing the future of medicine. Our organization invests in your customized career development, providing you with the tools and resources needed to succeed. 

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible fo r: 

• Providing direct partnership and IT system ownership in support of stakeholders in R&D Discovery and Corporate Business and Strategy Office (CBSO). 

• Provides strategic technology consultation, guidance and leadership (where appropriate) for business/domain initiatives.  

• Develop and lead plans necessary to deliver the technological capabilities needed to enable business objectives.  

• Analyzes business processes; elicits, analyzes, and documents business requirements; identifies, creates proposals, and presents alternative solutions, assesses feasibility and makes recommendations typically seeking to exploit and leverage new or existing IT technology components.; change management; and leads, coordinates/performs testing, verification, and validation of requirements. 

Tools and skills you will use in this role :  

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures. 

• Work with business teams to understand specific business processes, business drivers, and business strategies across multiple functions, identifies, prioritizes and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via technology 

• Use appropriate tools to collect, correlate and analyze data; record and maintain technical system and SDLC documentation and training materials. Conduct testing and develop preliminary findings. Adhere to Abbvie system standards and procedures. 

• Manage projects according to project scope and milestones.  Determine approach and solution to problem when issue is within scope.  Guide the efforts of technical teams  

• Proactively investigate and understand capabilities of existing systems and technologies already in use across the business area and similar and interconnected business areas in AbbVie; Investigates emerging internal and external technologies and actively connects these capabilities to proactively address business needs 

• Anticipate risks project/program risks, defines mitigation plans and works with teams to implement. Working with business partners and BTO management, responsible for resolving changes to scope, issues and risks that will affect multiple and/or large-scale projects/programs. 

• Anticipate and respond to current and emerging business needs and evaluate alternative IT solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices.  

• Proactively seeks strategic business opportunities for the application of new or existing IT capabilities (across multiple business areas) with high-level business unit executives providing key opinion-leading clients with comprehensive strategic analyses and insights to help them discover strategic uses of IT products and services. Experience managing a project/program. 

• Build collaborative relationships and effectively interact with business and/or technology teams. Acts as a liaison and business process expert to assure successful implementation. Serves as a source of information to the business teams. Subject matter expert in their technology and/or functional domain. 

• Consistently demonstrates AbbVie's Ways of Working and Leadership Attributes. Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all 

Qualifications

Required 

• Bachelor’s degree plus 6 years’ technical experience; Master’s degree plus 5 years’ experience; PhD plus 0 years’ experience.   

• IT system ownership and system implementation experience 

• Experience with external inspection teams to facilitate audits, collaborate to provide documentation, and address findings related to business applications. 

Preferred

 

• Experience with AI-enabled tools and automation to support business process improvement, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making.
• Familiarity with knowledge graph concepts and semantic data structures to support the organization, connection, and interpretation of business information across systems.
• Interest in emerging digital capabilities, including AI and connected data approaches, to identify opportunities for innovation and continuous improvement

• Experience in project management tools, such as Jira 

• Experience with emerging AI tools and practices 

• Experience in Data Analytics 

• Experience in Vendor Relationship management 

• Scientific or healthcare related background 

• Experience in Highly Restricted/Secret Data management 

• Familiar with M&A processes 

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 thisposting 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 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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.​

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