Director, Strategic Planning & Operations, Value & Evidence

Serve as the principal advisor and right hand to the Vice President of Value & Evidence, supporting strategy development, operational excellence, and cross-functional initiatives. 

Lead strategic planning and execution for V&E, aligning business objectives with enterprise goals.  Includes providing direction and oversight across V&E to ensure effective planning, execution and assessment of progress to maximize organizational impact. 

Drive operational effectiveness by building and optimizing processes, reporting, and performance metrics and/or managing operational initiatives to improve organizational effectiveness and efficiency.  

Designs and implements control systems and metrics to ensure efficient, effective, high quality, and timely V&E services and deliverables. 

Serve as chief communicator and facilitator for leadership team meetings, program reviews, and major initiatives.  Includes defining agendas, managing topics/decisions/actions, and contributing as a member of the leadership team.  

Leverage this leadership team to provide guidance and foster strong alignment across V&E pillars, MHI and cross-functional partners across AbbVie. 

Leverage V&E team to highlight best practices and shared learnings across V&E pillars and cross functional partners to continually improve processes, streamline tool development and engage V&E employees. 

Partner with stakeholders across research, medical, development, and commercial to coordinate V&E projects and shared initiatives. 

Empower data driven decisions on resource allocation, process and quality improvement across V&E pillars. Contribute to  the operational support of the V&E budget, headcount and capital asset planning. 

Support change management, culture, and talent development efforts within the function. 

Serve as ambassador of Value & Evidence and maintain strong connectivity with strategic planning & operations leads from other MHI pillars and stakeholder functions. 

Provide strategic direction and oversight across the Value & Evidence teams to ensure effective planning, execution and assessment of progress to maximize organizational impact. 

Recruit, develop and retain diverse talent to the V&E Operations team that delivers actionable insights from the pillars and enables the effective implementation of global initiatives.