Associate Director, Strategic Resourcing

Company Description

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Strategic Resourcing acts as a trusted advisor to MHI leadership, driving portfolio prioritization and resource strategy to maximize impact. The role structures trade-offs, develops scenario-based recommendations, and shapes operating practices to align capacity, capabilities, and timing with strategic priorities and financial guardrails—partnering closely with Finance while focusing on business decisions and outcomes. The position co-owns resourcing-related elements of the functional planning calendar (e.g., prioritization forums, demand/capacity cycles) without owning financial reconciliation or close.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with internal stakeholders across the Medical Affairs & Health Impact Organization to address critical business challenges and develop strategic prioritization and resourcing solutions to ensure both short- and long-term success.
• Lead cross-functional prioritization and capacity trade-offs across the MHI portfolio, using structured decision frameworks and clearly defined guardrails aligned to strategy and affordability.
• Manage core financial processes—including annual and long-term resource and financial planning, demand forecasting, reconciliation, and capacity analysis—to ensure alignment with corporate and functional objectives.
• Support business development activities by collaborating on deal modeling and integration, including analysis of resource needs and transition planning for newly acquired assets.
• Build and maintain scenario-based models of demand vs. supply (capacity, skills mix, timing) to inform build/buy/partner strategies, outsourcing approaches, and sequencing.
• Create clear dashboards, visualizations, and summaries that elevate insights, risks, and options for senior stakeholders.
• Benchmark resourcing practices within R&D/Medical Affairs and relevant industries; incorporate best practices into MHI processes, tooling, and methodologies. Identify and implement improvements that reduce decision cycle time and increase capacity alignment to strategic priorities.
• Drive cross-functional alignment by facilitating workshops and working sessions that resolve priorities, interdependencies, and resource conflicts.
• Identify resourcing risks (capacity constraints, skill gaps, timing conflicts) and propose mitigation strategies. Ensure decisions remain within approved financial authorizations and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Management, Operations, or related discipline preferred); advanced degree and/or certifications (such as PMP) are advantageous.
• Minimum 7+ years relevant experience, including 5+ years in business operations, consultancy, strategic planning, or similar functions; pharmaceutical, health care, or industry experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with internal stakeholders, lead cross-functional projects, and address business challenges through structured approaches.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; able to work with and interpret headcount, operational, and financial data to generate actionable insights.
• Effective communicator—comfortable presenting analysis, recommendations, and influencing decisions with stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience designing and implementing change management strategies or supporting organizational transformation initiatives.
• Ability to clarify goals, define success metrics, and drive alignment across teams.
• Track record of extracting business insights from data using light analytics tools or methodologies (Excel, Power BI, Tableau, etc.).
• Persuasive negotiation and business acumen, with a solutions-oriented mindset.
• Prior experience supporting business development, resource modeling, internal/external consulting or integration activities is a plus.

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. ​

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. 

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