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TA Director, Clinical Data Strategy and Operations

BioSpace
North Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 11/2/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/1/2025
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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

Clinical Data Strategy and Operations (CDSO) is an industry-leading data management team that leverages top talent, lean processes, and state of the art technology to deliver high-quality, fit-for-purpose clinical data. The Director, Clinical Data Management Operations, is a leader of a global workforce that is accountable for supporting an assigned therapeutic area(s) within AbbVies clinical trial portfolio. The Director is accountable for supporting, promoting, and executing through the designed operating model. This accountability includes execution of talent acquisition and performance management, process development and evolution, quality control, continuous improvement, and change management. The Director works with their CDSO peers who lead the technology team to ensure seamless integration of operations and technology, always striving together for flawless execution. The Director is a highly empowered leader, a decision-maker and influencer, and accountable to execute clinical developments grand strategy. Above all, the Director develops relationships and collaborates with clinical development peers in a way that promotes a holistic and harmonized clinical trial delivery model.

Responsibilities

  • Accountable for the execution via the CDSO operating model and for preservation of its integrity. Accomplishes this through maintaining standardization, leveraging designed economies of scale and scope, and harmonizing with a focus on clinical development efficiency and effectiveness ahead of function-specific optimization.
  • Develops and empowers a leadership team that brings operations and domain expertise, unique perspectives, ability to inspire and influence, eagerness to co-create, and an engrained sense of ownership and accountability for successful execution.
  • Ensures the standard for talent used to drive CDSO talent acquisition and development, and to differentiate the operations workforce is adhered to and perpetuated. The outcome is a team of operations and domain experts, future leaders, and industry influencers all with execution as their primary focus.
  • Develops a culture that inspires personnel to question norms, to be intrapreneurial, to debate, and to take pride in execution and in facilitating others to execute. In conjunction, promotes and delivers balance between work and life to the workforce.
  • Speed and quality are paramount. Uses the CDSO operating model in a manner that achieves flexibility and agility in maintaining both speed and quality in a sometimes-volatile environment.
  • Provides oversight and fluid management of global operations resource allocation that spans employees, contractors, and functional service provider resources who support the assigned therapeutic area(s). Navigates drivers such as prioritization, long-term forecasts, immediate and sometimes episodic influences, normal demand fluctuation, and individual talent variation to achieve optimal outcomes.
  • Participates in and contributes to industry consortiums as a critical AbbVie representative.
  • Executes strategic road maps along with CDSO peers and peers from R&D functions. Supports validation of proposed strategy through alignment with leadership.
  • Accountable for representing AbbVie with regulatory authorities to support inspections and queries.


Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree required. Advanced degrees (e.g. MBA, PhD) preferred
  • 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or as an operations leader in an applicable industry, and 5 years of matrix team management
  • Broad business orientation, including advanced operations philosophy and methodology
  • Crisp and clear communication in both written and oral forms
  • Ability to approach situations with a neutral mindset, to gather evidence, to understand opposing points of view, and to form opinions that lead to results.
  • Ability to model and manage performance behaviors, and teach those behaviors by example
  • Creative and analytical thinker; ability to both generate novel ideas and to comfortably use data to make decisions.
  • Demonstrated ability to effectively network, to influence at multiple levels and across multiple functions, to build strong relationships through demonstrated diplomacy and domain expertise when working cross-functionally
  • Ability to work across functional and geographical boundaries to deliver results
  • Ability to inspire our global workforce toward a singular purpose delivery of clinical data of the highest quality


Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state orlocal law:

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentiveprograms


Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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