Job Description

About AbbVie
AbbVies mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on peoples lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, womens health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Purpose:

As a discipline expert and contact, drives functional performance by designing and implementing business technology solutions aimed at enabling and accelerating delivery of new or improved products. Technical leader acting at a group, department, and cross- functional levels. Responsible for managing the Data, Solution, Business, and/or Technology architectures and tying them to the Enterprise Architecture and other architectures. Specific responsibility will be in support of the global voice and network services area.

Responsibilities:

* Develops and achieves discipline strategy in alignment with functional goals and key business objectives. Collaborates with experts within function to integrate technical objectives into activities associated with accelerated development of new/improved products or technology.
* Advances technical expertise within function. Proactively demonstrates leadership by advising and sharing knowledge and expert opinions with subordinates, peers, and senior management. Mentors and trains functional colleagues and assesses current and emerging business challenges enabling functional goal achievement.
* Ensures quality and effectiveness of major project plans within function through sound design, early risk assessments, and implementation of fallback strategies.
* Sources and identifies emerging scientific and technological trends from multiple internal and external sources and assess relevance. Integrates trends into functional short-term objectives. Advances crossdiscipline technology and direction through generation of data.
* Applies imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
* Shapes relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, vendors, and industry peers in accordance with AbbVie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision and goals of the organization.
* Responsible for adherence to corporate standards regarding applicable corporate and divisional policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, and data security.

Qualifications
Qualifications:

* Technical background in healthcare, laboratory and manufacturing diagnostics, medical devices, or pharmaceutical companies.
* Provide ability to innovate with a history of new or improved technology solutions with remarkable impact on company productivity.
* Interacts well with diverse groups within function and maintains strong working relationship with internal and external collaborators.
* Demonstrated ability to influence others in areas of science and technology.
* Bachelor's Degree with 9 years experience, Master's Degree with 8 years experience, PHD with 4 years experience in the network/voice engineering/architect roles.

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
Yes, 10 % of the Time
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
M
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis 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, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.