Senior Manager, PMO and Project Management

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

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 at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

This role requires individual to work onsite 5 days per week; currently remote options are not available 

The Sr. Manager, PMO and Project Management, is accountable for overall governance and execution of the project management office. The Sr. Manager must possess a strong understanding of project management best practice along with strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills. This role will manage a team of project managers to drive improvements and consistency in the project management process for the site including standardization, governance and metric tracking. This role must interact and influence at all levels of the organization while working with stakeholders, driving change, support transformation, mitigate risks and resource constraints. Projects range across but not limit to manufacturing, quality, systems, and business processes. Build and manage capacity tool to help manage and forecast resource allocation and negotiate new projects intake.

Supervision

The Sr. Manager, Project Management and PMO will be responsible for the PMO staff at the Branchburg site.

Position breakdown

PMO tool kit — templates, processes and improvements together with the project management team and our stakeholders.

Lead cross-functional teams from project initiation to project closing including managing stakeholders relationship and expectations, milestone tracking, resolving problems and complete activities/tasks to get the desire outcome.

Capacity management — include building the tool, establish the monthly process and capacity forecast to help resource allocation and negotiate intake of future projects. 

Manage and motivate the project management team.

Coach, mentor and train the project management team and anyone else on project management best practice, processes and templates.

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Education and Experience requirements

·Bachelor's degree required; preferred disciplines: Sciences, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain or Business Management.

·6-10 years business experience, preferably in a regulated environment. Direct people management experience.

·Accredited LSS Green Belt or Kaizen Leader Certification required; PMP preferred.

·Financial acumen and ability to assess project return on investment.

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies (includes Licenses, Credentials)

·Strong written and oral communication skills.

·Strong problem solving, analytical and conflict resolution skills.

·Influence leadership, project management team and peers while working alongside and achieving the common goals and objectives.

·Well-organized, focused on results, capable of managing multiple projects and dealing with change priorities.

·Knowledge of Microsoft Suite, including MS Project.

·Enthusiastic manager with strong drive to build professional project management team while creating positive, open, transparent and fun work environment

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. ​

• 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 and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable 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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