Associate Director, Digital Strategy Lead Biologics ( On-site Worcester, MA)

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

Job Description

The primary goal of this position is to lead the digital transformation effort for PDS&T Biologics. The selected individual will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing a comprehensive data and digital strategy. This role involves establishing and leading a Center of Excellence (COE) for digital transformation and ML/AI capabilities within PDS&T biologics. The COE, which includes representatives from each functional group, will cater to the needs of scientists and work to develop a data systems architecture foundational for knowledge management, advanced data analytics, and predictive modeling. This leader will shape the vision for AI and digital strategy, influencing and driving end-to-end digital integration within Biologics CMC. This leader will collaborate closely with IT partners to evaluate and optimize data systems that enable seamless capture and connectivity of biologics process and analytical data, and establish business and data governance in partnership with other divisions within PDS&T, Dev Sci, Manufacturing, and the Quality organizations. The leader will prioritize use cases and workflow applications to enhance digital maturity and deliver measurable value to scientists

Responsibilities:

• ​​Establish and lead a Center of Excellence (COE) for digital transformation within PDS&T Biologics. 

• ​Serve as the single point of contact for PDS&T biologics in partnering with IR, BTS, and other enterprise teams to develop key data and digital systems capabilities. 

• ​Develop and execute a digital transformation strategy for capturing, retrieving, and connecting critical data related to PDS&T biologics workflows, promoting reusability and advanced analytics. 

• ​Partner with scientists to develop and implement data analytics and modeling tools that support data visualization and predictive modeling.​ 

• ​Collaborate with AI and digital science teams to revolutionize daily operations through transformative programs. 

• ​Define KPIs/dashboards and communicate progress on initiatives to stakeholders. 

• ​Influence leadership and cross-functional stakeholders for investments aligning digital transformation with PDS&T biologics business priorities. 

• ​Represent scientists' needs and advocate for the work processes and culture needed for digital transformation. 

• ​Benchmark internally and externally to ensure an industry-leading data and digital strategy for biologics process and analytics development. 

• ​Build and develop leadership and technical skills in a diverse group of scientists equipped with advanced data analytics for the future.

Qualifications

• ​​PhD degree in life sciences or science-based informatics with 10+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience. 

• ​Minimum of 8 years of experience in a relevant R&D or Operations function within the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. 

• ​Proven experience in enabling new digital or data management capabilities beyond incremental improvements or routine data system implementations. 

• ​Technical expertise including knowledge in programming languages (e.g., Python, R) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP). 

• ​Familiarity with AI/ML platforms and tools (such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar) that are relevant to biologics CMC workflows. 

• ​Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and ML techniques for biologics CMC development to optimize processes, improve data analysis, and enhance predictive modeling capabilities. 

​Critical success factors: 

• ​Ability to maintain effective working relationships with multidisciplinary experts and leaders in a collaborative, fast-paced, goal-driven environment. 

• ​Results-oriented with a proactive attitude, driving toward key milestones on strategic initiatives promptly. 

• ​Team player with experience working in a matrixed environment, influencing, and aligning stakeholders. 

• ​Demonstrated strategic leadership and change management abilities, with an innovative mindset to drive digital transformation. 

• ​Demonstrated ability to understand scientists' needs and drive strategic change effectively. 

• ​Broad knowledge of CMC workflows and key data and analytics that drive decision-making. 

• ​Competence in integrating AI/ML solutions with existing data systems and workflows to facilitate seamless data capture and analysis. 

• ​Commitment to staying abreast of the latest AI/ML advancements and trends within the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, particularly within biologics. 

• Strong financial acumen for budgeting and managing improvement/new investment efforts, alongside ongoing cost management with BTS. 

• Extensive IT implementation experience, ideally encompassing "enterprise" type systems, for effective liaison with scientific and IT SMEs. 

• Exceptional business acumen and proficiency in business case development, organizational skills, and lean tool deployment. 

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. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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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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