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Job Title: Director, Delivery Operations Engineering Delivery Group
Company Name: AbbVie
Location: North Chicago, IL
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 01/30/2026
Expire Date: 03/01/2026
Job Categories: Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Finance/Economics, Government and Policy, Information Technology, Sales, Science, Executive Management, Quality Control
Job Description
Director, Delivery Operations Engineering Delivery Group

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

As the Director of Delivery Operations for the Engineering Delivery Group, you will be a key leader in driving technology transformation within a highly collaborative and inclusive team. You willbe responsible forstandardizing delivery processes across multipledelivery platforms,leveragingagile methodologies and modern delivery tools to ensure efficiency, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Your role will focus on setting and tracking performance metrics to measuredeliverysuccess, quality, and team productivity. You will manage diverse talent, including in-house technical teams, leading contract workers, and partnering with top-tier software development companies to deliver innovative solutions supportingAbbViesR&D and the discovery of life-changing therapeutics.

By fostering a culture of open communication and accountability, you will create and implement a unified vision for technology delivery at AbbVie, ensuring best practices in project management, resource allocation, and agile execution. Your leadership will empower teams to deliver complex technology solutions that advance AbbVie's mission of improving patient outcomes worldwide.

This leader will provide vision and direction forsoftwaredelivery function that provides technology primarily used to discover and develop new therapeutics (AbbVies R&D division). This function provides the main application development capability and managed application support for these technologies. This function also manages development methodologies used for application development and management.

  • Strategy & Influence: Works with domain senior leadership and makes contributions to develop strategy. Adapts and executes domain strategic plans.Utilizestechnical/professional knowledge and skills toestablish,interpretand execute company policies in a major segment of the company.

  • Process Improvement & Optimization: Drives opportunities to improve process and/or technology.

  • Decisions & Policies: Makes key decisions that are guided byestablishedstrategies and priorities. Influences operating policies and procedures that affect the domain. Interprets enterprise-wide policies, processes and procedures that may affect teams and domain workflow.

  • People Management:Recruits, coaches and developsateam(s)of managers and senior managers who have significant latitude and autonomy in their assignments.Recruits, coaches and develops organizational talent

  • Financial ManagementDirects and controls the activities and budget of one or more functional areas, divisions, productgroupsand/or operations.

  • Process Management:Provides usage optimization and process framework leadership for the methodologies used in application creation and development including UI frameworks, cloud technology usage, and software development methodologies such as Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD.

  • Impact: Makequickflexibledecisionsthat influencethe future course of the business and/or technology domain.

  • Resource Management: Responsible fordeterminingdeliveryresourcemanagement strategy and organizational structure.

  • Liaison & Relationship Building: Builds collaborative relationships and effectively interactsfrequentlywith business and/or technology senior leaders. Interactions focus on project and operational decisions. Interacts well with diverse groups within function andmaintainsstrong working relationships with internal and external collaborators.

  • Culture: Consistently demonstrateAbbvie'sWays of Working and Leadership Attributes including an enterprise mindset andpeopleleadership. Effectively manages performance, providestimelyfeedback, appropriately rewards and recognizes valuable achievement, develops talent, and creates a succession pipeline. Understand and execute AbbVie's vision,goalsand strategies. This role has accountability for the performance andresultsstrategicallyimportant functions.


Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree and 10 years experience OR Masters Degree and 9years experience OR PhD and 5 years experience

  • Effectively connects employee and BTS functional goals to business and/or overallAbbViegoals.
    Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    Proven ability to drive outstanding employee performance and engagement through developing, coaching, motivating,energizingand inspiring team members.

  • Experience managing teams of at least 10 people with a resource mix of managers, employees, matrixed teams, virtual teams,contractorsand managed service providers.

  • Ability to communicate problems in terms that are understandable to BTS Leadership and end users at all levels.

  • Subject matter expert in technology and/or business domain.

  • Experience managing a budget of at least $10 million.

  • Experience in technology operation, strategy, planning and implementation and/or relevant business domain preferred.


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 thetimeof 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.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of anybonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's soleandabsolutediscretion 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.

US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visithttps://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html

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Company Name: AbbVie
Website:https://careers.abbvie.com/en/job/director-delivery-operations-engineering-delivery-group-in-north-chicago-il-jid-24051?_atxsrc=HBCUConnect&utm_source=HBCUConnect
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