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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Job Description Purpose Individual contributor with responsibility for pro-actively evaluating, negotiating with, measuring and managing vendors providing services and deliverables to all AbbVie R&D, with sole responsibility for up to enterprise scale (multiple countries, value generally exceeds $10 MM annually, multiple TA/FAs utilizing) vendor relationships and transactions with high complexity. Leads negotiations and drives transactions to completion on time and on budget. Active manager and primary owner of supplier categories and supplier relationships, including sourcing responsibility. Responsible for maintaining compliance with Corporate Purchasing, Finance, Quality Assurance and Office of Ethics and Compliance policies Responsibilities + Primary focus on negotiation and execution of related R&D Master Agreements within category responsibilities. Maintains and manages existing MSA’s, including amending agreements in relation to new business needs or changes in circumstances. + Responsibile for negotiation and execution of one-off agreements (and statements of work) in assigned categories as requested by management. For Vendor Managers that support clinical trial related services, partners with Outsourcing Project Managers in a support and consulting capacity in relation to PM managed one-off agreements. Independently drives managed transactions to successful completion, and accountable for successful managing vendors through relationship lifecycle. + Responsible for providing initial document drafting and originating redlines to Legal following return of documents from counterparties, and driving decision making on issues that have crossover between Legal and business expertise. + Reviews and analyzes KPI's/metrics, holding vendors accountable to established performance criteria for vendor activities. Drives the investigation of vendor performance issues and develops solutions to ensure overall performance, compliance and Quality. Communicates findings and recommendations to larger organization. Participates in Vendor Governance, managing relationships to unlock additional enterprise value. + Assists in establishing and is responsible for maintaining consistent practices and policies related to vendor activities to insure compliance with Corporate Purchasing, Finance, QA, Clinical and OEC policies. + Across supported R&D service categories, responsible for pro-actively collaborating with TAs/FAs and related TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers. Leverages these efforts to strategically build a preferred supplier network in such categories. + Provide effective communication and recommendations to both internal and external partners. Address business issues for key services providers in conjunction with TLC POCs and Outsourcing Project Managers, QA, Dev Ops and other related depts. Escalates issues as defined by KPIs/metrics. + Implements the comprehensive plan for R&D SG&A savings goals across all contracting functions. + Liaise with Corporate Purchasing, TAs/FAs and fellow R&D delegated purchasing functions to ensure R&D needs are met. Qualifications + Bachelor’s degree required. Advanced degree is strongly preferred (Scientific, JD, MBA). + 8-10 years combined experience in pharmaceutical research, legal, strategy or financial analysis required. Prefer Pharmaceutical, Licensing, CRO or Legal experience. + Strong knowledge of drug development, project management, quality assurance, manufacturing, clinical and non-clinical research, legal and regulatory functions. + Strong understanding of outsourcing processes, corporate purchasing standards, legal, OEC, QA and finance policies and procedures. Knowledge of AbbVie organization, pipeline, processes, and culture beneficial + Experience in leveraging resources in a global environment without direct reporting responsibility/authority. Demonstrated leadership skills with a very broad business orientation. Responsible to teams but with no direct reporting responsibility/authority for those functional areas + Proven project management skills. Demonstrated success in managing broad scope projects involving cross-functional teamwork. + Demonstrated ability to think and plan strategically. Position requires strong analytical skills to understand scientific and financial data, recognize key issues and establish priorities. + Must have demonstrated strong negotiation skills through past experience. Excellent communication skills both (written and verbal). Experience in preparing/presenting key information to senior level management. + Ability to build and maintain effective internal and external partnerships. Relationship management and influencing skills required. High degree of customer focus. + Requires problem solving abilities at both strategic and operational levels. To identify and resolve issues related to a contract, or management of the supplier to the contract or management of performance issues. This involves both internal cross-functional problem solving as well as issue resolution between functional areas and external suppliers. 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​ ​ 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 committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because 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, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.