Associate Business Systems Consultant

Job Title

Work directly with business unit clients to understand specific business processes and business drivers and business strategy across multiple business units. Identify and communicate resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via technology. Investigate and understand capabilities of existing systems and technologies already in use across the business area and similar and interconnected business areas in AbbVie. Investigate available technologies applied to this business area in industry. Identify information required to support the business strategy and lead the development of appropriate information management strategies, developing them as an integrated part of the business strategy.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
• Identify current and emerging business needs and evaluate alternative technology solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices.
• Proactively seek out strategic business opportunities for the application of new or existing technology capabilities (across multiple business areas) with high-level business unit executives providing key opinion-leading clients with comprehensive strategic analyses and insights to help them discover strategic uses of technology products and services.
• Develop, lead, and review the creation of information systems strategy to support the strategic requirements of multiple business areas.
• Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies. Ensure compliance between business strategies and technology directions.
• Prepare testing plans to confirm that requirements and system design are accurate and complete.
• Responsible for making recommendations to process stakeholders regarding the correct approach to achieve process improvement objectives which may include business process outsourcing, application development or adopting business process management (BPM) practices.
• Develop business relationships and integrate activities with other BTOs to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts. Manage relationships between clients involved and BTOs to assure effective communication between the groups is occurring.
• Broker services within BTS on behalf of customers, coordinate portfolio of solutions, and identify interdependencies.
• Ally with other BTOs to remain current on project status, and inform customer management of progress.
• Keep BTS managers aware of user issues and resolve conflicts.
• Identify the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations on the organization's use of information.
• Establish organizational objectives and delegates assignments.
• Responsible for the accuracy of the fit of the proposed business process improvements and the technical solution to the business needs and the information upon which the business justification and prioritization decisions are made.
• Act as the primary liaison between Data & Statistical science and the technology teams planning, and delivering strategic solutions to complex data capture and analysis problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 5 years' experience; Master's Degree with 4 years' experience; PhD with 0 years' experience.
• Must possess at least 5 years of experience within the Clinical Data Management function in a life science organization.

Additional Information

• 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.

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.