Associate Director, Platform Enablement

Position Summary:

AbbVie Patient Services is an industry leading organization, providing unparalleled patient support, resulting in improved brand loyalty and patient satisfaction.  The Associate Director, Platform Enablement is responsible for the oversight of both AbbVie’s Patient Services ecosystem and platforms hosted by our strategic partners.  Development of business expertise associated with Patient Services Program Strategies and Operations is critical to ensuring the platforms align to the strategic intent and operate efficiently.   

To be successful, this person will have to partner cross functionally to understand the business capabilities supported currently and future state roadmap needed to advance the various platforms and applications that support AbbVie’s care models.  In addition to being highly collaborative, they must have strong written and oral communication skills, and obtain alignment from multiple key stakeholders across a highly matrixed organization.  They should be comfortable with developing relationships across a diverse spectrum of customers, while having the ability to prioritize initiatives based on key value propositions.  This role will be required to clearly evaluate, articulate and partner to drive alignment across technology ecosystem interdependencies, and execute with cross functional teams including Business Technology Solutions, Compliance, Legal, Marketing, Patient Engagement, Access and Reimbursement, Enterprise Strategy, and vendor partners. 

Major Responsibilities:

• Ensuring AbbVie’s internal platform team and external partners are aligned on the business strategy and can translate that into tactical plans, while constantly looking for optimization opportunities that drive efficiency and potential cost savings.
• Evolve business solutions and platforms to optimize enterprise capabilities and enhance overall patient experience.
• Building out appropriate system monitoring and KPI’s required to compare to SLA’s and ensure contractual obligations are met is critical.
• Creating relationships with our strategic partners is critical towards building open lines of communication, sharing expectations related to quality, integration efforts, support needs, and the delivery of QBRs.
• Accountable for vendor partner timelines, risk identification, systems budget planning, scope, and delivery.
• Partner with and understand key business stakeholder’s drivers and strategic objectives to provide solutions to challenging business scenarios, while establishing appropriate communication strategy for keeping our business partners aligned on status, progress, challenges, and timing of projects.
• Appropriately prioritize team workloads and conduct impact assessments on all integration efforts to ensure they deliver the intended value and align with the business strategy.
• Prioritize the work for our BTS counterparts, to ensure their priorities align with the APS business priorities, while also ensuring that we have necessary business test cases aligned to allow the business to confirm the solution is working as intended and drives a seamless experience for patients and end users.
• Accountable for team delivery, execution of plans, and identifies opportunities to motivate team members to maximize Patient Services effectiveness.
• High functioning agile methodology mindset with imperatives to build solutions with a focus on user engagement from initial requirements through development, testing, launch, and transition to an operational state.
• Experienced understanding of user acceptance testing best practices and architecting processes that maximize user engagements and deliver quality, predictable releases.
• Proactively identify risks and architect risk mitigation strategies that remove hurdles and promote progression of programs. 
• Must effectively establish and maintain credibility and influence key stakeholders through subject matter expertise, relatability, adaptable, and agile mindsets.
• Drive consistency in the approach from a communication, documentation, and quality control perspective.
• Coordinate QBR’s with team members and vendor partners that provide senior leadership with visibility to key metrics, new/enhanced functionality, and potential issues.
• Keen ability to resolve resource constraints, maintain alignment and gain buy-in.

• B.A./B.S./Business, Communications, Marketing or related field.
• 7 years of experience leading platform operations team and/or equivalent combination of platform operations and enterprise ecosystem development/support.
• 7 years of proven experience in enterprise/portfolio/program/project management experience. 
• 7 years’ experience across multiple patient services functions (e.g. patient engagement, access, hub operations, nursing service, marketing services, specialty pharmacy).
• Project Management Professional certification a strong plus.
• Skilled as a change agent champion.
• In-depth knowledge required of Salesforce platforms. 
• Proven experience in translating business needs to solution designs.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry regulations in the United States, specifically related to Patient Services functions.
• Strong, proven experience in technology enablement initiatives in the pharmaceutical space.
• Proven track record of creating portfolio level operational efficiencies.
• Innovative mindset with experience creating digital innovation roadmaps.
• Proven leadership competencies to include setting vision and strategy, building teams, knowing the business, driving results, and encouraging open exchange of ideas and knowledge.
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills with the ability to distill highly complex requirements into compelling business objectives. 
• Strong problem-solving abilities in complex, compliance regulated department.
• Highly analytical, with the ability to interpret and create action on data.
• Understanding of MDM, data integration and aggregation methodologies.

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.

About the Company:
AbbVie