Associate Director, Americas Facility Planning (Onsite)

Job Description
The Associate Director, Americas Facility Planning roleis a key AbbVie management position responsible for providing corporate guidance on activities related to strategic planning, market demand and trends, strategic opportunities and business needs, technological advances, and legal requirements. The position is also directly responsible for managing and driving the corporation's effective utilization of office, lab, and warehouse assets.
Responsibilities:
Provides leadership and centralized management for planning and development related to divisions or programs to achieve key strategic business objectives.
Manages multiple, often concurrent, projects and consistently meets expectations.
Makes difficult decisions regarding priorities among projects.
Excellent communication skills, cross-functional stakeholder management skills, customer relationship skills, and executive presence are required.
Experience in motivating, directing, and managing performance for 5 to 10 direct reports. Fosters an environment of collaboration, innovation, and exchange of ideas.
Understands business needs and has extensive experience defining customer strategic needs when developing a project scope.
Integrates technology with business needs when defining project scope. Familiarity with Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) systems and database management is desirable.
Leads the project team using established PM tools and techniques (scope definition, alternatives appraisal, schedule control, cost control, risk management, etc.) to stay within authorized budget limits and achieve the overall project and organizational objectives.
The lead project team is comprised of internal and external resources. Performs periodic reviews of portfolio resource allocation to ensure balance within the team.
Coordinate/team with Corporate Real Estate, IT, and other ABV internal functions as appropriate.
Monitors aggregate performance and value indicators/metrics. Understand the importance of the same.
Anticipates and identifies areas of tactical and strategic risk and mitigates risks through early risk assessments and the implementation of fallback/mitigation strategies.
Collaborates with functional experts to integrate project management best practices into strategies and tactics for developing key projects.
Develops a strategic view of the division and corporation's project management practices and methodologies. Assists with the integration of standard tools and techniques across divisions.