Senior Project Manager

About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

AbbVie's in-house Advertising Agency, A3 is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead overall project implementation and optimize development with stakeholders in multiple functional areas both inside and outside of the group.

The successful candidate will oversee multiple projects (high volume), ensuring they are delivered on time (rapid pace), within scope, and on budget, while driving innovation and strategic growth. Success in this role requires a change agent who is passionate, with high energy, and is results-oriented with a creative and analytical mind.  Expert knowledge developing a diverse set of advertising tactics (print, digital) preferred. Ability to quickly adapt to and use advanced project management tools and processes is desirable. Individuals should have the ability to manage critical situations and high communication skills (written & verbal).

This position will lead a therapeutic area product portfolio with assets in market and indications planned for launch leveraging Project Management processes and methodology and software platforms (Kantata, Workfront) within A3 to partner with other PMs and ensure consistency across the team, with an eye toward overall A3 processes and resources allocation for efficiency across the full A3 team.

This is a hybrid position and requires the ability to commute to our Mettawa, IL office at least 3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Ability to understand pharmaceutical marketing material development, the pharmaceutical review process (MRL) – its steps and length – and the risk posture
• Possess the ability to work in a high-volume, rapidly paced environment
• Develop, implement and manage agency workflow processes
• Partner with Account and Project Managers to proactively move projects within the agency
• Good judgement to understanding the risk posture when advocating for project agility
• Run daily hot sheets including setting deliverables for the day and documenting next steps
• Work collaboratively with internal teams to ensure client requests and ideals are being met
• Understand company guidelines including corporate branding, promotional material development, Veeva PromoMats review, and corporate compliance
• Participate in cross-functional negotiations to ensure all teams are aligned on project resources and timelines
• Take responsibility and create awareness for all project risks; actively collaborate with stakeholders to establish appropriate solutions
• Demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritize and multi-task to enhance productivity and manage workload
• Manage the onboarding, and on-going training for team agency project managers.

Accountability/Scope

• Reports to a Associate Director
• Partners with account and creative team on project initiatives
• Adherence to all company-wide financial policies

• Bachelor's degree required
• 5+ years of advertising Project Manager experience required
• 5+ years of pharmaceutical marketing experience within an advertising agency highly preferred
• Excellent communication skills: verbal, presentation, written
• High energy, positive, organized individual who is comfortable in a high-visibility role
• Great collaborator with the ability to focus on both the big picture and small details

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 thisposting 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 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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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