Associate Director, Clinical Process Engineer

About AbbVie

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, life sciences, business, or a related field required; advanced degree strongly preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent preferred; Green Belt required.
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated experience in process design, process engineering, and/or process improvement within a regulated environment (GxP, clinical development, quality systems, or similar), with progressively increasing scope and complexity.
• Deep expertise in clinical development operations and regulatory, inspection, and quality frameworks, including the ability to advise senior leadership on emerging compliance expectations.
• Expert proficiency in process mapping, methodology development, and governance design; demonstrated experience building and scaling process engineering capabilities within a large, regulated organization.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise-level, multi-stakeholder programs and governance forums with executive presence and strong facilitation skills.
• Strategic analytical skills; ability to synthesize complex, multi-variable environments into executive-ready insights and capability recommendations.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale process-to-system transformation programs, including stakeholder alignment, risk management, and program governance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; experienced presenter to senior and executive leadership.
• Proven track record of leading high-performing teams, building capability, and operating with enterprise-level judgment in a complex, matrixed, global organization.
• BPOs, Process Experts, and functional senior leadership.
• Clinical Development Operations executive leadership and governance bodies.
• Process Excellence leadership, process architects, and enterprise governance leads.
• Quality, compliance, regulatory, and inspection readiness leadership.
• Change, learning, and transformation leadership.
• Technology and digital platform leadership.
• Cross-functional program leadership, governance forums, and enterprise initiative sponsors.