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Purpose

We are seeking a Director of Data Strategy to join the Finance Transformation team. The Director will be responsible for Data Strategy and will oversee the strategy, design, implementation, and management of the organization's enterprise finance data foundation. This individual will lead a team dedicated to delivering our enterprise financial systems and ensuring effective governance of the data within those systems. This role will also be responsible for setting strategy and aligning Finance goals with AbbVie’s Enterprise vision. 

This role will be responsible for leading a team focused on enterprise financial systems, with a specific focus on enable additional capabilities within our SAP environment and supporting the implementation of related technology programs from a Finance perspective.  This role will require collaboration with Finance and Enterprise stakeholders to build an enterprise data strategy that leverages data and insights for informing our finance and wider business strategy. 

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes a comprehensive data strategy aligned with business objectives, ensuring the effective capture, storage, analysis, and utilization of data assets, as well as optimized analytic tools and systems. 

• Leads and develops a high-performing data analytics team responsible for providing enterprise-wide data insights to steer business strategy and decision-making. 

• Creates a data-centric approach to support business questions, decisions, and actions by assisting with the development of an analytics and data roadmap. 

• Works with Finance stakeholders and Business Technology Services (BTS) to continuously manage team delivery to project timelines, deliverables, and milestones, ensuring timely, high-quality, and high-adoption data products. 

• Collaborates with Finance stakeholders and BTS to ensure infrastructure designs and approaches meet the required business data and analytic capabilities. 

• Contributes to the creation of a multi-year roadmap for Finance data and system capabilities, including investments in people, processes, and technology.  

• Collaborates with other business systems owners to rationalize the data environment across the Finance enterprise into a scalable, central data architecture.  

• Collaborates with Finance Data Governance team members to ensure governance frameworks that support both centralized strategy and localized business unit needs are met.  

• Stays current on emerging trends and technologies in data and analytics delivery, and provide recommendations for adopting new capabilities, tools, and platforms. 

• Manages external vendors or consultants to ensure the successful implementation and integration of data systems within the existing environment. 

• Builds high-trust relationships with business partners. 

• Ensures compliance with data privacy regulations and other legal requirements related to data management. 

The ideal candidate will: 

• Execute the enterprise data strategy and influence decision-makers while leading data change management efforts across the organization. 

• Drive an effective data-driven culture that scales to meet the needs of all Finance functions across AbbVie. 

Qualifications

• Preference for candidates local to the Chicagoland area.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Information Technology or related field. 

• Minimum 12 years of progressive leadership experience. 

• Implementation experience with Data Governance, Data catalog, Analytics, etc. tools. 

• Experience with SAP Suite products, PowerBI, Tableau, etc. 

• Strong financial acumen and familiarity with financial systems and processes. 

• Strong interpersonal skills, including written and oral communication skills. 

• Solid business judgment capable of driving a diverse organization to the right results with a focused, pragmatic approach. 

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders. 

• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence individuals significantly senior to self. 

• Demonstrated executive presence and ability to represent AbbVie Finance in a professional manner with senior executives and external partners. 

• Experience interacting independently with senior leadership on strategic, tactical and confidential issues that have both immediate and long-term business impacts. 

• Demonstrated project management ability of multiple simultaneous projects with many moving pieces. 

• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment, adaptable to last-minute changes in requirements or priorities. 

• Ability to get results through collaboration and coordination with multiple stakeholders, both internal and external. 

• Advanced analytical and process diagnostic skills and the ability to get into the details, while also understanding and driving the full team to achieve results in line with the “big picture” objectives. 

• Conflict resolution capabilities, particularly in finding common ground for win/win solutions in a matrixed environment. 

• Ability to deliver feedback, recognize strong performance, and also recognize when corrective action would benefit individual and group performance.  

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 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. ​

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

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