Head of Site and Scientific Services (all genders) (permanent / full-time) - Allergan : Job Details

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

The job that makes possibilities real in patients' lives. And yours.

The job that helps you get ahead in life. Moving mountains together.

Welcome to AbbVie! As part of an international company with 48,000 employees worldwide and around 3,000 employees in Germany, you will have the opportunity of addressing some of tomorrow's unmet medical needs in close collaboration with your colleagues. Are you passionate about improving global health care? Do you want to contribute to improving patients' quality of life through your expertise? In a challenging work environment that offers opportunities of developing and increasing your own skills? You've come to the right place!

Moving mountains together – as Head of Site and Scientific Services (all genders) (permanent / full-time)

As a core member of several AbbVie Germany leadership teams (e.g. R&D LU Extended Leadership Team (RDLT), R&D Support Services Germany), the Head of Site and Scientific Services has a disciplinary responsibility of leading 5 direct and 29 indirect employees (including contractors). The responsibility includes a >8 MM € budget responsibility for direct/indirect spend.

The Head of Site and Scientific Services is responsible for delivering a customer targeted and cost-effective service approach, considering the available infrastructure resources. The position holder is responsible for developing new, innovative, and competitive strategies for site and scientific services balancing current and future AbbVie business needs with available resources. This includes monitoring local and global trends, external benchmarking, and the need to identify, promote and implement new and cutting-edge initiatives to meet AbbVie's strategic and financial targets as well as local, regional, and global customer demands.

The Head of Site and Scientific Services is also responsible for the laboratory space utilization planning for R&D employees and departments in LU. Transferring and implementing the new laboratory space concepts into the new R&D laboratory building LUnA, ensuring efficient utilization of the new laboratory areas.

Responsibilities

• Interpret, develop, and implement strategies, policies, procedures, and systems to ensure high standards for embedded internal service groups to balance business needs and availability of resources.
• Responsible for the management, training and developing a compliant and diverse workforce of employees, group leaders, supervisors and contractors.
• Responsible to meet internal and external customer service expectations including interaction with key AbbVie customers participating in customer audits and programs that are expected to improve service or support AbbVie business activity, product security or customer relationships.
• Monitor local and global trends, both internally and externally, and needs to continuously adjust the Site and Scientific Services and Strategic Planning strategy to meet customer demands as well as to drive the strategic development of the embedded groups.
• Drive expansion strategy for expert groups to gain local, regional, and global recognition and to extend the client base.
• Oversight and coordination of legal radiation protection compliance for LU Site.

General

• Ensures compliance of Site and Scientific Services with applicable rules and regulations on local, federal and global levels. Provides and supports the specific position of Radiation Safety Officer for AbbVie Germany.
• Ensure proper resource and investment planning, as well as actual spend tracking for all teams, anticipating upcoming trends and opportunities.
• Build high-performing teams including hiring of key talent, setting realistic and challenging performance expectations, providing regular and clear feedback, fostering development and succession plans and dealing with performance issues. Drive effective collaboration amongst the teams. Develop talents by coaching and applying the 70-20-10 approach.
• Continuing holistic stakeholder engagement and drive proactively communication and excellence change management on site and towards US stakeholders.

• BS/BA or higher degree with 5+ years' experience in pharma industry and 3+ years in consultancy
• Extended technical understanding and expertise
• Extended understanding of Operations Management
• Extended understanding of Strategy Development and Deployment
• Experienced in Change Management to lead transformational change projects that impacts people as well as processes
• Extensive Project Management experience for projects that involve diverse stakeholders and contradicting expectations
• Experience with budget planning and management
• Extended networking and communication skills
• Mentoring and Leadership experience
• Open mindset for exploring new solutions
• Living up to the AbbVie values and Ways We Work
• Equivalent experience is acceptable

Here's how we can move mountains together

• with a diverse work environment where you can have a real impact
• with an open corporate culture
• with an attractive salary
• with an intensive onboarding process with a mentor at your side
• with flexible work models for a healthy work-life balance
• with a corporate health management that offers comprehensive health and exercise programs
• with company social benefits
• with a wide range of career opportunities in an international organization
• with top-tier, attractive development opportunities
• with a strong international network

Multiple times, we have been globally recognized as a Great Place to Work and we are proud to provide our employees with the flexibility to maintain a healthy work-life balance. We take our impact on the environment and our communities seriously and therefore focus on giving something back on a regular basis. We are committed to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EED&I) – a commitment that is fundamental to us. This includes appreciating different perspectives, creating an inclusive culture and treating all employees with dignity and respect.

At AbbVie, your individual contributions count – help us move mountains together. Be a part of our success, grow with us and accomplish more than you could have imagined. Sounds like the perfect career opportunity for you? We look forward to receiving your application! All you need is a complete CV – we will discuss everything else with you in person.

Have questions? Email [email protected] – we look forward to hearing from you!

Nur gemeinsam können wir das Beste für Patienten erreichen. Daher setzen wir bei AbbVie auf Chancengleichheit, Vielfalt & Inklusion. Wir gestalten ein Arbeitsumfeld, in dem alle Mitarbeiter ihr Potenzial entfalten können – unabhängig von Geschlecht, Herkunft, Religion, sexueller Orientierung oder anderen Vielfaltsdimensionen. Doch für uns bedeutet Vielfalt mehr als nur offensichtliche Unterschiede zu berücksichtigen: Sie bezieht sich auch auf unterschiedliche Ausbildungshintergründe, Fachkenntnisse, Persönlichkeitstypen, Denkweisen und Lebenserfahrungen.