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Company Description

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 Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

Come to work each day with an inclusive and collaborative business technology team. As a MES Engineering Manager, you will be a senior technical expert in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) space contributing to the advancement of MES capabilities and process digitalization at AbbVie. This extends from the back-end infrastructure management, system-to-system integration, to front-end use of MES and shopfloor execution technologies. This role will lead a team of technical engineers responsible for the platform and application engineer activities in the MES space. The MES Engineering Manager will work across technology and process groups across multiple disciplines and will manage all areas of SLC for our digital platforms in the MES space.

In this role you’ll be responsible for:

• Designing, engineering, and implementing data, software, or technology solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; Routinely demonstrate initiative and creativity in developing technology solutions.

• Serving as technical expert or leading projects/programs and technical staff to develop, test and implement significant new products, operational improvements, or devise new approaches to problems at the division/business unit.

• Analyzing and resolving technical problems using analytical problem-solving methods/techniques and associated tools/devices.

• Contributing to the advancement of functional capabilities by studying state-of-the-art tools, techniques, and computing equipment; participate in educational opportunities and professional organizations.

• Demonstrating high proficiency across a wide range of technologies and platforms related to software design and development, programming languages, data integration, data warehousing, data analysis and visualization tools, data storage, network connectivity, and virtualization/cloud environments.

• Demonstrating knowledge of the pharmaceutical and healthcare business and utilize this knowledge in the rapid advancement of agile, impactful, and cost-effective solutions.

• Operating in a highly autonomous environment, in performing activities requiring only minimal direction from or interaction with supervisor.

• Total project scope, budget, completion within budget constraints and scheduled completion date. Accountable for successful and timely completion of all tasks/projects under direct and matrix control.

• Initiating new areas of investigation that are meaningful, reliable, and can be incorporated directly into a scientific or business activity.

• Maintaining relationships with affiliates, subsidiaries, and vendors in accordance with AbbVie Values, Vendor Management Office, and Purchasing to further the mission, vision, and goals of the organization.

• Understanding and adhering to corporate standards regarding applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies, including code of conduct, safety, GxP compliance, data security, and the software development lifecycle.

• Mentoring/supervising a team, while guiding and evaluating the performance of those individuals.

Tools and skills you will use in this role:

• Windows server administration

• Infrastructure design and security hardening experience

• Network administration experience (to support troubleshooting)

• Oracle Database experience (primarily query writing)

• MES Administration/Troubleshooting (POMSnet preferred)

• End user compute experience

• SLC

Qualifications

Experiences that make you a strong candidate for this role:

Required

• Bachelor's Degree with 10 years' experience; Master's Degree with 8 years' experience; or PhD with 6 years' experience.

• 5+ years of people leadership experience in which you were guiding, mentoring, and evaluating the performance of the team.

• Possess thorough theoretical and practical understanding of manufacturing execution systems and processes.

• Experience with a latest-gen manufacturing execution platform MES, such as PAS-X, POMS.

• Experience with manufacturing shopfloor equipment integration.

• Experience managing/supporting integration between platforms as the principal engineer.

• Experience managing and troubleshooting hosting infrastructure, networking connectivity, and system-to-system integration as the principal engineer.

• Proven implementation of creative technology solutions that advanced the business.

• Excellent written and oral English communication skills.

Beneficial

• Experience with POMSnet (Aquila and/or R400)

• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing (Business or System side)

Additional Information

Why Business Technology Solutions

For anyone who wants to use technology and data to make a difference in people’s lives, shape the digital transformation of a leading biopharmaceutical company, and secure sustainable career growth within a diverse, global team: we’re ready for you.

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​

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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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AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.