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Senior Director, Portfolio Planning & Analytics

AbbVie

North Chicago, ILJob$207K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$207K/yr
Location
North Chicago, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree, required

Job overview

The Senior Director, Portfolio Planning and Analytics leads AbbVie’s enterprise planning and analytics organization for R&D. The role sets strategy for portfolio planning, data, digital, and technology; guides investment and prioritization decisions; and advances planning through analytics, AI, and emerging platforms. It also builds a high-performing team, stewards portfolio data, and represents AbbVie in industry conversations.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Leadership, requiredEmotional Intelligence, requiredBusiness Awareness, requiredCollaboration, requiredInfluence, requiredData Visualization, requiredBig Data, requiredArtificial Intelligence, requiredMachine Learning, requiredInnovation, requiredTechnology Deployment, requiredPlanisware, requiredCognos BI, requiredQlikView, requiredOrganization Building, requiredTalent Development, required

Qualifications

Business or Related Field, requiredScientific Discipline or Related Field, requiredInformation Technology or Related Field, requiredData Science or Related Field, requiredMaster's Degree or PhD, nice to have10+ Years Management Experience, required5+ Years Pharmaceutical Analytics Experience, requiredR&D Experience, nice to have

Benefits

Paid Time Off
Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

Full job description

Company Description

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, (https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/) Facebook, Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/abbvie/) , X (https://twitter.com/abbvie) and YouTube. (https://www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie)

Job Description

Shape the future of how AbbVie plans and manages its R&D portfolio, leading the integration of portfolio planning, analytics, AI, data, and technology to drive faster, higher-quality decisions. This highly visible leadership role combines enterprise influence with the opportunity to build enduring capabilities that directly impact portfolio performance and the delivery of innovative medicines to patients.

The Senior Director, Portfolio Planning and Analytics is a highly empowered enterprise leader accountable for building and leading a world-class planning and analytics organization. The role develops scalable and sustainable strategies that drive high-quality planning and enables informed decision making across the AbbVie enterprise.

Responsibilities:

  • Set the vision for Planning and Analytics at AbbVie in close collaboration with leadership across R&D. Serve as a trusted advisor and relationship-builder across R&D, Commercial, Finance, IT/BTS, and senior AbbVie leadership, providing data-driven insights and recommendations that support portfolio prioritization, investment decisions, and long-range planning.

  • Cultivate a high performing pipeline planning organization responsible for high-quality data stewardship in Planisware or future portfolio planning systems and employ best in class program management capabilities around scenario planning and critical path analyses to drive acceleration across AbbVie’s high-priority programs.

  • Identify existing and future business needs and deploy next generation technology and process to enable enterprise data analytics on pace with emerging integrated data sources.

  • Define and lead the data, digital, and technology strategy for the R&D organization's portfolio performance and business excellence function, translating technical strategy into business value. Oversee the prioritized technology roadmap with short- and long-term goals in partnership with key stakeholders and leveraging internal and external data sources and market intelligence to enable innovative technology solutions that support AbbVie's shared vision of delivering impactful treatments to patients.

  • Champion the adoption of artificial intelligence, advanced analytics, and emerging insight-generation platforms to transform and modernize AbbVie's end-to-end planning processes.

  • Serves as the senior leader for the Planning Platform, accountable for strategic direction, stakeholder alignment, adoption, and delivery of business value.

  • Influence AbbVie’s enterprise data governance as a steward of portfolio data and other sources that are utilized and analyzed by the planning & analytics team and cross-functional partners. Influence data owners from across R&D as well as areas that collaborate with R&D to drive holistic approach to planning and systems.

  • Build and maintain a high-performing team of innovative, solutions focused entrepreneurs who thrive on pushing beyond established boundaries to create the process/technology of the future.

  • Represent AbbVie externally within the Planning & Analytics space to drive industry conversations, while bringing best practices back to AbbVie.

  • Serve on the Portfolio Performance and Business Excellence Senior Leadership Team to provide guidance on direction and operations of the department, and to protect and preserve the AbbVie culture.

  • Monitor emerging trends across the external technology and analytics environment. Assess impacts on current and future strategies.

Qualifications

  • Degree in business, a scientific discipline, information technology, data science or a related field required. A master’s degree or PhD is preferred.

  • 10+ years of management experience, 5+ years of analytics experience within the pharmaceutical industry; R&D experience is preferred

  • Leadership acumen including emotional intelligence and business awareness. Ability to effectively collaborate and influence throughout multiple levels of the organization.

  • Expertise in current and emerging technologies (e.g. Data Visualizations, Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, etc.)

  • Exceptional ability to drive innovation and deploy technology in new ways within a changing environment

  • Proficient in systems and technologies required (eg Planisware, Cognos BI, QlikView, etc..)

  • Demonstrated value-driven leadership skills and expertise in building organizations

  • Ability to attract, challenge, develop and retain specialized talent with expertise in R&D, portfolio planning, analytics and technology

Additional Information

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 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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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Salary: $206,500

How this job compares

Set against the 1,927 open Analytics jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 12, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$207K/yr
  • Illinois median$125–171K/yr83 salary ranges
  • US median$123–198K/yr1,386 salary ranges

This rate, $207K, is 46% above the Illinois median midpoint ($142K) — in the top quarter of Analytics salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 106 open Analytics jobs in Illinois and 1,927 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience — more than three in four Analytics postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 1,593 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 874 of the 1,927 open Analytics jobs (45%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 12, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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