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Lead, Value Stream

AbbVie

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Compensation
$97K/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 Value Stream Lead represents a Specialty Formulation or Packaging Department area, ensuring efficiency, continuous improvement, and regulatory compliance. The individual contributor works with department management and cross-functional partners on strategy for new product introductions and launches, ongoing customer commitments, and value-stream functionality. The role also drives factory-of-the-future initiatives, node performance, production-floor engagement, cost improvements, and risk mitigation.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Listening, nice to haveVerbal Communication, nice to haveWritten Communication, nice to haveOrganization, nice to haveWorkload Prioritization, nice to haveConflict Management, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Science, Engineering or Business Administration, nice to have5 Years Manufacturing 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

The Value Stream Lead (VSL) will represent their area of responsibility for the Specialty Formulation or Packaging Departments. The VSL will ensure efficiency and continuous improvement for their node while ensuring compliance is met in local, federal, and global regulations. The individual contributor will work closely with department management and cross-functional partners to ensure building the strategy for new product introductions and launches, customer on-going commitments and overall functionality of the value stream.

Responsibilities

  • Drive next generation Industry 4.0 Factory of the Future (FotF) initiatives for AP16 on applicable nodes by consulting on and driving process automation and dynamic growth models.

  • Lead respective node health check meetings to drive optimized scheduling, root cause analysis, downtime mitigation, OEE improvements and sustained OEE performance.

  • Lead production floor team member meetings to empower floor personnel with the need to drive sustained line performance and recycle ideas/feedback between health check and team member meetings.

  • Build successful strategies for New Product Introductions (NPIs) and launches on existing and/or new packaging lines. Be the conduit for novel ideas and improvements while proactively looking for best and worst case models/scenarios for respective nodes.

  • Assist management with cost standard quoting process of existing and new processes and drive continuous improvements to achieve optimized cost standards.

  • Consult and be stakeholders of appropriate Change Management and CAPAs driven from improvement projects and RCAs respectively.

  • Participate in risk assessments in the areas of human error, EM (extraneous matter), and line clearance failures for respective nodes.

  • Consult on mitigation pathways for external issues impacting the performance of respective node (supplier related issues etc.)

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering or Business Administration. Five years experience in a manufacturing facility preferably in packaging.

  • Excellent listening, verbal, written communications as well as organizational skills with the ability to prioritize workload and manage conflict.

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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 short-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: $96,500

How this job compares

Set against the 3,030 open Manufacturing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$97K/yr
  • Illinois median$91–118K/yr29 salary ranges
  • US median$100–155K/yr828 salary ranges

This rate, $97K, is 7% below the Illinois median midpoint ($104K) — in the middle half of Manufacturing salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 91 open Manufacturing jobs in Illinois and 3,030 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Manufacturing postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (1,606 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 660 of the 3,030 open Manufacturing jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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