Senior Manager, Platform Enablement - Lake County, IL

Senior Manager, Platform Enablement

AbbVie Patient Services is an industry leading organization, providing unparalleled patient support, resulting in improved brand loyalty and patient satisfaction. The Senior Manager, Platform Enablement will be the day-to-day lead for the design, development and implementation of assigned technical tools and platforms that enable the strategic capabilities of AbbVie Patient Services and vendor partners. This role is critical to ensuring the solutions align to the strategic intent and operate efficiently.

To be successful, this person will have to partner cross functionally to understand the business capabilities supported currently and future state business needs to advance the various platforms and applications that support AbbVie's patient support programs. In addition to being highly collaborative, they must have strong written and oral communication skills, They should be comfortable with developing relationships across a diverse spectrum of customers, while having the ability to prioritize initiatives based on key value propositions. This role will be required to clearly evaluate, articulate and partner to drive alignment across technology ecosystem interdependencies, and execute with cross functional teams including Business Technology Solutions, Compliance, Legal, Marketing, Patient Engagement, Access and Reimbursement, Enterprise Strategy, and vendor partners.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring external partners platform teams are aligned on the business strategy and can translate that into tactical plans, while constantly looking for optimization opportunities that drive efficiency and potential cost savings.
• Evolve business solutions and platforms to optimize enterprise capabilities and enhance overall patient experience.
• Building out appropriate system monitoring and KPI's required to compare to SLA's and ensure contractual obligations are met is critical.
• Creating relationships with our strategic partners is critical towards building open lines of communication, sharing expectations related to quality, integration efforts, support needs, and the delivery of QBRs.
• Accountable for vendor partner timelines, risk identification, systems budget planning, scope, and delivery.
• Partner with and understand key business stakeholder's drivers and strategic objectives to provide solutions to challenging business scenarios, while establishing appropriate communication strategy for keeping our business partners aligned on status, progress, challenges, and timing of projects.
• Appropriately prioritize team workloads and conduct impact assessments on all integration efforts to ensure they deliver the intended value and align with the business strategy.
• Help to prioritize the work for our vendors counterparts, to ensure their priorities align with the APS business priorities, while also ensuring that we have necessary business test cases aligned to allow the business to confirm the solution is working as intended and drives a seamless experience for patients and end users.
• Accountable for team delivery, execution of plans, and identifies opportunities to motivate team members to maximize Patient Services effectiveness.
• High functioning agile methodology mindset with imperatives to build solutions with a focus on user engagement from initial requirements through development, testing, launch, and transition to an operational state.
• Experienced understanding of user acceptance testing best practices and architecting processes that maximize user engagements and deliver quality, predictable releases.
• Proactively identify risks and architect risk mitigation strategies that remove hurdles and promote progression of programs.
• Must effectively establish and maintain credibility and influence key stakeholders through subject matter expertise, relatability, adaptable, and agile mindsets.
• Drive consistency in the approach from a communication, documentation, and quality control perspective.
• Help coordinate QBR's with team members and vendor partners that provide senior leadership with visibility to key metrics, new / enhanced functionality, and potential issues.
• Keen ability to resolve resource constraints, maintain alignment and gain buy-in.

Qualifications

AbbVie Competencies

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