Associate Director, APS Enterprise Planning

Job Description

The Associate Director, Enterprise Planning, supports U.S. Patient Services (APS) by leading enterprise planning, portfolio governance, capacity planning, and organizational coordination. This role creates the frameworks, processes, and visibility needed to align strategic priorities with organizational capacity and enable effective decision-making across APS.

Serving as the operational leader for the APS ALIGN intake and planning process, the Associate Director provides end-to-end portfolio visibility, facilitates leadership governance and prioritization, and ensures initiatives are aligned with strategic objectives, available resources, and delivery capacity. The role partners extensively with APS leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategic direction into actionable priorities, manage dependencies and trade-offs, and drive execution of key commitments.

The Associate Director also advances APS portfolio management capabilities, maintains critical planning and reporting processes, and drives adoption of tools and ways of working that support transparency, accountability, and informed decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Strategic Planning & Portfolio Governance: Lead the processes and governance mechanisms that enable APS to identify, prioritize, manage, and communicate enterprise initiatives.
  • Strategic Planning: Facilitate annual and ongoing strategic planning processes, translating enterprise objectives into aligned organizational priorities and initiatives.
  • Portfolio Intake & Governance: Establish and manage a standardized intake, evaluation, prioritization, and governance process for enterprise initiatives and emerging business needs.
  • Portfolio Management: Maintain an integrated portfolio of enterprise priorities, including initiative ownership, milestones, dependencies, risks, and progress against commitments.
  • Enterprise Priorities Dashboard: Develop and maintain a centralized dashboard providing organizational transparency into strategic priorities, initiative status, key milestones, and decisions.
  • Leadership Decision Support: Facilitate portfolio reviews and governance discussions, enabling leadership to evaluate trade-offs, resolve competing priorities, and make informed investment and sequencing decisions.

 

• Enterprise Capacity Planning & Coordination: Establish and facilitate an integrated approach to capacity planning across APS, ensuring organizational commitments are informed by functional resource availability and competing demands.

• Capacity Planning Framework: Develop standardized approaches, tools, and planning cadences that enable functional leaders to assess capacity against enterprise priorities.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Lead the coordination of capacity planning across functional leaders, integrating their assessments to identify organizational constraints, dependencies, and potential resource conflicts.
• Demand and Capacity Visibility: Consolidate functional capacity inputs to provide enterprise-level visibility into anticipated demand, available capacity, and potential execution risks.
• Scenario Planning: Support leadership in evaluating prioritization, timing, and sequencing alternatives when enterprise demand exceeds available capacity.
• Leadership Accountability: Facilitate capacity planning discussions and establish expectations for timely, accurate inputs while maintaining functional leaders' accountability for their own resource allocation and capacity management.

 

• Organizational Planning & Enablement: Lead organizational planning processes and coordination mechanisms that enable effective collaboration, communication, and operational continuity across APS.

• Organizational Onboarding: Establish and coordinate standardized onboarding processes for new team members and leaders, ensuring effective integration into APS structures, priorities, governance processes, and ways of working.
• Organizational Connectivity: Oversee the governance and maintenance of organizational distribution lists, stakeholder directories, and communication structures to support accurate, efficient information sharing.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Facilitate intra-team and cross-functional stakeholder alignment, ensuring clarity regarding roles, responsibilities, decision rights, and organizational interfaces.
• Operating Rhythms: Establish and coordinate organizational planning calendars, leadership touchpoints, and information-sharing mechanisms that support effective enterprise operations.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize organizational planning processes, reduce administrative complexity, and improve the employee and leadership

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience in strategic planning, portfolio management, business operations, or enterprise program governance.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional planning and influence senior leaders without direct authority. Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and change leadership skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and facilitation capabilities.
• Experience developing governance frameworks, executive dashboards, and leadership reporting.
• Ability to translate complex organizational priorities into structured, actionable planning processes.

 

Key Criteria:

• • • Strategic Planning or Portfolio Management Experience
    • Analytical/ organizational capabilities
    • Excellent stakeholder management

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.​

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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, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.