Associate Service Consultant - North Chicago, United States - AbbVie

AbbVie
AbbVie
Verified Company
North Chicago, United States

4 weeks ago

Mark Lane

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Company Description
The Associate Service Consultant is accountable to improve the business/end user experience with a forward-looking mindset and spirit of continuous improvement


This includes:

  • Managing through the Managed Service Providers to quality outcomes
  • Ensuring alignment with cross functional teams and external parties

In this role you will be responsible for:

  • Demand and release change prioritization with plan build as required. Provides input and feedback into the Change, Release and Deployment processes and schedules ensuring mínimal impact and downtime of changes to the business.
  • Monitor and Approve Change Records for ACoE Owned Changes. Accountable for Demand Approval ensures right change, right change type, clear & complete scope/requirements.
  • Provide budgetary impact of proposed changes to plan organization and ensure transfer of budget and updates portfolio tracker.
  • Accountable for ensuring that the Service Transition processes are fully executed. Approve readiness for support transition and serves as escalation point for any delays in service transition
  • Primary point of accountability with fulfillment of Audit Artifact Service Requests. Coordinates with internal compliance team for internal compliance driven audit requests. Monitors MSP execution of Audit process and procedures. Ensures timely and accurate delivery of external compliance driven audit artifacts.
  • Evaluates and Approves the Service Providers reported performance trends and the process improvement recommendations to identify areas where preventative maintenance might be performed to improve Applications performance and efficiency. Reviewing ticket patterns and identifying opportunities that were presented by their MSP. Approves SLA exception breaches.
  • Performs summary daily reviews of prior days ticket activity: queue levels, processing efficiency, backlogs, aging levels along with prior day Incidents and adjusts priorities as needed to ensure that ticket processing and the Problem Management engines are performing within expected operational parameters. Acting approver for SLA exception breaches.
  • Serves as primary AbbVie contact point and first level of escalation for Incidents and Problems., including activities that require multiple teams to solution. Assists, when needed, with the prioritization and escalation of system recovery issues with Crossfunctional, Build and Infrastructure teams.

Qualifications Tools and skills you will use in this role**:

  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Linux
  • Interpreting technical languages for business partners
  • ITIL

Experiences that make you a good fit in this role:

Required:

  • Bachelor's Degree with 6 years' experience; Master's Degree with 5 years' experience; PhD with 0 years' experience.
  • Proven experience with Application outsourcing and terminology such as Minor Enhancements, ARC's/RRC's, Service Level Management and Vendor Management.
  • Prior experience with systematically and logically interpreting data, including analyzing trends, solving complex problems, and presenting recommendations to management.
  • Prior experience managing changes and change control processes and methodologies.
  • Proven experience managing and executing complex IT processes and demonstrated ability to identify exceptions to the process, or potential process improvements.
  • Experience with identifying and executing continuous improvement opportunities and cost reduction initiatives.
  • Experience facilitating crossfunctional meetings and demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally.

Beneficial:

  • Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.
  • Ability to prioritize and multitask.
  • Strong problem resolution skills.
  • Ability to influence key stakeholders to adopt innovative technology solutions in support of their strategic agenda
  • Experience in learning a new business and building both horizontal and vertical relationships with business and IT leaders
  • Proven experience with ITIL, specifically Incident and Problem management as well as Continuous Improvement Planning (CIP), Cost Optimization, Demand and Release and Deployment Management.
  • ITIL
Foundation Certification.

  • ITIL
Intermediate Certification in Service Operations.

  • Experience developing and implementing Operating Level Agreements (OLA's).
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate crossfunctional teams towards task completion.
  • Experience with Service Operations in a global, multisourced environment.

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.


Additional Information

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good
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