Abbvie Job Openings - Round Lake Beach, United States - AbbVie

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About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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:

immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines 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:

immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women's health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

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:
Delivering business value by maximizing financial investment and the sustainability of the application

Managing through the Managed Service Providers to quality outcomes

Ensuring alignment with cross functional teams and external parties

Responsibilities

Participate in P1- P2 MIM bridge and on call rotation. Confirms business impact and approves all system stop/starts and down/ups.

Ensure Application Runbook is Operationally Ready (current, accurate, comprehensive).

Problem Management reviews and approvals, Reviews RCAs for quality & appropriateness.

Act as a liaison for SOP Guidance/Clarifications, etc. to MSP, ensure adherence and continuous improvement.

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

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.

Ensuring the communication plans are executed.


ROLES
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.

Monitor and approve Change Records for ACoE Owned Changes. Accountable for Demand Approval – ensures right change, right change type, clear & complete scope/requirements.

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.

Govern the application recertification process occurs as scheduled. Provide audit results as needed.

Assists MSPs in ensuring that all the user access to IT systems is properly controlled and authenticated and segregation of duties are maintained.

ROLES
Approve On-boarding requests for MSP resources that require access and training.

Problem Management reviews and approvals, Reviews RCAs for quality & appropriateness.

Ensuring the communication plans are executed.

This position is responsible for managing support of Data Services systems, as well as certain SAP Support Teams.

Escalation support for any activity that requires multiple teams to solution.

Serves as escalation point for any delays in service transition.

Escalation support for any activity that requires multiple teams to solution.

Manage and maintain ACoE owned email distribution lists.

Notify MSP of critical business activities. Coordinate planned outages for ACoE driven activities. Ensure the communication and advise on risk for Non-ACoE driven activities that require an outage.

Drive Customer Satisfaction & follow up to survey responses.

Responsible for reviewing the Service Provider Service Level Agreements and participating in any action plans that are required to address any deviations and/or improvement opportunities with the supplier.

Helps manage the relationship with vendors to ensure superior service delivery for all application maintenance and support activities.,

Assists MSPs in ensuring that all the user access to IT systems is properly controlled and authenticated and segregation of duties are maintained.

Responsible for reviewing the Service Provider Service Level Agreements and participating in any action plans that are required to address any deviations and/or improvement opportunities with the supplier.

Helps manage the relationship with vendors to ensure superior service delivery for all application maintenance and support activities.,

Provide budgetary impact of proposed changes to plan organization and ensure transfer of budget and updates portfolio tracker.

Through the MSP, maximize the Application eco-system opportunities: performance, financials, usage, maintainability and sustainability, etc.

Approve On-boarding requests for MSP resources that require access and training.

Perform 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.

Notify MSP of critical business activities. Coordinate planned outages for ACoE driven activities. Ensure the communication and advise on risk for Non-ACoE driven activities that require an outage.

Interact with Plan/Build for new projects and services and disaster recovery. Coordinate and meet with business stakeholders aligned with Plan BRM (or equivalent) resource.

Through the MSP, maximize the Application eco-system opportunities: performance, financials, usage, maintainability and sustainability, etc.

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 Cross-functional, Build and Infrastructure teams.

Serves as escalation point for any delays in service transition.

Interact with Plan/Build for new projects and services and disaster recovery. Coordinate and meet with business stakeholders aligned with Plan BRM (or equivalent) resource.

Oversight of the MSP decommission activities, post data archival.

Drive Customer Satisfaction & follow up to survey responses.

Participate in P1- P2 MIM bridge and on call rotation. Confirms business impact and approves all system stop/starts and down/ups.

Present Service Level Agreements and cost metrics to the Technology Domains following the pre-defined Governance structure.

Present continuous improvement plans and vendor performance metrics.

Govern the application recertification process occurs as scheduled. Provide audit results as needed.

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 Cross-

functional, Build and Infrastructure teams.

Present Service Level Agreements and cost metrics to the Technology Domains following the pre-defined Governance structure.

Present continuous improvement plans and vendor performance metrics.

Demand and release change prioritization with Plan/Build Team as required. Provides input and feedback into the Change,

Release and Deployment processes and schedules ensuring minimal impact and downtime of changes to the business.

Provide budgetary impact of proposed changes to plan organization and ensure transfer of budget and updates portfolio tracker.

Perform 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.

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

Monitor and approve Change Records for ACoE Owned Changes. Accountable for Demand Approval – ensures right change,

right change type, clear & complete scope/requirements.

Act as a liaison for SOP Guidance/Clarifications, etc. to MSP, ensure adherence and continuous improvement.

Manage and maintain ACoE owned email distribution lists.

Ensure Application Runbook is Operationally Ready (current, accurate, comprehensive).

Oversight of the MSP decommission activities, post data archival.

This position is responsible for managing support of Data Services systems, as well as certain SAP Support Teams.

Demand and release change prioritization with Plan/Build Team as required. Provides input and feedback into the Change,

Release and Deployment processes and schedules ensuring minimal impact and downtime of changes to the business.

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.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree with 6 years' experience; Master's Degree with 5 years' experience; PhD with 0 years' experience

Minimum of 6+ years of combined experience in Information Technology.

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 cross-functional meetings and demonstrated ability to effectively communicate both written and verbally.

Preferred Qualifications

Knowledge and experience Data Services systems and/or SAP experience is a plus.

Master's Degree in Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies.

Knowledge of (could be a platform or a vertical such as SQL Server, S/4 HANA, or Life Sciences Pharmaceutical Research and Development or Financial application technologies, etc.).

Ability to prioritize and multi-task.

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 cross-functional teams towards task completion.

Experience with Service Operations in a global, multi-sourced environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients.

As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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