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Associate Director, Supply Chain Brand

AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Full time · Supply Chain

Posted Sep 22, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time you negotiated with a commercial leader on forecast assumptions.

What they are checking: Whether they can negotiate forecast assumptions with commercial leaders using evidence, so supply plans rest on agreed and realistic numbers.

Describe a lifecycle change you led, such as a new presentation or site transfer. How did you avoid a supply gap?

What they are checking: Whether they can manage lifecycle changes without a supply gap, which requires careful timing across sites, regulators and inventory.

Tell me about a time you had to deliver bad news about supply to senior leadership.

What they are checking: Whether they deliver bad supply news to leaders early and clearly, with options, rather than hoping the problem resolves itself.

Describe a risk you spotted early in a supply chain and how you mitigated it.

What they are checking: Whether they look ahead for supply risks and act before they become shortages, rather than reacting once patients are affected.

What would you do

Demand for a billion-dollar product jumps well above forecast. What do you do in the first week?

What they are checking: Whether they respond to a demand spike quickly and across functions, protecting patient supply for a product that cannot run short.

A developmental product is coming into the brand plan. How do you work with Industrialization to get ready?

What they are checking: Whether they work early with industrialization to bring new products into supply planning, avoiding surprises close to launch.

How do you balance compliance requirements against pressure to move fast?

What they are checking: Whether they hold quality and compliance firm under business pressure, since shortcuts in pharma supply can harm patients and the license.

About the work

Walk me through how you'd run an executive-level S&OP discussion for an immunology brand.

What they are checking: Whether they can lead an executive S&OP meeting to clear decisions, rather than a review of numbers with no outcome.

How do you connect inventory decisions with the LRP and annual Plan?

What they are checking: Whether they connect inventory decisions to the long-range and annual financial plans, since supply choices carry real financial impact.

Which supply chain KPIs would you put in front of a VP, and why those?

What they are checking: Whether they choose a few metrics that prompt the right executive conversations, rather than a crowded dashboard nobody acts on.

How do you build a long-term continuity of supply strategy for a key product?

What they are checking: Whether they plan for disruption with dual sourcing and safety stock, so a single failure does not cut off patients.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

Purpose Coordinates complex Supply Chain and Operations Teams to align with business goals, ensuring strategic contributions and compliance. Lead complex operations impacting billion-dollar sales within the Immunology Portfolio, interface with stakeholders, manage strategies, risk management, and lead negotiations. Primary interface with a wide variety of functions in both Ops and Commercial. Ensures alignment on brand/product forecasts, as well as key cross functional project initiatives (Commercial Directors, VPs, and SVPs). Responsibilities • Directs and presents S&OP topics at the executive level across functions, driving synergy between demand and supply planning, with comprehensive oversight of operational performance via KPIs and other targets. Develops and drives strategies to ensure long term continuity of supply. • Oversees and aligns the financial planning cycle, including LRP and annual Plan, while managing inventory and ensuring synchronization of strategic goals with financial planning across functions. • Leads lifecycle management with a strategic view, ensuring changes align with business goals and collaborating with cross-functional teams for smooth transitions. Creates change plans and supply chain assessments in executing lifecycle programs. • Interacts with the Industrialization team to ensure strategic integration of developmental products into brand planning, aligning timelines and resource allocation with operational strategies. • Directs alignment between brand and Clinical Drug Supply Management to meet strategic trial needs, ensuring synchronization of supply chain and clinical demand planning. • Oversees interaction with PPDST and Asset Strategy Teams ensuring collaborative strategy development, aligning product roadmaps and brand positioning with asset strategies. • Bachelor’s degree (preferred STEM or similar area, Masters preferred including MBA); 8+ years of experience. • Requires high-level strategic thinking, excellent communication, shaping discussion and influencing at the executive level, and large-scale change management skills. • Operations experience preferred; in pharma / regulated life sciences business. • Strong knowledge in data analytics and telling a story through data. • Filtering and identifying the business critical aspects of a problem (separate the minor issues from the major issues). • Required manufacturing or other pharma experience. 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.​ 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. US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more: https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/reasonable-accommodations.html

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