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Manager, Global Portfolio Management

AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Full time · Research

Posted Aug 19, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Sep 28, 2026

Likely interview questions for this role

Written from this job description, not a generic list. Each one notes what the interviewer is really checking.

About your past

When do you escalate, and how do you escalate without it looking like you cannot handle it?

What they are checking: Escalation judgment, which this posting names as part of governance.

Tell me about a project where the subject matter experts knew more than you did about the work. How did you lead it?

What they are checking: Leading specialists without technical authority.

Describe building a working relationship with a function that had been burned by a previous project.

What they are checking: Relationship repair, which affects whether the next project works.

This is a manager role in North Chicago supporting Clinical Sciences with independent responsibility across multiple projects. What do you want to know about the size of the portfolio and how projects get assigned?

What they are checking: Checking the real load and how work arrives.

What would you do

How do you build planning scenarios when the team cannot agree on how long something will take?

What they are checking: Scenario planning as a way past an estimation deadlock.

You are leading a project team meeting and an issue surfaces that nobody wants to own. What do you do?

What they are checking: Using governance to force an issue to an owner.

A project sponsor keeps changing what success looks like. How do you handle that?

What they are checking: Managing a moving target from a project management seat.

You support several projects at once. How do you decide where your attention goes this week?

What they are checking: Prioritization across a portfolio you do not control.

About the work

This manages a portfolio of cross-functional projects for Clinical Sciences. Walk me through how you would take a broadly stated business need and turn it into a project plan.

What they are checking: Turning intent into a plan, which is the first job in this seat.

How do you keep a standardized project methodology useful rather than a set of documents nobody reads?

What they are checking: The standardized methodology this posting requires, judged by whether it helps.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

Purpose The primary function of the Manager, Global Portfolio Management is to manage their assigned portfolio of projects using standardized project management tools and processes to drive successful outcomes for Clinical Sciences and AbbVie. The incumbent will independently support multiple projects while working directly with team members and other stakeholders to address key business challenges across the Clinical Sciences organization. Responsibilities : • Partners with business stakeholders to lead the design and implementation of strategic, cross-functional, projects for Clinical Sciences. • Provides project management support to project teams, including the development of project planning scenarios in collaboration with team members, identification, monitoring, and analysis of project risks, and action item tracking, organization and communication of team materials. • Leads project team meetings effectively using project governance processes to effectively escalate and support resolution of project issues. Demonstrates effective group facilitation skills and ability to support decision-making among team members regarding project strategy and deliverables. • Collaborates effectively with management, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and team members inside and outside of Clinical Sciences to implement cross-functional solutions. • Develops effective working relationships with project team members. Communicates (oral and written) and interacts effectively with project sponsors, and shares information regarding projects concisely and effectively to project stakeholders. • Prepares status reports and dashboards using standard methodologies, tracking risks and mitigation plans, as well as other project roadblocks and facilitates resolution. • Supports deliverable preparation and may own select individual deliverables based on the needs of individual project teams. Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) • 5+ years of professional work experience with 3+ years supporting projects and programs from strategy through implementation across a range of business topics (e.g., capability development, operating model transformation, change management, process improvement). • Must possess basic project management capabilities including knowledge of project management best practices, risk analysis and mitigation planning, change management support, and stakeholder management. • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral required. • Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry. 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