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Manager, Procurement Management

AbbVie · North Chicago, IL · Full time · Finance

Posted Aug 21, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Walk me through a source-to-contract cycle you ran end to end. What took longer than it should have?

What they are checking: Real cycle ownership and honesty about the bottleneck.

Tell me about feeding supplier performance information back to a category manager that changed the strategy.

What they are checking: The tactical-to-strategic feedback loop this posting describes.

This is a manager role in North Chicago focused on execution, while AbbVie also posted a Procurement Category Manager for consulting services focused on strategy. Why this one for you, and what do you want to know about the categories in scope?

What they are checking: Self-placement between the two procurement roles posted together.

What would you do

How do you meet supplier diversity and sustainability requirements without treating them as a box to tick?

What they are checking: The compliance duty this posting names, judged by whether it changes outcomes.

A category manager sets a strategy you think will not work operationally. What do you do?

What they are checking: The relationship with category managers this role depends on.

How do you implement a risk mitigation plan on a supplier who does not think there is a problem?

What they are checking: Turning a plan into supplier action.

A business team went around procurement and signed something. How do you handle it?

What they are checking: Policy compliance handled without making the business an enemy.

About the work

This role runs the process from strategic sourcing through contracting. Where do sourcing processes most often break down in execution?

What they are checking: Execution awareness, which is what this seat is accountable for.

What breaks in the requisition-to-pay process, and how have you fixed it?

What they are checking: Depth in the second half of the process this role owns.

How do you keep contract execution accurate when volume is high and every contract is a little different?

What they are checking: Quality at volume in contract administration.

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The full job description

As published by AbbVie.

The Manager, Procurement Management is responsible for managing the entire procurement process, from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring detailed execution aligned with category strategic vision. This role focuses on overseeing supplier selection and management, maintaining compliance with procurement policies, and executing tactical processes for supplier diversity and sustainability. Responsibilities: • Manage activities from strategic sourcing to contracting, ensuring effective and detailed execution, including alignment with defined category strategic vision. • Maintain compliance with procurement policy and fulfills business requirements of supplier diversity and sustainability, executing tactical processes to create value. • Drive supplier management and ensures alignment to SRM strategy as determined by Procurement Lead and Category Managers, fostering a collaborative and innovative approach to supplier interactions. • Implement risk mitigation plans developed in collaboration with Category Managers, providing tactical input on supplier performance and relaying the identification of procurement risks to safeguard the organization’s interest and maintain operational resilience. • Maintain excellence in all contract execution activities including source to contract and requisition to pay, owning the implementation of strategies to identify inefficiencies in process design and execution. • Enable savings and assurance of supply, manage savings leakage across downstream procurement processes • Administer continuous improvement projects initiated by the PSC team, embracing and furthering a spirit of adaptability and innovation in procurement operations. • Lead and nurture a team of Specialists, setting ambitious performance targets, providing tailored coaching, and evaluating team performance. • Partner with other Procurement leaders and business partners as needed to define skillsets, workforce requirements, capability needs, and long-term organizational staffing goals. • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Mgmt or related field. • Minimum of 7 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, or related business or operations function. • Previous experience managing teams and comprehensive understanding of procurement operations. • Strong analytical, problem-solving, and leadership skills. • Knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry is preferred. Key Stakeholders: Business Leads, Business Partners, Category Leads/Managers, Procurement Leads 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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