Job Description: The Manager, Global Procurement Systems supports the Global Procurement Systems Sr. Manager within R&D Procurement (RDP). This role will be responsible for driving operational excellence, supporting process governance, and collaborating across global teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality system solutions. This role also involves proactively supporting and optimizing production environment, addressing ongoing system issues and needs, and fostering continuous improvement and innovation for the business and user community.

Key Responsibilities:

Function as a global point of contact within R&D Procurement (RDP) for Procurement program initiatives, collaborating closely with the Sr. Manager, Global Procurement Systems.
Lead and support process transformation and continuous improvement initiatives including standardization, simplification, and technology innovation related to yearly system releases.
Provide support for end-to-end business processes. Maintain accountability for defect tracking and issue resolution. Collaborate with BTS on LMIC monthly maintenances releases. Lead and execute UAT activities and ensure release notes are effectively communicated to end users.
Drive the formulation and implementation of group goals and objectives to ensure the Systems Team excels in managing training materials and system documentation. Proactively lead initiatives that optimize the team's effectiveness and accountability in all related responsibilities.
Facilitate requirements gathering by partnering collaboratively with stakeholders to understand their needs and provide strategies to effectively achieve process improvement goals that can be enabled via technology.
Contribute to identifying future optimization opportunities to meet business needs and provide insights for operational improvements and alternate strategies, methodologies and best practices.
Collaborate with and support BTS teams, to ensure successful implementation and deployment of maintenance and full releases.
Provide operational process expertise during migrations, business expansions (M&A/divestitures), and other change initiatives. Requires the ability to review and understand life sciences contracts and amendments, determine proper document alignment, and support accurate database corrections during migrations.
Identify and bridge knowledge gaps with BTS during requirements gathering sessions to ensure all business needs are accurately captured and met. Assess and define integration requirements to enable seamless interoperability with other systems.
Create and implement dashboards to provide analytics and KPI reporting . Track and report on key global metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of improvement initiatives and support the adoption and sustainability of new processes.
Assist in developing solid business cases for new initiatives, helping prepare executive presentations in alignment with overall AbbVie strategy.