Senior Director Engineering Strategy, Front-End Planning, and Engineering Standards

## Company Description **About AbbVie** AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions 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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at [www.abbvie.com](http://www.abbvie.com/). Follow @abbvie on [LinkedIn,](https://www.linkedin.com/company/abbvie/) [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/AbbVieGlobal/), [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/abbvie/), [X](https://twitter.com/abbvie) and [YouTube.](https://www.youtube.com/user/AbbVie) ## Job Description **Position Summary** The Senior Director, Engineering Strategy, Front End Planning, and Standards Governance provides enterprise leadership for early-stage capital planning, engineering standards oversight, and long-range technical strategy. This role is responsible for shaping and governing the engineering framework that enables safe, compliant, cost-effective, and sustainable execution of AbbVie’s capital and operational priorities. The Senior Director leads cross-functional collaboration to ensure front end planning is rigorous, engineering standards and SOPs are current and effectively governed, and strategic long-range plans align with business growth, network needs, and operational excellence objectives. **Key Responsibilities:** **Front End Planning:** - Lead front end planning activities for capital and strategic projects, ensuring scope definition, feasibility assessment, basis of design development, and risk identification are completed with rigor. - Partner with business, operations, quality, EHS, validation, supply chain, and finance stakeholders to translate business needs into executable engineering plans. - Ensure project concepts are evaluated for technical feasibility, cost, schedule, capacity, sustainability, and lifecycle performance. - Establish and maintain standard methods for front end loading, project definition, and investment justification. **Engineering Standards and SOPs Governance:** - Own governance for engineering standards, specifications, and SOPs across the assigned scope. - Ensure engineering standards and procedures are current, compliant with regulatory and corporate requirements, and consistently applied across sites and programs. - Lead periodic review, approval, revision, and retirement of standards and SOPs. - Promote standardization, operational consistency, and right-first-time execution through clear governance and stakeholder engagement. - Serve as a subject matter leader for engineering best practices, design standards, and procedural compliance. **Strategic Long Range Planning:** - Develop and maintain long-range engineering plans aligned with AbbVie’s business strategy, manufacturing network strategy, and capital priorities. - Identify infrastructure, capacity, technology, and utility needs over a multi-year horizon. - Lead scenario planning, gap analysis, and strategic recommendations to support future site and network requirements. - Partner with senior leaders to anticipate future investments and enable sustainable business growth. - Translate long-range planning outputs into actionable roadmaps, governance reviews, and capital planning inputs. **Leadership and Cross-Functional Influence** - Provide strategic leadership to engineering teams and matrixed stakeholders across functions and sites. - Build strong partnerships with Operations, Quality, EHS, Technical Operations, Procurement, IT, and Finance. - Drive alignment on priorities, standards, and resource allocation across multiple initiatives. - Coach and develop team members and ensure strong succession and talent development within the engineering organization. **Compliance, Quality, and Risk Management:** - Ensure all activities are conducted in acco…