The Associate Director of AI Strategy and Operations will be a critical leader that helps develop, champion and execute on AbbVie’s enterprise AI strategy, governance, and priority AI use cases across functions, including drug discovery, clinical development, operations, and commercial. This role serves as a strategic thought partner that develops the enterprise AI strategy, supports prioritized AI initiatives, plays a key role in coordinating external advisory board, and driving operational excellence in line with business objectives and patient impact.

Key Responsibilities:

• Enterprise AI Strategy: Support development and execution of enterprise AI strategy, partnering with the Director to ensure alignment with AbbVie’s business objectives.
•  Functional and Business Unit AI Strategies: Support functional and business unit leaders in developing and continually refreshing their AI strategies, incorporating the latest innovations in AI and identifying opportunities where AI can help accelerate strategic business priorities.
•  External AI Advisory Board: Oversee AbbVie’s external AI advisory board, coordinating across functions and BUs to collate key topics and questions for advisory board meetings, gathering key insights to be applied throughout enterprise and functional/BU AI strategies.
•  Deep AI Expertise: Apply expertise in Machine Learning, Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Physical AI to contribute to innovative solutions for biopharma applications.
•  Operational Excellence: Assist in establishment and execution of operational frameworks and governance, ensuring cross-functional communication and integration across business units
•  Measurement and reporting: Monitor, analyze, and report on the progress and impact of AI initiatives.
• Support cross-cutting enablers: Provide thought leadership and support in crosscutting capabilities including but not limited to technology enablement, responsible AI, and data readiness.

This role requires at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office.