Principal Business Systems Consultant - AI Platforms

Company Description

Abb Vie'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 immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

As part of Abb Vie's Business Technology Solutions (BTS) team, R&D Global Therapeutics is dedicated to building and deploying scalable, business-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications and Platforms. We are seeking an innovative and highly skilled Principal Business Systems Consultant, AI Platforms, to lead the strategy and execution of automation initiatives, with an emphasis on AI document generation solutions.

In this role, you will guide the evolution of Abb Vie's AI platforms by collaborating closely with data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders to design, validate, and operationalize impactful AI use cases. You will be responsible for gathering, analyzing, and prioritizing business and technical requirements to accelerate delivery of Generative AI solutions that address key business challenges. Key responsibilities include shaping and managing the use case backlog, translating requirements into actionable development plans, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality, market-relevant platform features.

Your leadership will drive AI adoption, enhance operational efficiency, and accelerate innovation across R&D Global Therapeutics.

• Works with senior business unit clients to understand specific business processes, business drivers, and business strategy across multiple functions; personally, or through indirect team management identifies, prioritizes and communicates resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via technology; uses technical consulting skills and expertise to translate business requirements to BTS and functional requirements to the domain.
• Proactively investigates and understands capabilities of existing systems and technologies already in use across the business area and similar and interconnected business areas in Abb Vie; investigates emerging internal and external technologies and actively connects these capabilities to proactively address business needs. Directly interacts with Functional Sr Directors/Directors and their senior staff.
• Defines needed human and technology capabilities contributing to and helping to build necessary training. Mentors, identifies, communicates, and actively participates in opportunities to improve process and/or technology. These may include business process outsourcing, application development or adopting business process management (BPM) practices.
• Accountable for the creation and further refinement of project requirements and for BTO Demand initiation and coordination. Anticipates risks project/program risks, defines mitigation plans and works with teams to implement. Working with business partners and BTO management, responsible for resolving changes to scope, issues and risks that will affect multiple and/or large-scale projects/programs.
• Simultaneously considers objectives of multiple functions. Measures performance to ensure the project is progressing as compared to original plan and budget. Accountable for the accuracy of the fit of the proposed business process improvements and the technical solution to the business needs and the information upon which the business justification and prioritization decisions are made. Understands and executes Abb Vie's vision, goals and strategies and uses this understanding to broker services.
• As an individual contributor adeptly navigate cross-functional and highly matrixed teams through indirect authority. Has defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects, and delegates assignments across multiple and/or large-scale projects/programs. Accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and project teams.
• Anticipates and responds to current and emerging business needs and evaluates alternative IT solutions using standard information systems methodologies and best practices. Determines necessary resources to ensure program and business needs are addressed through proactive priority management with business leaders. Manages, motivates and mentors cross-functional and enterprise project teams. Works with governance bodies to ensure alignment.
• Proactively seeks out strategic business opportunities for the application of new or existing IT capabilities (across multiple business areas) with high-level business unit executives providing key opinion-leading clients with comprehensive strategic analyses and insights to help them discover strategic…