Principal AI and Data Science Lead

AsData Science and AI Leadoverseeing Platform, Governance, and Delivery for Data Scienceand AI solutionsat AbbVie, you will lead a diverse team of data scientists responsible for designing, executing, and scaling data science solutions across the enterprise. Reporting into Operations Business Insights (OBI), you will establish and execute the vision and roadmap for a robust, agile, and compliant data science platform, ensuring strong governance practices and operational excellence in delivering impactfuldata scienceto drive innovation, performance, and agilitycompany wide.

Leading a multifaceted team, you will have end-to-end accountability for platform strategy, stakeholder engagement, project delivery, and talent development. You will be expected to set the standard for technical and consulting excellence, foster a culture of continuous learning, and promote effective collaboration within and outside your group, including functional data scientists, business partners, academic collaborators, and technology leaders., Provide leadership in developing, maintaining, and governing the data science platform to enable secure, scalable, and compliant analytics throughout AbbVies global operations, spanning Supply Chain, Quality, Procurement, Manufacturing, and Science & Technology.

Oversee the delivery lifecycle from requirements discovery, solution design, and modeling through deployment and monitoring of productionized data science applications, studies, and proofs of concept by leading teams of diverse data scientists and analysts.

Lead and champion best practices in data governance, stewardship, and quality, ensuring compliance with regulatory and organizational standards (e.g., GxP, master data management, data lineage, model validation, etc.).

Push forward withsemantic engineering and agentic engineering, best practices and capability delivery to support more advanced AI use cases.Oversee architectsinvolvedin semantic and agentic engineering and solutioning.

Develop and promote advanced analytics capability, including supervised/unsupervised machine learning, deep learning, AI/ML platform services, and the enablement of novel AI applications such as RAG and semantic layering for human-in-the-loop systems.

Foster strategic partnerships with senior functional leaders, technology stakeholders, and external collaborators to accelerate the transfer of advanced methods into high-value business solutions.

Collaborate on group strategy and roadmap, enable cross-functional GenAI initiatives, and serve as a thought leader for education, awareness, and innovation in enterprise data science.

Ensure robust consulting, communication, and change management plans are in place to drive adoption of data science solutions at all organizational levels, including executive leadership.

Mentor, coach, and develop a diverse team, building a pipeline of talent that can take on increasingly complex projects and lead education initiatives (journal clubs, technical upskilling, peer review, etc.).

• Bachelor's Degree with 9 years experience; Master's Degree with 8 years experience; PhD with 4 years experience.
• Significant experienceleading multi-disciplinary teams delivering enterprise-scale data science platforms and applications, preferably in regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, life sciences, or healthcare operations.
• Deepexpertisein data science methods (ML, AI, statistics), modern data engineering (cloud, big data, pipeline orchestration), and business analytics, with mastery of tools such as Python, R, Dataiku, AWS SageMaker, Spark, Tableau, etc.
• Demonstratedability to define and execute governance frameworks for data quality, master data, model lifecycle management, and regulatory compliance.
• Extensive consulting and stakeholder management experience, including effective communication of complex technical solutions to executive audiences and cross-functional business partners.
• Proven ability to drive innovation (strategy, whitepapers, roadmaps), develop cross-functional partnerships, and lead technology transfer initiatives to embed analytics into core business processes.
• Experience mentoring and growing diverse teams, with a focus on inclusion, equity, and continuous learning.
• Self-driven, highly adaptable, and able to quickly master new domains and tools in response to emerging business or technology trends.

Preferred:

• Experience delivering data science solutions in industry (non-academic settings strongly preferred), withdemonstratedprogression in leadership roles.
• Experience with data-driven transformation in Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, or Central Operations within a large pharmaceutical or life sciences organization, anddeepunderstanding ofGxPpractices.
• Background in technology innovation,MLOps, platform architecture, or boutique/strategy consulting with measurable stakeholder impact.

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this postingbased on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore orless than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission,incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paidandmay bemodifiedat the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable 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.