Associate Director, Global AI Forecasting at AbbVie · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

Lead the operation and maintenance of AI/ML forecasting models, ensuring their ongoing accuracy, reliability, performance, and fitness for use in commercial forecasting.
Ensure model outputs are delivered on schedule to support financial planning cycles and downstream business deadlines.
Define and maintain standards for developing new forecasting models, including data requirements, feature engineering, model selection, validation, documentation, integration, and handoff.
Partner with forecasters, brand teams, finance leaders, and technology teams to understand business dynamics, curate inputs, determine when model changes are warranted, and integrate approved changes into operational workflows.
Translate complex or counterintuitive model results into clear, well-supported business explanations that help leaders understand and confidently use model outputs.
Identify and prioritize the brands and geographies where AI-enabled forecasting can create the greatest value, balancing quality, scalability, and delivery timelines across concurrent workstreams.
Serve as a technical leader for AI/ML methods applied to commercial forecasting, evaluating emerging approaches, including large language models and generative AI, for responsible business use.
Contribute technical expertise to model governance, including documentation standards, validation protocols, monitoring, review processes, and responsible-use guidelines.
Lead, coach, and develop a team of forecasting data science professionals, setting priorities, allocating work, providing feedback, and building technical capability as the modeling portfolio grows.
Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics (advanced degree strongly preferred).
7+ years of progressive experience in quantitative or analytical roles, with demonstrated depth in machine learning model development, validation, deployment, and ongoing operation.
Expert-level proficiency in machine learning, including time-series forecasting, supervised learning, ensemble methods, and model performance evaluation.

Associate Director, Global AI Forecasting

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Benefits

Company

AbbVie

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