Associate Director - Cybersecurity Posture, Hygiene and AI

Our Business Technology Solutions (BTS) team shapes the digital transformation accelerating the future of medicine at AbbVie , and we do it together, asking bold questions and tackling complex challenges through deep, honest collaboration. In the role of Associate Director, Cybersecurity Posture, Hygiene and AI, you will join a diverse, global organization that invests in your growth while empowering you to lead teams that secure the technologies improving patients’ lives. Role summary This role builds and leads an enterprise security posture and hygiene program with a specific emphasis on configuration drift technologies and services. You are a people manager, accountable for setting direction, developing talent, and delivering sustained program outcomes. You will define the strategy, operating model, metrics, and governance needed to continuously improve control effectiveness across on‑premise and cloud environments and ensure AI-enabled workflows operate within enterprise security, privacy, and data protection expectations by detecting misuse, configuration drift, and control gaps. About our team You will join the Business Technology Solutions (BTS) Information Security and Risk Management (ISRM) organization. Our team focuses on reducing systemic risk by strengthening baseline security controls, improving configuration hygiene, and building scalable programs that enable safe adoption of modern and AI-enabled technologies across the enterprise. In this role, you will be responsible for Building and leading a security posture and hygiene program, including strategy, roadmap, operating cadence, governance, and direct people management. Managing and developing a multidisciplinary team responsible for control assessments, configuration hygiene, remediation planning, and continuous improvement, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development. Leveraging AI as an accelerator and enabler to drive speed and efficiency in continuous control moni