MANAGEMENT

Vida Buckley, MD, Ph.D. Contract Coordinator & Pastor AbbVie Palatine, IL

MANAGEMENT

Vida Buckley is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Top Professional in the fields of Business Management and Ministry in acknowledgment for her distinguished roles as a Pastor at Restoration and Deliverance Ministry and a Contract Coordinator with AbbVie.

An Evangelist, Writer, Speaker, and Seminar Orator, Mrs. Buckley has led an impressive career of outstanding contributions. She has found success capturing hearts with such written works as “Broken Beyond Belief,” “I Feel Like Popcorn” and “That Ain’t Christian.” Compassionately, she writes self-help books from her very own life experiences in order to motivate others to move forward positively in their daily lives. The aforementioned works are available in paperback and Kindle edition for purchase on Amazon. In March 1997, she accepted the call into the ministry and was licensed and later ordained as a minister. She continues to dedicate herself to her community as a Pastor at Restoration and Deliverance Ministries.

In addition to her contributions to her community, Mrs. Buckley has flourished in contract coordination as a contract coordinator for AbbVie Inc., a highly focused research-driven biopharmaceutical company. At the company, she has held a number of positions including as a contract coordinator II and clinical project assistant. In her current role as a contract coordinator, Mrs. Buckley manages all inbound requests for contract processing, assigns contracts to appropriate attorneys for processing, advises clients of required tasks, reviews forms and validates all attachments, and operates as a liaison between clients and approvers when further approval or changes are required.

Throughout her professional career, Mrs. Buckley has demonstrated an innate ability to put in the hard work necessary to learn, produce, and stay on track with the work she is doing. Earlier in her career, she has gained valuable expertise in the field in varying positions with Manpower, ADECCO, and Kraft Foods, for which she served as a procurement coordinator, an administrator of dairy procurement, and an administrative assistant. Furthering her knowledge in the field, Ms. Buckley obtained a certification in business administration and management from Robert Morris University in Carthage, Illinois.

In light of her professional achievements, Mrs. Buckley has been honored numerous times, accepting Excellence Awards in 2009 and 2010. She was additionally presented with the Above and Beyond Award from Kraft Foods. She proudly attributes her success to God, but also a lot of her success to the development and mentorship she received while working at Kraft Foods, Inc.

Ms. Buckley is a wife and mother.