AbbVie'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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
Job Description
The Director, Immunology Strategy of the Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO) is responsible for building and leading teams that integrate expertise across Discovery, Development, Commercial, Corporate Business & Strategy, and other key functions to drive a variety of initiatives that include creating and executing long range TA strategies, addressing key above brand strategy questions, and integrating internal and external opportunity evaluations.
Achieving these goals requires a combination of excellent collaborative skills to enable stakeholder management and alignment, broad strategic thinking, and an ability to drive complex analyses using a wide variety of data and insights to synthesize into actionable strategic outputs.
Responsibilities:
Builds and leads a range of cross-functional teams to drive TA and CBSO priorities
Fosters end-to-end innovation on enterprise-critical topics and projects through collaboration with Therapeutic Area Strategy Council (TASC), and other senior R&D and commercial focused leadership teams (including Asset Strategy Teams (AST) and early Brand Strategy Teams)
Support TA strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success
Serves as strategic partner to R&D and Commercial leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and workstreams
Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or response
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Help communicate and execute TA strategies across AbbVie
As appropriate, facilitate identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies and new clinical endpoints (e.g., digital or imaging tools, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, devices, and other platform technologies) that can be employed to improve or accelerate key strategic priorities
In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes
Minimum Years of Experience – 8+ with Bachelors, 6+ with Masters, 4+ with PhD/Doctorate
Corporate or TA strategy, R&D, commercial, business development, or related experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with a track record of expertise in one or more therapeutic areas
Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional, global team environment
Proven performance in a matrix environment, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders
Ability to operate independently and take ownership of projects to structure and drive complex plans in ambiguous situations
Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively both internally and externally to support business strategy
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and make balanced risk assessments
Essential Skills and Competencies:
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas clearly and make complex topics easy for others to understand
Good financial acumen, with an understanding of P&L drivers
Self-starter who learns quickly, demonstrates intellectual curiosity, and proactively drives projects to successful completion
Strong planning, coordination, project management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve conflict diplomatically
Ability to build strong relationships with peers and cross-functional partners outside the immediate team
Strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy
Ability to execute highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners in an inclusive and transparent manner
Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
Experience working with pre-launch, launch, and/or on-market commercial teams preferred
This position is a hybrid opportunity requiring at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office location.
Additional Information
Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:
- The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
- We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
- This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
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