Associate Director, Innovation

Role Summary

Associate Director, Innovation, partners with AbbVie leaders to optimize the value of the portfolio of current and future assets. The role seeks a candidate with demonstrated interest and expertise in the biopharma industry and a strong desire to advance our strategic agenda and support mission-critical initiatives that will make a difference for patients. The Enterprise Innovation group provides opportunities across the entire drug development and commercialization value chain. Location: North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA offices with a minimum three days onsite hybrid; 25% travel required.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end strategic innovation and execution on an AbbVie Enterprise Critical asset in partnership with the program-leading Asset Strategy Team and content-focused deliverable teams. Areas of focus include strategic planning, scenario evaluation, and data-driven problem solving spanning the breadth of drug development (e.g. product development & manufacturing, trial design, evidence package evaluation, clinical acceleration, commercial presentation).
• Drive end-to-end strategic innovation and execution across AbbVie's highest priority commercial questions in partnership with commercial leadership, brand teams and other cross-functional stakeholders. Areas of focus include strategic planning, commercial execution, and driving innovation on a breadth of enterprise-critical commercial efforts (e.g., launch planning, portfolio positioning, HCP engagement, patient activation, market access strategy).
• Support strategic initiatives that address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success.
• Lead individual modules within complex, cross-functional initiatives, including driving the problem-solving process supporting research and analytics, and distilling pragmatic recommendations for management consideration.
• Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond.
• Help communicate our strategy across AbbVie.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
• Minimum years of experience: 6+ with Bachelor's; 4+ with Master's; 2+ with Doctorate.
• Professional consulting experience highly preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills; can comfortably lead meetings with mid/senior-level management.
• Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment on a strategic vision and facilitate decision making on critical issues.
• Capability building / Change management skills – leverage empathy and coaching with functional stakeholders to achieve organizational buy-in and long-lasting changes.
• Highly collaborative, genuinely enjoys working hand-in-hand with the businesses to develop solutions that advance AbbVie’s overall mission.
• Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie’s mission.