Associate Director, Innovation
AbbVie
August 09, 2026
Remote friendly (South San Francisco, CA)
United States
$141,500 - $268,500 USD yearly
Other
Location & Travel:
- North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA offices with a minimum three (3) days onsite hybrid
- 25% travel required
Responsibilities:
- Drive end-to-end strategic innovation and execution on AbbVie’s highest priority commercial assets, partnering with the Asset Strategy Team and deliverable teams across strategic planning, scenario evaluation, operational acceleration, and data-driven problem solving spanning drug development.
- Support mission-critical strategic initiatives that position AbbVie for future success.
- Lead individual modules within complex cross-functional initiatives, driving problem solving, research/analytics, and pragmatic recommendations for management.
- Monitor, understand, and prioritize relevant external enterprise trends and determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond.
- Help communicate strategy across AbbVie.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent required; advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
- Experience: 6+ years with Bachelor’s, 4+ with Master’s, 2+ with Doctorate.
- Professional consulting experience within biotechnology and/or pharmaceuticals highly preferred.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills; comfortable leading meetings with mid/senior-level management.
- Experience managing large projects in a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization (external consultant or internal cross-functional lead).
- Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment and facilitate decision-making.
- Capability building / change management skills; empathy and coaching to achieve buy-in.
- Highly collaborative; enjoys working with business teams to develop solutions.
Benefits (explicitly stated):
- Paid time off; medical/dental/vision insurance; 401(k); eligibility for short-term and long-term incentive programs.
- North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA offices with a minimum three (3) days onsite hybrid
- 25% travel required
Responsibilities:
- Drive end-to-end strategic innovation and execution on AbbVie’s highest priority commercial assets, partnering with the Asset Strategy Team and deliverable teams across strategic planning, scenario evaluation, operational acceleration, and data-driven problem solving spanning drug development.
- Support mission-critical strategic initiatives that position AbbVie for future success.
- Lead individual modules within complex cross-functional initiatives, driving problem solving, research/analytics, and pragmatic recommendations for management.
- Monitor, understand, and prioritize relevant external enterprise trends and determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond.
- Help communicate strategy across AbbVie.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent required; advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
- Experience: 6+ years with Bachelor’s, 4+ with Master’s, 2+ with Doctorate.
- Professional consulting experience within biotechnology and/or pharmaceuticals highly preferred.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills; comfortable leading meetings with mid/senior-level management.
- Experience managing large projects in a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization (external consultant or internal cross-functional lead).
- Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment and facilitate decision-making.
- Capability building / change management skills; empathy and coaching to achieve buy-in.
- Highly collaborative; enjoys working with business teams to develop solutions.
Benefits (explicitly stated):
- Paid time off; medical/dental/vision insurance; 401(k); eligibility for short-term and long-term incentive programs.