Associate Director, Innovation

Role Summary

Associate Director, Innovation will partner with AbbVie leaders to optimize the value of our portfolio of current and future assets. The role targets a high-performing individual with biopharma expertise who can advance our strategic agenda and support mission-critical initiatives benefiting patients. The Enterprise Innovation group provides high-profile, high-impact projects spanning the drug development and commercialization value chain. Location: North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA; hybrid with at least three days on-site; travel ~25%.

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.

Education

• Required: Bachelor's degree or equivalent. Preferred: Advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA).

Qualifications

• Required: Minimum years of experience: 6+ with Bachelors, 4+ with Masters, and 2+ with Doctorate.
• Preferred: Professional consulting experience.
• Required: Strong problem-solving skills.
• Required: Strong communication skills. Ability to lead meetings with mid/senior-level management.
• Required: Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment on a strategic vision and facilitate decision making on critical issues.
• Required: Capability building / Change management skills – leverage empathy and coaching with functional stakeholder to achieve organizational buy-in and long-lasting changes.
• Required: Highly collaborative, genuinely enjoys working hand-in-hand with the businesses to develop solutions that advance AbbVie’s overall mission.
• Required: Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie’s mission.