Regional Marketing Manager, Immunology/Gastro - Great Lakes Region

Role Summary

The Immunology Regional Marketing Manager (RMM) will work closely with multiple AbbVie cross-functional teams to ensure collaboration, alignment, and successful development of area marketing strategy and execution. This field-based marketing role will be responsible for the development and optimization of national and regional marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with Annual Strategic Brand Plans. The RMM will act as the face of the AbbVie Marketing team with External Experts, developing, implementing, and maintaining interactions for insight generation within assigned geographies, and will work within a team-based environment to optimize brand performance across AbbVie Immunology. Field-based role; candidates should live within a reasonable distance from the primary city. Geography includes Cleveland, Detroit, and Philadelphia.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects compliantly and effectively through the promotional review process to deliver high-quality work in a timely fashion (meets deadlines). Ensure regulatory guidelines and AbbVie processes are followed
• Manage strategy, execution and budgeting for national and regional conventions, External Expert consulting, advisory boards, and commercial peer-to-peer education programming
• Continually apply knowledge and evaluate the effectiveness of key marketing tactics, making strategic recommendations to leadership on opportunities for brand optimization
• Provide in-depth insights based on the brand's key business questions to input on marketing strategy, resource optimization and tactic development that drives brand performance
• Lead partnerships with field leadership in assigned geography to optimize pull-through of marketing strategies
• Understand geographical area market drivers, competitive landscape, provider dynamics and competitive intelligence across the assigned geography
• Coordinate the direction and deliverables of multiple external vendors and internal departments including Agency Partners, Marketing functions, Market Research, Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, and IT

Thought Leader Engagement

• Identify, build, and strengthen commercial relationships with External Experts, emerging leaders, and relevant patient and professional associations within assigned geography
• Develop regional engagement plans for External Experts and ensure consistent tactical execution throughout the year to drive key marketing engagement
• Demonstrate in-depth understanding of external and internal drivers across multiple external stakeholder groups and appropriately connect AbbVie’s Integrated Brand Teams on opportunities for collaboration based on aligned objectives, in compliance with industry standards

Qualifications

Key Skills

• Mastery of verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills, live and virtual, to effectively engage internal leadership and external stakeholders
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with integrated, cross-functional teams by understanding priorities and influencing without direct authority to drive results
• Ability to navigate a field- and headquarter-based matrix organization to impact and drive decision making across functions to drive strategy and brand performance
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree

Additional Requirements

• Travel up to 75% of the time including evenings and weekends
• Valid driver’s license: Ability to pass a pre-employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment