Company Description

About AbbVie

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onLinkedIn,Facebook,Instagram,XandYouTube.

Job Description

The Innovation, Insights & Transformation (IIT) group partners closely with the AbbVie executive team to advance key strategic priorities across the organization. The work of this team plays a vital role in shaping AbbVie's continued growth and success.

As Associate Director, Innovation, you will partner with leaders across AbbVie to optimize the value of our portfolio of current and future assets. The team is seeking a high-performing individual who has demonstrated an interest and expertise in the biopharma industry and strong desire to advance our strategic agenda and support mission-critical initiatives that will make a difference for AbbVies patients.

Location & Travel:

• North Chicago, ILorSouth San Francisco, CA offices with a minimumthree (3) days onsite hybrid

• 25% travel required

Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end strategic innovation and execution on AbbVies highest priority commercial assets in partnership with the program-leading Asset Strategy Team and content-focused deliverable teams. Areas of focus include strategic planning, scenario evaluation, operational acceleration, and data-driven problem solving spanning the breadth of drug development (e.g. product development & manufacturing, trial design, evidence package evaluation, clinical operations).

• 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

• Bachelors or equivalent degree required. Advanced degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.

• Minimum years of experience required: 6+ with Bachelors, 4+ with Masters, and 2+ with Doctorate.

• Professional consulting experience within biotechnology and/or pharmaceuticalshighly 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 stakeholder 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 AbbVies overall mission.

• Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVies mission.