Associate Director, Oncology Marketing

at AbbVie in Mettawa, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

This position is based in Mettawa, IL and will require 3 days per week in the office.

The Associate Director, US Oncology, VENCLEXTA will serve as the leader and subject matter expert for the Brand Team to support market strategy and execution of VENCLEXTA in CLL. The Associate Director will lead a team of Marketing Managers and will be responsible for strategic planning and delivering many marketing initiatives from strategic development to full tactical roll-out including appropriate approval process. Internally, the Associate Director will foster positive working relationships with the sales force, medical affairs, market research, sales training, regulatory, and other cross-functional marketing teams. Externally, they will work with various agencies, consultants, physicians, and other marketing partners to successfully drive the business. The candidate must be able to operate in a fast-paced organization, with high expectations and accountability on quality of deliverables in partnership with internal and external stakeholders to achieve financial objectives. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced marketer seeking to join a high performing team committed to making a difference for patients in the heme space.

Key responsibilities include:

+ Responsible for developing and managing designated marketing activities for an on-market brand in the US oncology organization.

+ Work in a team-based environment assisting in the development of strategies and leading implementation of tactics to maximize sales, market share and profitability.

+ Lead, inspire and develop a team of Marketing Managers to become a high-performance brand team.

+ Lead development and execution of multiple marketing projects in a timely manner.

+ Responsible for working closely with medical affairs, market access, market research, sales, and HEOR to ensure execution of one vision for the brand commercially

+ Understand trends in the oncology marketplace using patient and data driven strategic insights to apply on an on-going basis to the marketing plan.

+ Lead or support the development of the strategic business plan and the organization and synthesis of the tactical plan, including appropriate representation of all stakeholders.

+ Manage strategy and project development of tactics that drive consideration of preferred use of AbbVie oncology products within approved indications.

+ Evaluate the effectiveness of strategies and tactics through measurement and metrics development to ensure positive return on investment and achievement of brand objectives.

+ Work with internal and external cross-functional groups (Legal, Regulatory, Medical, Project Management, Sales Training, Consumer Marketing, Market Analytics and Business Insights) and external (Ad Agency, Digital Agency) to insure integration and consistency of professional business strategies and regulatory compliance of promotional materials.

+ Master and be responsible for all core marketing responsibilities and business processes.

+ Manage P&L responsibilities for brand related to preparation of and management of annual brand budget.

+ Communicate up, down, and laterally in an effective manner.

+ Direct reporting relationship to the Director, US Oncology, CLL Marketing

Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree

+ 3+ years in oncology or 5+ years marketing experience (US Market)

+ Exposure/understanding on commercial operations for a brand across channels like US market access, sales and marketing

+ Robust understanding of Personal and Non-Personal promotion and omnichannel execution

+ Strategic thinking with experience contributing to cross-functional team leadership, and brand planning

+ Prior people management experience with track record of growing team/people

+ Strong planning and organization skills.

+ Successful record of accomplishment of people leadership (both with and without formal authority).

+ Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively cross-functionally.

+ Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Desired Qualifications:

+ Experience in oncology products

+ Experience managing marketing teams

+ Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products

+ Experience working with and managing multiple external agencies including advertising, digital, external, and internal partners.

+ Demonstrated understanding of principles of market research to draw valid conclusions.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ?

+ The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.?

+ We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ?

+ This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs?

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ?

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