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
The Director / Chief of Staff will help drive commercial strategy and business operations projects across the Immunology US Therapeutics Unit (1MM), that includes Dermatology, Rheumatology and Gastroenterology.
+ Strategic Excellence
+ Lead key commercial on-market strategic initiatives that capture additional value in short term (12-24 months) across franchises as well as launch readiness for late-stage assets.
+ Lead key strategic initiatives across 1MM Team that identifies longer-term growth (e.g., Strategy LRP, BD assessment, Roadmap and Brand planning)
+ Operational Effectiveness / Chief of Staff to SVP of the BU
+ Executing opportunities to drive operational effectiveness within and across business units with key cross-functional partners, e.g., Finance and HR
+ Facilitate effective and collaborative cross-functional engagements to optimize AbbVie capabilities, e.g., with Integrated Brand Teams, Customer Experience, Medical, Compliance HEOR, Business Technology Solutions, etc.
+ Lead development of business and operational reviews to senior Commercial and Executive leadership
The Director / Chief of Staff will report and work closely with the SVP 1MM and cross-functional stakeholders to identify and develop strategic and operational opportunities. In this position, you will prepare key commercial meetings and deliverables. Define processes and align contents (e.g., CSM, BR, ELT, LRP, PLN) and lead cross TA ad-hoc projects with each franchise brand teams, Finance, Medical, R&D, Market Access, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Market Analytics and Business Insights (MABI), Sales Training, Sales Force Effectiveness, Regulatory, Customer Experience, and other cross franchise teams to gain input into developing strategic and operational projects.
The Director must demonstrate the ability to lead without authority, while building a collaborative, integrated approach across the organization.
Important skills for this role required are outstanding problem-solving mind-set, strong communication skills (oral and written), top presentation/ppt skills, interpersonal skills, flexibility, prioritization, and sense of urgency.
This position will support data analytical execution, creating strong narratives on insights and communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership as well as provide operational support to the SVP of 1MM BU, as his Chief of Staff
Qualifications
Education and experience:
+ BA/BS required, MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD) preferred.
+ At least 5-10 years of professional industry experience with a successful track record in management consulting (at least 2+ years), pipeline management, or pharmaceutical marketing with strong analytical and strategic marketing skills.
+ Previous experience in pharma R&D, Corporate Strategy, Brand Management, and/or Marketing
+ Understanding and/or experience with Immunology products both inline and in development.
+ Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organization levels and disciplines, including senior executives.
Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies
+ Strong problem solving and strategic skills as well as demonstrated learning agility.
+ Strong ability to communicate ideas & make the complex easy for others to understand.
+ Good financial acumen with an understanding of P&L drivers
+ Self-starter, and proactively driving projects toward successful completion.
+ Experience with matrix-based teams and project management.
+ Works collaboratively and proactively, maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills, demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy.
+ Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functional partners outside of immediate team.
+ Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy.
+ Self-starter, learns fast, quickly grasps the essence of concepts, can change course rapidly where required, demonstrates intellectual curiosity.
+ Executes highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners and is visibly inclusive and transparent.
+ Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
+ Experience working with pre-launch, launch, &/or on-market commercial teams preferred.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS: For this role, we’re looking for a leader who is:
+ Excellence Focused; Optimistic; Open and Authentic
Additional Information
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+ 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.
AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. US & Puerto Rico only – to learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html
