Area Marketing Manager, Neuroscience (Parkinsons) West Region

AbbVie•Los Angeles, CA

About The Position

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.This role is field-based, and candidates should live within a reasonable distance to the geography. The geography includes the following states and we are open to hiring candidates who live in the following areas:CaliforniaWashingtonNevadaArizonaThe Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager 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 optimization of national and regional marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with Annual Strategic Brand Plans.The Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager will act as the face of the AbbVie Marketing team with our External Experts, developing, implementing, and maintaining interactions for the purpose of insight generation within assigned geographies. Additionally, the Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager works within a team-based environment to optimize brand performance across AbbVie Neurology.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
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 working environment with integrated, cross-functional teams by understanding priorities, key responsibilities and influencing without direct authority to drive results
Ability to navigate a field and headquarter based matrix organization, to impact and/or 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
Travel up to 50%-75% of the time including evenings and weekends

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in sales, sales management, or marketing with at least 2 years of experience in Neurology (preferred)

Responsibilities

Lead projects compliantly and effectively through the promotional review process to deliver high-quality work in a timely fashion (meets deadlines). Ensures that 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 applies knowledge and evaluates the effectiveness of key marketing tactics, making strategic recommendations to leadership on opportunities for brand optimization
Ability to provide in-depth insights based on the brands key business questions to provide 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
Responsible for understanding a geographical area's 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
Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment
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 connecting AbbVie's Integrated Brand Teams on opportunities for collaboration based on aligned objectives, in compliance with industry standards