Associate Director, Business Excellence Portfolio Strategy Aesthetics
About The Position
The Associate Director of Business Excellence Portfolio Strategy partners with leaders across AbbVie to optimize the value of the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio and its current and future assets. The role works with the Aesthetics R&D executive team on pressing short- and long-term issues and supports strategic priorities and mission-critical assets and initiatives. The position is part of the Business Excellence Strategy group within Global Portfolio Strategy & Operations and is based in Irvine, California, with onsite work Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to translate strategic vision into tactical action, and the ability to focus efforts on the highest-impact ideas. The Associate Director collaborates across functions, generates and communicates strategic insights, leads complex project work, supports executive decision-making, and communicates strategy at executive forums. The work spans strategic planning, scenario evaluation, portfolio and asset strategy, competitive intelligence, pipeline performance measurement, and responses to external trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
- Minimum experience: 5+ years with a bachelor's degree, 3+ years with a master's degree, or 2+ years with a PhD.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication skills and comfort leading meetings with senior-level management.
- Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
- Ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment on a strategic vision and facilitate decisions on critical issues.
- Capability-building and change-management skills, including using empathy and coaching with functional stakeholders to achieve organizational buy-in and lasting change.
- Highly collaborative approach and genuine interest in working with functions and businesses to develop solutions advancing AbbVie's mission.
- Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie's mission.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree such as PharmD, PhD, MD, or MBA.
- Two or more years at a top-tier management consulting company.
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end strategic innovation, communication, and execution for the Allergan Aesthetics portfolio and assets in partnership with R&D and Commercial Leadership Teams.
- Support strategic planning, scenario evaluation, and data-driven problem solving across drug and aesthetic medical device development.
- Support R&D strategy processes, including annual franchise strategy reviews and Strategy Long Range Plans, Therapeutic Area strategy and pipeline reviews, and high-priority Asset Strategy Team work.
- Manage projects and generate and communicate strategic insights to leaders and franchise and asset strategy teams.
- Lead or support strategic initiatives addressing mission-critical questions and positioning AbbVie for future success.
- Conduct R&D competitive intelligence initiatives, including evidence-based competitive assessments, ELT scientific communications, and ongoing monitoring of competitor pipeline, scientific communications, and commercial activities.
- Provide strategic decision support for key pipeline assets in partnership with Asset Strategy Leaders and Project & Portfolio Management, including governance deck development, pressure-testing business cases, and milestone storytelling from pre-concept through pivotal trial design.
- Develop and operationalize R&D pipeline metrics and KPIs for enterprise reporting, potentially including data collection, stakeholder alignment, and dashboard or visualization design.
- Conduct structured competitive benchmarking across franchises and synthesize external best practices and internal data into actionable recommendations for R&D leadership.
- Provide rapid-response support to R&D leadership on high-importance or high-visibility priorities.
- Lead individual modules within complex cross-functional initiatives, drive problem-solving and research and analytics, and distill pragmatic recommendations for management consideration.
- Help communicate AbbVie's strategy at executive forums.
- Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends relevant to the enterprise and help determine how AbbVie should prepare or respond.
Benefits
- Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and sick time.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible employees.
- 401(k) for eligible employees.
- Eligibility to participate in long-term incentive programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
