Associate Director, Global Business Development Forecasting

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

14h•$141,500 - $268,500

About The Position

Business Development is a critical pillar of AbbVie’s future growth, and Global Business Development Forecasting helps assess which external opportunities can create the greatest long-term value. The team combines commercial insight, analytical rigor, and strategic clarity to translate scientific, market, competitive, and uncertain information into actionable forecasts. The Associate Director leads forecasts and commercial perspectives that shape executive understanding of opportunity value, risk, and strategic fit. Working across R&D, Commercial, Pipeline Commercial Strategy, CBSO, BD Finance, and other partners, the role supports decisions that influence AbbVie’s future portfolio. Success requires forecasting and commercial analytics expertise, rigorous assumption development, clear executive communication, and the ability to influence across a matrixed organization. The position reports to the Director, Global Business Development Forecasting.

Requirements

At least 7 years of relevant forecasting, market analytics, finance, or life sciences consulting experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or related industries.
Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or business.
Experience building forecast models in Excel and forecasting platforms such as IQVIA Forecast Horizon.
Ability to develop and/or use patient-flow modeling approaches, craft robust assumptions, and prepare evidence-based forecast inputs using epidemiology, secondary data, market research, treatment dynamics, competitive profiles, and expert input.
Familiarity with key data sources used to substantiate forecast recommendations and ability to document forecast assumption logic and rationale clearly.
Strong executive communication skills, including tailoring messages to audiences, translating quantitative analyses into recommendations and decision options, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority.
Strong project management skills in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, including prioritizing multiple workstreams, communicating trade-offs, escalating risks, and delivering high-quality work under time pressure.

Nice To Haves

MBA or another advanced degree.
Familiarity with using and crafting Target Product Profiles (TPPs), establishing and aligning analytical business rules and market definitions, and leveraging claims data analytics.
Experience supporting strategic decision-making in specialized therapeutic areas such as Neuroscience, Immunology, Oncology, or other complex markets.

Responsibilities

Lead commercial forecasting, market assessments, scenario analyses, and commercial P&Ls for business development opportunities, balancing analytical rigor with timely decision support.
Develop patient-based forecast models, pressure-test assumptions, and use primary research, secondary data, epidemiology, competitive intelligence, market access input, and expert perspectives to build a supported commercial view.
Partner across business development, Pipeline Commercial Strategy, finance, market access, epidemiology, marketing analytics, and senior leadership to align assumptions, clarify risks and opportunities, and incorporate commercial perspectives into deal valuation and governance discussions.
Translate complex analyses into recommendations, executive-ready narratives, and decision options for senior leaders and governance forums, facilitating discussion of uncertainty, trade-offs, and strategic implications.
Advance business development forecasting capabilities by sharing best practices, improving tools and processes, and helping create faster, more consistent, and audit-ready ways of working.