Director, Enterprise Strategy & Planning - APS

AbbVie•Mettawa, IL

About The Position

The Director, Enterprise Strategy & Planning serves as the enterprise strategy lead for AbbVie Patient Services (APS), sitting within the Enterprise Strategy & Future Capabilities team. Patient Services plays a critical role in helping ensure patients can access and stay on therapy through coordinated support, operational excellence, and cross‑functional alignment. With an increasing number of launches, patient support programs, and enterprise initiatives underway, this role provides strategic direction, operational leadership, and execution discipline to ensure APS priorities are clearly defined, well sequenced, and delivered with impact. This position leads the key strategic and financial business planning cycles to drive strong business performance and cross-team coordination, including the Financial Plan and LRP process and annual Strategic Plan. The role requires strong marketing acumen, including fluency in AbbVie’s 1‑7‑5 framework, enterprise positioning, and strategic narrative development to ensure APS priorities are aligned to brand, franchise, and enterprise strategies. The Director serves as a strategic partner to leadership, turning enterprise priorities into action, anticipating needs, and keeping work aligned across levels. A key skill in this role is being a strong connector and influencer — knowing who to engage, how to bring people together, and how to move things forward. This role also plays a key role in leading enterprise change management and transformation efforts across APS, ensuring new operating models, ways of working, and strategic initiatives are adopted effectively and delivered with sustained impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, strategy, healthcare administration, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, strategic operations, or business planning within pharma, biotech, or healthcare organizations.
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in complex, matrixed environments, influencing outcomes across senior leaders, teams, and functions without direct authority.
Track record of leading complex, high‑visibility enterprise initiatives and driving sustained adoption through change management and transformation.
Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to distill complexity into clear, succinct, and decision‑ready insights and materials.
Proven judgment, discretion, and ability to anticipate issues and manage competing priorities in fast‑paced environments.
Proven experience leading enterprise or business‑unit Long‑Range Planning (LRP), Annual Planning, and budget management, including investment prioritization and performance‑based decision making.
Strong marketing and strategic positioning experience, including working knowledge of AbbVie’s 1‑7‑5 framework and its application at enterprise and brand levels.
Demonstrated ability to leverage internal AI and digital tools to accelerate synthesis, improve decision readiness, and drive productivity across enterprise strategy, planning, and executive communications.

Responsibilities

Serve as the enterprise strategy lead for APS, owning enterprise-wide alignment across Therapeutic Business Units and Functions to ensure priorities are clearly understood, coordinated, and executed.
Lead APS enterprise strategy formation and execution, translating long‑range strategic imperatives into annual priorities, goals, and actionable plans while maintaining enterprise‑level visibility to track progress and inform course correction, and ensuring strategic initiatives translate into measurable operational effectiveness and efficiency.
Operate as a central connector across APS leadership, Therapeutic Business Units, and key enterprise partners (e.g., Finance, Brand, Global, Brand Excellence, Business Communications), working fluidly up, down, and across the organization to ensure strategy, planning, and execution remain tightly integrated.
Develop executive‑level presentations and decision‑ready materials for the Vice President, Patient Services and provides strategic counsel to set the agenda for staff and extended leadership meetings to ensure strategic initiatives and goal attainment are pulled through.
Own APS enterprise planning and financial cycles end‑to‑end, including LBE, Annual Planning, LRP, and Investment Allocation, ensuring disciplined prioritization, sequencing, and resource allocation aligned to strategic and performance objectives.
Lead the APS enterprise Investment Allocation process in partnership with Finance and APEX, owning enterprise‑level tradeoff discussions and delivering decision‑ready recommendations with clear options, risks, and implications for leadership while ensuring disciplined allocation of resources across TBUs and initiatives.
Apply AbbVie’s 1‑7‑5 marketing framework to enterprise strategy and planning, ensuring APS strategies, positioning, and investment decisions are grounded in clear intent and value creation.