Director, Innovation

AbbVie • North Chicago, IL

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

The Innovation group at AbbVie works directly with the executive team on critical short-term and long-term organizational issues, with their guidance directly impacting the company's future success. As a Director of Innovation, you will collaborate with leaders across AbbVie, leveraging your expertise in the biopharma industry to advance strategic agendas and support mission-critical initiatives that benefit patients. This role offers high-profile and high-impact development experiences for team members.

Requirements

• Bachelors or equivalent degree required.
• Minimum years of experience - 8+ with Bachelors, 6+ with Masters and 4+ with PHD
• Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization as a consultant to a pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.
• Demonstrated ability to present data and metrics to executive leadership teams that will lead to better business outcomes.
• Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.
• Proven performance in a matrix environment with ability to influence and align stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to interact externally and internally to support business strategy.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure that balanced risk assessments are made.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• This role requires at least three (3) days onsite in one of the respective AbbVie locations, North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead high profile initiatives in partnership with the AbbVie Commercial organization.
• Develop and deliver executive updates for business reviews and new findings.
• Develop cross-functional understanding of highest-priority commercial questions, identify the most critical issues, collaborate cross-functionally with commercial teams and other functions to develop solutions and provide strategic direction to ensure optimal outcomes.
• Translate strategic vision into tactical action, identify the highest impact ideas and plans, and focus efforts to work well across commercial priorities.
• Bring rigorous conceptual thinking to answer key commercial questions for AbbVie leveraging internal and external intelligence and resources as required.
• Monitor, understand, and prioritize market trends of relevance across TAs, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and respond.
• Executive-level discussions to influence complex business decisions and effectively collaborate cross-functionally to deliver business results.
• Partner with VP and executive level stakeholders, acting as a thought-partner on key business decisions that impact the current and future state of AbbVie.
• Exemplify AbbVie leadership principles and provide innovative, strategic, and evidence-based support to lead and create opportunity for innovation.
• Lead working teams on prioritized workstreams comprised on team members from Innovation and other commercial functions and drive towards solutions.
• Serve on Steering Committee member for commercial and cross-functional projects and provide guidance and the Innovation perspective in those forums as required, provide project management guidance for strategic planning processes for key projects.

Benefits

• paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k)
• long-term incentive programs
• bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director