Director, Neuroscience Strategy - Corporate Business Strategy Office

AbbVie•North Chicago, IL

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Neuroscience Strategy of the Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO) is responsible for building and leading teams that integrate expertise across Discovery, Development, Commercial, Corporate Business & Strategy, and other key functions to drive a variety of initiatives that include creating and executing long range TA strategies, addressing key above brand strategy questions, and integrating internal and external opportunity evaluations. Achieving these goals requires a combination of excellent collaborative skills to enable stakeholder management and alignment, broad strategic thinking, and an ability to drive complex analyses using a wide variety of data and insights to synthesize into actionable strategic outputs.

Requirements

Bachelors or equivalent degree required.
Advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
Minimum Years of Experience – 8+ with Bachelors, 6+ with Masters, 4+ with PhD/Doctorate
Corporate or TA strategy, R&D, commercial, business development, or related experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with a track record of expertise in one or more therapeutic areas
Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional, global team environment
Proven performance in a matrix environment, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders
Ability to operate independently and take ownership of projects to structure and drive complex plans in ambiguous situations
Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively both internally and externally to support business strategy
Strong analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives and make balanced risk assessments
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate ideas clearly and make complex topics easy for others to understand
Good financial acumen, with an understanding of P&L drivers
Self-starter who learns quickly, demonstrates intellectual curiosity, and proactively drives projects to successful completion
Strong planning, coordination, project management, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to resolve conflict diplomatically
Ability to build strong relationships with peers and cross-functional partners outside the immediate team
Strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy
Ability to execute highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners in an inclusive and transparent manner
Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel

Nice To Haves

Experience working with pre-launch, launch, and/or on-market commercial teams preferred

Responsibilities

Builds and leads a range of cross-functional teams to drive TA and CBSO priorities
Fosters end-to-end innovation on enterprise-critical topics and projects through collaboration with Therapeutic Area Strategy Council (TASC), and other senior R&D and commercial focused leadership teams (including Asset Strategy Teams (AST) and early Brand Strategy Teams)
Support TA strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie for future success
Serves as strategic partner to R&D and Commercial leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and workstreams
Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or response
Help communicate and execute TA strategies across AbbVie
As appropriate, facilitate identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies and new clinical endpoints (e.g., digital or imaging tools, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, devices, and other platform technologies) that can be employed to improve or accelerate key strategic priorities
In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes