Associate Director, Commercial Strategy and Operations

Company Description

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas — immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care — and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

The Associate Director will help drive commercial strategy and business operations projects across the U.S. Specialty and Therapeutic Operations business, which includes Primary Care, Anti-Infectives, Women’s Health, Gastrointestinal, Market Access, Patient Services, Digital Lab, Analytics, and Operations. Specific activities will include:

• Strategic Excellence
  • Lead key commercial on-market strategic initiatives that capture additional value in the short term (12-24 months) across franchises as well as launch readiness for late-stage assets
  • Lead key strategic initiatives across U.S. Specialty that identify longer-term growth (e.g., Strategy LRP, BD assessment, Roadmap and Brand planning)
• Operational Effectiveness
  • Execute opportunities to drive operational effectiveness within and across business units with key cross-functional partners, e.g., Finance and HR
  • Facilitate effective and collaborative cross-functional engagements to optimize Abb Vie capabilities, e.g., with Integrated Brand Teams, Customer Experience, Medical, Compliance HEOR, Business Technology Solutions, etc.
  • Lead development of business and operational reviews to senior Commercial and Executive leadership

The Associate Director will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to identify and develop strategic and operational opportunities. Hence, this position will foster positive working relationships and be highly collaborative with each franchise brand teams, Finance, Medical, R&D, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), and other cross-franchise teams to gain input into developing strategic and operational projects. The Associate Director must demonstrate the ability to lead without authority, while building a collaborative, integrated approach across the organization.

This position reports to the Director, Strategy and Operations, and will support data analytical execution, creating strong narratives on insights and communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership.

• BA/BS required, MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD) preferred
• At least 3-5 years of professional industry experience with a successful track record in management consulting (at least 2+ years), pipeline management, or pharmaceutical marketing with strong analytical and strategic marketing skills
• Previous experience in pharma R&D, Corporate Strategy, Brand Management, and/or Marketing
• Deep understanding and experience with primary care products both inline and in development
• Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organizational levels and disciplines, including senior executives

• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills as well as demonstrated ability to learn new disease states
• Strong ability to communicate ideas and make the complex easy for others to understand
• Good financial acumen with an understanding of P&L drivers
• Self-starter, proactively driving projects toward successful completion
• Experience with matrix-based teams and project management
• Works collaboratively and proactively, maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills, demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functional partners outside of immediate team
• Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy
• Self-starter, learns fast, quickly grasps the essence of concepts, can change course rapidly where required, demonstrates intellectual curiosity
• Executes highly effective working team…