Manager, Accounts

Company Description

About Abb Vie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

The Account Manager I serves as the primary point of contact who partners with Business Owners and stakeholders across the organization to provide high-level strategic, compliance and operational counsel for all sponsorship/exhibit/membership (SEM) needs. By providing effective support, the Account Manager I helps to deliver effective and compliant corporate and regional engagements to meet strategic and tactical business needs as well as support the disease state awareness education for our colleagues, the industry, patients, and HCO/Customers.

The Account Manager develops strong relationships with all cross-functional partners and Business Owners to educate them on the SEM processes and ensure all global and US compliance requirements are met. This role is viewed as the SME for Sponsorship/Exhibit/Membership processes, understanding all aspects and nuances of the sponsorship process. Serves as point of contact for audits as it relates to area of expertise.

• Fosters long term partnerships and serves as the point of contact for all of Abb Vie and its subsidiaries to take responsibility for all aspects associated with global Third-Party Engagements to support Abb Vie's business goals and objectives along with its footprint in the landscape of the related disease state.
• Reviews and approves SEM requests to ensure a legitimate business need exists for the industry event being sought including working with Abb Vie legal to negotiate Legal Redlines.
• Responsible for timely communication of status and issues that could impact timelines.
• Proactively looks for ways to improve and streamline internal processes.
• Drives implementation of process changes and system assessment as well as Business Owner training.
• Successfully builds strong productive, mutually beneficial relationships while enhancing collaboration with peers, internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Responsible for compliance with country-specific laws, company and departmental policies and procedures for interacting with HCO’s, GPOs, Non-Profits, and Patients globally in the SEM space.
• Provides solutions and contingency plans to facilitate business success. Demonstrates authority and decision-making ability.
• Provides solutions and contingency plans to facilitate business success. Demonstrates authority and decision-making ability.
• Leverages knowledge of customer’s goals/priorities and is a strong partner to support those strategies and objectives. Holds self and team accountable for driving results that align with the SEM center of excellence.

• Ability to produce clear, concise, and professional communications to business owners and external HCOs/Customers.
• Ability to communicate schedules to Business Owners and coordinate activities to ensure business needs and compliance requirements are met.
• Excellent communication skills: written, presentation and oral that persuades and gains understanding and alignment with others in a professional tone.
• Strong ability to read and display professional non-verbal cues with others. Able to influence and communicate with various levels of the organization.
• Ability to prioritize and multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Willing to take on additional responsibilities and demonstrate ability to multitask and manage multiple small to large projects in a cross-functional environment.
• Ability to present and explain complex information in a way that establishes rapport, persuade others and gains understanding and alignment.
• Must demonstrate professionalism, strong customer focus, and ability to not only manage but exceed customer expectations.
• Demonstrates thorough understanding of all requirements associated with Sponsor ships, Exhibits, and Memberships (SEM).
• Provides solutions and contingency plans to facilitate business success. Demonstrates authority and decision-making ability.
• Leverages knowledge of customer’s goals/priorities and is a strong partner to support those strategies and objectives. Holds self and team accountable for driving results that align with the SEM center of excellence.

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual…