Associate Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation

Associate Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation

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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, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation
, will work directly with the Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation, to ensure cross-functional connectivity and consistency in internal communications across the global R&D organization. Key responsibilities include developing R&D employee engagement and communications strategy, stakeholder management and delivering plans and messages to support R&D-wide initiatives, culture campaigns and change management efforts in alignment with business priorities.

• Work directly with the Director, R&D Integrated Planning and Activation, and in partnership with Corporate Affairs and R&D functional communicators, to align, activate and pull-through R&D initiatives and employee engagement communications, ensuring elevation of the R&D Identity and integration with R&D strategic priorities.
• Develop, coordinate, and deliver R&D employee engagement and communications strategy for R&D-wide signature programs and culture building campaigns, including but not limited to award and recognition programs and leadership development.
• Serve as a strategic partner to R&D function communicators by providing advisory support and ensuring message pull-through and connection to enterprise R&D narrative.
• Engage R&D function leadership and communications stakeholders to create, socialize, optimize, and implement R&D-wide initiatives and drive alignment and buy-in with guidelines.
• Drive utilization and manage content for R&D-wide communications channels that enhance employee connection and engagement, including but not limited to town halls, leader forums, email, newsletters, intranet, and Microsoft TEAMS.
• Deliver compelling written / digital / video content, creative storytelling, and consistent messages to support cross-functional R&D information updates and change management efforts.
• Evaluate performance for strategic projects and communications based on real-time metrics, and refine strategies based on analytics.
• Stay up to date on the industry external environment and evolving internal communications best practices to ensure optimal strategy across existing channels, as well as recommending new platforms for consideration.

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Communications or related field. Preferred MBA or master’s degree.
• Prior experience in R&D or scientific environments, pharma, biotech, and/or healthcare preferred.
• Demonstrated success delivering integrated communications plans and managing stakeholder relationships with leaders, peers, and teams. Ability to motivate, lead, influence, and engage without direct authority.
• Expertise in large scale change management communications, employee engagement campaigns, and communications strategy.
• Advanced project management and communication skills.
• Able to manage multiple, simultaneous projects with moderate-high complexity, often under a tight deadline.
• Outcomes-focused with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Sound, logical problem solving and decision-making skills.
• Working knowledge of the market including scientific trends and issues as they relate to Abb Vie.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, Word, Staffbase, Unily for communications development and delivery.

• R&D Capabilities and Integrated Communications Teams, Corporate Affairs, R&D Functional Communicators, Cross-functional team members.