Associate Director, Neuroscience Commercial Strategy Corporate Business Strategy Office

About the role

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. The Associate Director of Neuroscience Commercial Strategy – Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO) will help drive commercial & market innovation strategy and business operations projects across the Neuroscience business, which includes Psychiatry, Migraine, Parkinson’s Disease, and BOTOX Therapeutics.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Director and VP-level stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and solve mission-critical business challenges to advance the Neuroscience franchise through structured problem-solving and data-driven insights.
• Drive key commercial on-market strategic initiatives to maximize patient impact and growth of in-line brands.
• Work with brand teams to lead the development of launch strategy for launch-ready products.
• Execute opportunities to drive operational effectiveness within and across business units with key cross-functional partners, e.g., Finance and HR.
• Lead development of business and operational reviews to senior Commercial and Executive leadership.
• Foster positive working relationships and be highly collaborative with each franchise brand teams, Finance, Medical, R&D, Market Access, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Market Analytics and Business Insights (MABI), Sales Training, Sales Force Effectiveness, Regulatory, Customer Experience, and other cross franchise teams to gain input into developing strategic and operational projects.
• Identify/scope key strategic initiatives and lead project execution end to end.
• Influence without authority, while building a collaborative and integrated approach across the organization.
• Support data analytical execution, creating strong narratives on insights and communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• BA/BS required; MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD) preferred.
• At least 5–7 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.
• Understanding and experience with Neuroscience products both inline and in development preferred.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organization levels and disciplines, including senior executives.

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies

• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills as well as demonstrated ability to learn new disease states.
• Highly collaborative; enjoys working hand-in-hand with the businesses to develop solutions that advance AbbVie’s overall mission.
• Maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills; demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy.
• Self-starter who proactively drives projects toward successful completion.
• Learns fast; can quickly grasp the essence of concepts and change course rapidly where required.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior leadership to drive alignment on a strategic vision and facilitate decision making on critical issues.
• Experience working with pre-launch, launch, and/or on-market commercial teams preferred.
• Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed pharmaceutical organization, either as an external consultant or an internal cross-functional lead.

Leadership Skills

• Excellence Focused
• Optimistic
• Open and Authentic

This position is a hybrid opportunity requiring at minimum three (3) days onsite in the respective AbbVie office location.