Director, Competitive & Strategic Insights - AI Strategy

About the role

The Director, Competitive & Strategic Insights (CSI) AI Lead will drive enterprise-wide CI capabilities through AI and additional technologies, in partnership with cross-functional partners (e.g. Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Commercial, etc.). In this role, you will also be a key business owner for ODIN, AbbVie’s enterprise market and competitive intelligence platform, driving overall strategic direction and implementation.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise integration strategy across other competitive intelligence systems and data sources and ensure stakeholders have single version of truth.
• Lead the business strategy for integrating competitive intelligence platforms, syndicated data sources, internal repositories, AI agents, dashboards, knowledge graphs, and external vendor capabilities into the ODIN ecosystem.
• Evaluate existing and emerging CI, market intelligence, syndicated data, social intelligence, literature, patent, clinical trial, and pipeline intelligence tools to determine whether they should be integrated into ODIN, continued as specialized platforms, rationalized, or retired.
• Partner with BTS to define business requirements for CI knowledge graph and agent-enabled workflows, ensuring AI agents are grounded in approved, traceable, and validated intelligence sources.
• Lead ODIN business governance forums, including intake, prioritization, roadmap trade-offs, executive updates, capability decisions, and cross-functional alignment across CSI, Commercial, BTS, Achieving Protocol Excellence (APEX), Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO), R&D, and enterprise functions.
• Support documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned versus realized value across program phases.
• Enable enterprise CI AI capabilities, partner closely with CI leads, BTS, analytics, and platform stakeholders to align feasibility, timing, and execution without owning coding or engineering tasks directly.
• Translate competitive intelligence questions into compelling, intuitive visual experiences that surface patterns, risks, and opportunities across AI platforms, including ODIN.
• Platform KPIs & Adoption Metrics: Track, maintain, and report on platform KPIs, adoption metrics, user engagement, and feedback, providing regular updates to business owners to inform rollout and prioritization decisions.
• Use Case Development & Benefits Tracking: Support the documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN platform use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned vs. realized value across program phases.
• Drive and implement communication and training for ODIN and additional AI CI resources at the enterprise level, and across the BUs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in health/life sciences required; Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) in Life Sciences/Medicine is preferred
• 7-9 years of experience in Pharma/Biotech with 3-5+ years of experience CI or market research in Pharma/Biotech pipeline assets; immunology clinical development/regulatory experience preferred
• Expertise with CI methodologies (preferred)
• AI & Technical Fluency: Ability to engage credibly with AI/ML partners and internal experts, translate technical concepts into business context
• Proven track record of defining and executing end-to-end product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for AI-enabled CI capabilities, including making trade-off decisions across business value, feasibility, and timing
• Familiarity with competitive intelligence platforms (e.g. Evaluate Pharma, Cortellis, PatBase, Citeline)
• Strong oral, facilitation, and written communication skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications; PPT proficiency
• Ability to interact effectively with/present to all levels of the organization; Stakeholder management and executive presence

Qualifications

• None

Skills

• None

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k)
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Pay

$160,500 - $305,000 USD

Schedule

Hybrid

Location

North Chicago, IL