Director, Portfolio Insights

About the role

The Portfolio Insights team at AbbVie is responsible for making data-driven decisions on portfolio choices across various therapeutic areas. The Director, Portfolio Insights leads strategic projects and provides broad exposure to the team's core capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-priority 2026 strategic initiatives, including enhancing the Quarterly Portfolio Prioritization (QPP) process and modernizing valuation methodologies.
• Support the implementation of R&D productivity as a core organizational mindset through collaboration on the "R&D Pulse" initiative and benchmarking AbbVie's performance against peers.
• Flex into different areas of the portfolio to conduct ad-hoc analyses, scenario planning, and strategic projects at the request of leadership.
• Develop high-impact recommendations on project value, trade-offs, and scenarios for senior leadership.
• Prepare actionable insights and executive narratives for the monthly Portfolio Review Forum, R&D Plan, and Financial Long Range Planning (LRP).
• Socialize the value and practical implications of moving to a more data-driven approach for key decision-making across therapeutic area leadership.
• Build capabilities within the team and across the organization, focusing on value assessment and analytics, including the construction of value metrics and scenario analyses.
• Support efforts to deploy and improve dashboards for interrogating the R&D portfolio and exploring new use cases that leverage AbbVie's foundational portfolio data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific or business field required; advanced degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
• Prior experience in management consulting, with a track record in R&D strategy/portfolio prioritization projects, strongly preferred.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with a deep understanding of Pharma R&D business processes, investment stage-gating, and commercial forecasting.
• Demonstrated success in fast-paced, ambiguous settings; proven track record of leading complex strategic initiatives without direct authority.
• High level of executive presence; ability to navigate different functional perspectives, challenge the status quo, and drive enterprise thinking.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to distill complex data into clear, compelling narratives for senior leadership.
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to drive multiple workstreams simultaneously.

Key Stakeholders

• Portfolio governance: PPM (Program and Portfolio Management), ASL (Asset Strategy Leadership).
• R&D functions: Clinical Development, Regulatory, Statistics, R&D Strategic Resourcing.
• Finance partners: R&D Finance, Commercial Finance.
• Commercial, partnering & business development: Pipeline Commercialization, Commercial Business Units, Search & Evaluation, Business Development.
• Strategic partners: Innovation, Transformation, TA Strategy.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: 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 compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees. This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

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