Senior Director, HEOR Strategy - Neuroscience

About the role

The Sr. Director is responsible for strategic research plans and agendas, execution of studies and projects within those plans for a portfolio of assets/brands/indications across a therapeutic area. They lead a team of Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) scientists with global responsibility for demonstrating the health-economic value of AbbVie's pharmaceutical products/assets.

Responsibilities

• Highly effectively communicates findings to internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Accountable for the creation of strategic plans for all products within the TAs for which he/she has oversight and ensures these plans remain relevant to product development and the marketplace.
• Guides and counsels across therapeutic areas worldwide management and senior leadership on HEOR aspects of product value.
• Influences at the enterprise level, manages and prioritizes resources, and develops and retains a high-performing team.
• Drives the design, conduct, and analysis of projects within each product area strategy across multiple programs. Accountable for project execution and budget.
• Directs, develops, organizes, and implements the HEOR strategy with concurrence of functional management to allow the development of each NDP to proceed expeditiously and smoothly toward registration, PR&A, and market launch in compliance with national and international governmental regulations.
• Develops and executes HEOR product life-cycle and labeling strategies in the post-marketing setting. Responsible for integrating customer needs for value demonstration, commercial organization direction, and product realities into strategies.
• Assumes full scientific HEOR strategic support of commercialization activities including facilitating market access and growing the market. Accountable for end-to-end delivery of HEOR book of work under their remit, from strategy development to content pull-through.
• Ensures strong partnerships with all relevant HEOR COE functions to ensure a comprehensive HEOR voice is represented in cross-functional meetings.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree, MD, PharmD, MS in Economics, Econometrics, or (pharmaco)epidemiology.
• Minimum of twelve years working experience with Masters, ten years with PhD (can include fellowship experience).
• Professional training in a health field (MD, PharmD, etc.) is a plus.
• Typically 10+ years of clinical development experience in the pharmaceutical industry, CRO, academia or other health-related consulting company plus having expert knowledge in a relevant therapeutic specialty. Clinical research experience strongly recommended; within pharmaceutical industry preferred.
• Ability to perform at times in previously uncharted territory with few, if any, established guidelines or procedures. Ability to direct compliance knowledgeably and expeditiously when faced with complex governmental rules and regulations.
• Experience leading complex products and/or clinical development in support of pipeline development and on-market product support preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of the global regulatory, HTA, and PR&A landscape, as well as understanding of other development-related functions as they relate to all phases of drug development.
• Skills to perform the dual roles of leading a cross-functional team and managing scientific personnel in clinical research. Self-starter with a strong desire to see projects achieve commercial success.
• High goal-orientation with the ability to see solutions rather than problems as projects encounter the inevitable ups and downs associated with new drug development or on-market product support.
• Proven people leadership and ability to lead leaders.