Thought Leader Liaison, Multiple Myeloma - South

About the role

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL), Multiple Myeloma is a field-based role responsible for executing an external expert engagement strategy that advances brand and franchise objectives. The TLL will engage, build, and maintain strategic external-expert relationships in the assigned geography and provide insights that shape brand strategy and tactics. This role partners with commercial teams, agencies, legal, compliance, medical, and co-marketing partners to drive business objectives. The TLL must lead without authority and contribute to building a compliant, integrated, and collaborative team culture.

Accountabilities

• External expert relationship ownership: Own and cultivate relationships with a defined group of Multiple Myeloma thought leaders and oncology stakeholders by understanding their influence, interests, educational roles, and engagement objectives.
• Engagement planning and mapping: Develop and maintain expert mapping, segmentation, interaction history, and engagement plans that translate national priorities into aligned stakeholder objectives and engagement activities.
• Insight generation: Capture and synthesize external expert perspectives into actionable insights that inform internal partners of treatment landscape trends, educational needs, competitive dynamics, opportunities, risks, and shifts in sentiment for launch readiness.
• Congress and advisory execution: Plan and execute regional congress, advisory, consultant, educational, sponsorship, and follow-up activities in alignment with brand strategy, stakeholder priorities, budget, and governance requirements.
• Education strategy execution: Partner with brand team to execute educational strategy by supporting speaker readiness, maintaining relationships with speakers and educational experts, identifying educational gaps, and connecting internal resources to external stakeholder opportunities.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Analytics, field, and home-office partners to align customer-facing teams on external expert engagement objectives, follow-up, and brand or franchise initiatives.
• Compliance and operational discipline: Maintain compliant execution by adhering to SOPs and legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements while managing assigned activities within approved budgets, vendor processes, and governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• A minimum of 2 years' recent experience engaging with hematology thought leaders with demonstrated experience in academic and community settings
• Multiple Myeloma experience required
• Established relationships with Multiple Myeloma oncology and nurse thought leaders preferred
• Experience in insight collection activities with external experts
• Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, collaboration and data discussion skill sets
• Proven track record for consistently meeting or exceeding qualitative and/or quantitative goals
• Proven and thorough knowledge of commercial issues associated with highly competitive oncology therapeutic areas
• Launch experience in pharmaceutical marketing or sales preferred
• Sole responsibility to satisfy all applicable health care industry representative credentialing requirements as needed to gain/maintain entry into facilities in assigned geography. Must remain in good standing and/or eligible to obtain necessary credentials and hold liability for failing to do so. AbbVie has resources available to help answer any related questions.
• Business travel, by air or car, is regularly required. Candidate needs to be able to work effectively while engaged in travel and deliver timely results

Benefits

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick)
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) to eligible employees
• This job is eligible to participate in long-term incentive programs

Pay

The compensation range is based on the job grade for this position at the time of this posting. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and may ultimately be paid more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.