Director, Business Evolution Strategic Development

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. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

AbbVie Business Evolution Strategic Development Team is responsible for developing and executing forward-looking strategic plans that will ensure AbbVie’s readiness for, and ability to successfully navigate, potential changes in the healthcare environment such as PBM reform and International Reference Pricing.

PURPOSE OF ROLE

Drive the strategic development and assessment of go-to-market models with a 2–10-year horizon view. Lead cross-functional workstreams to optimize the development of innovative and actionable strategies for AbbVie in a changing external environment leveraging strong collaborative relationships, data, analytics and strategic mind-set.   Bring an enterprise mindset and deep understanding of the business models, incentives and challenges of stakeholders across the US Healthcare System – Payers, Pharmacies, Employers, Employee Benefit Consultants, Prescribers, Patients and Distributors, etc. Effectively orchestrate internal and external partners including consultants, customers, Market Access, Analytics and Insights, Finance, Medical Affairs and Health Economics Outcomes Research.

This role may sit one of these US based Corporate Regional locations: North Chicago, Florham Park, NJ, Irvine, CA

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop proactive recommendations for go-to-market models and innovative business solutions to navigate the evolving healthcare landscape and AbbVie portfolio
• Identify opportunities to shape the future environment in line with AbbVie’s patient-focused goals, priorities and future pipeline.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive External Environment-related priorities.
• Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond
• In collaboration with relevant functions, drive internal and external stakeholder assessments to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand levers to improve outcomes
• Help communicate and execute strategies to address disruptors across AbbVie
• Gain insights through customer/stakeholder connections in collaboration with Account Management Teams

SKILLS

• Vision and Strategy: Set tone and priorities for scale and scope. Leverage experience to provide overarching direction for future go-to-market models, strategies, plans and resource investment for AbbVie stakeholders. Encompass an enterprise mindset and perspective in all strategies.
• Action and Accountability: Establish definitive expertise within AbbVie and consistently triangulate market dynamics, healthcare stakeholder needs, and business priorities to determine best, market-advantaged elements and/or opportunities to shape external environment or AbbVie business practices to best succeed over the LRP.
• Leadership and Influence: Influence and persuade across multiple external and internal constituents. Lead and develop direct, indirect and cross-functional teams.
• Collaboration and Teamwork: Work effectively with internal stakeholders, external market experts and support partners to assimilate leading insights, strategy development and cross-functional execution.

• Bachelor’s Degree required. Advanced Degree/Masters in related healthcare field desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years of Pharmaceutical Market Access, Healthcare or Policy experience
• Five or more years of leadership experience including deep operational knowledge of healthcare stakeholders and key functions (e.g. Payers, Employers, Employee Benefits Consultants, Pharmacies)
• Deep knowledge of the current and emerging US access, reimbursement, and pricing landscape for pharmaceutical products (both Pharmacy and Medical reimbursement)
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and strategic execution skills
• Proven performance in a cross-functional matrix environment with ability to lead, influence and align stakeholders
• Proven ability to operate with independence to structure and drive complex project plans to address a wide range of problems in situations of ambiguity
• Strong analytical skills. Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure that balanced risk assessments and strategic recommendations
• Excellent communication skills, and ability to build strong stakeholder relationships across company functions
• Optimistic, inquisitive, and able to drive results independently

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 short-term incentive programs. ​

• 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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