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About AbbVie

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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn,Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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Job Description

The Asset Strategy Leader is an experienced and established leader with the ability to influence across multiple functions and levels within Abbvie who serves as the matrix leader with overall accountability for an asset from discovery to end of life cycle. He / she guides and directs the creation and execution of a comprehensive asset strategy and phase appropriate brand strategies for one or multiple asset(s). This responsibility requires consideration and integration of all functional activities relevant to the successful development, registration, manufacture and commercialization, of the asset throughout its lifecycle with specific emphasis on ensuring an integrated strategy across these elements. Serving as the primary face of the asset at AbbVie, the Asset Strategy Leader works with governance, functional leaders, and other cross-functional groups and external development partners, to advance and optimize the value of the asset consistent with its prioritization in the overall portfolio. This is not an entry point to a leadership position, but will require someone with a broad exposure to all the activities involved in successfully developing and launching assets and brands (Development, Discovery, Development Sciences, Operations, Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Safety, Project Management, Medical Affairs, etc., and substantial cross-functional interaction during your career) to draw upon past experiences that will provide the best outcomes for the progress, registration, reimbursement and life cycle of one or more assets or brands. The position will require broad leadership skills with enterprise level thinking.

This position is based on site at one of AbbVie’s main locations (e.g., Irvine, Lake County, San Fransisco, New Jersey).

Responsibilities

• Chairs an Asset Strategy Team (AST). In this capacity, serves as the enterprise leader who is the project’s primary point of contact for Pipeline Governance and senior management.
• Has a broad vision for the asset and leads the effort to create, articulate and gain endorsement of an integrated cross-functional Global Asset Strategy and Brand Strategy for all aspects of product development, commercialization and lifecycle management and ensures timely, multidirectional and comprehensive interactions with Pipeline Governance within the Pipeline Operating Model, including close liaison with the key governance bodies of Aesthetics Device Governance Board, Tri-Function Review and other ad hoc governance requests within Abbvie.
• Ability to put asset recommendations in context of Abbvie’s enterprise objectives
• Maintains primary responsibility for the ensuing deliverables, including a functionally aligned Global Asset Strategy and Product Development Plan (PDP).Reviews and analyzes emerging data objectively to drive team toward recommendations that highlight opportunities, address potential risks and proactively provide appropriate mitigations.
• Builds strong, collaborative peer-to-peer relationships with governance team members and executives to enable optimal timely, multi-directional, and comprehensive interactions with PCM Governance at pre-specified milestones and as program issues or opportunities arise.
• Has a deep understanding of the role and value of each function on the team, to know how to solicit timely input. Collaborates with AST functions to ensure program is appropriately resourced and stays within allocated budget and champions requests for incremental resources when appropriate. Works continually with supporting teams to ensure that strategy and executed plans are consistent with the Target Product Profile (TPP), Asset Plan and PDP, tracking progress in conjunction with the Portfolio Project Manager, with attention to committed timeline and budget.
• Ensures that the AST continually validates the viability of the program from a scientific and commercial perspective. Develops clear, prospective Go/No-Go decision points and serves as a champion for the program, using objectivity and judgment to analyze, interpret and present data to Pipeline Governance and senior management.
• Strategic advisor to cross-functional teams (e.g., Global Brand Team, CMC, Integrated evidence strategy team, Value and Access team, Regulatory strategy, etc.).
  • Ensure development and alignment with deliverable team co-chairs for key plan deliverables such as the Integrated Evidence Plan, Regulatory Strategy plans, Brand plans, Operations LRP plans.
• Establishes close, ongoing ties with across Asset and deliverable team members and enables a culture of inclusivity, psychological safety, and empowerment. Maintains a function-neutral position in prioritizing actions and making decisions, with an eye toward optimizing asset and portfolio value in a timely and high-quality fashion. Coaches and mentors team members, consistent with the High Performing Teams (HPT) model. Enables the AST to focus on strategy and decision-making, and optimal communication of issues to support teams and leadership.
• Represents the AST at interactions with external parties (e.g., Advisory Boards, regulatory interactions) when these engagements require broad cross-functional contributions. Exhibits exceptional executive presence and clear communication with all levels of management.
• Works with team members to maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the competitive environment in the field and to assess for potential impact on ongoing programs. Stays abreast of professional information, industry trends, and emerging technology through conferences, medical literature, and training to augment expertise in drug development and the pharmaceutical industry. Develops a comprehensive understanding of how AbbVie’s assets are positioned relative to competitor assets
• Understands what’s important and focuses the team and stakeholders there as well. Asks the right question and seeks all points of view in order to find the best path forward.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Advanced (Doctoral-level or MBA) degree highly preferred.
• Relevant experience (minimum of 5 years to 8 years; 10+ years preferred) as a leader in a pharmaceutical/biotech Commercial, R&D, Regulatory or Operations setting; deep expertise in a relevant discipline associated with drug development and /or commercialization and ideally experienced in multiple areas of the industry, often with multiple therapy areas, phases of development.
• Demonstrated a high-level of strategic thinking, leadership, and problem-solving, with the ability to swiftly apply new knowledge to asset strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Ideally experienced across multiple device product development, particular emphasis on aesthetics programs.
• Have had the experience of following a single asset and associated brands through all the phases of the development and commercialization of a single asset will be preferred but achieving as an aggregate of experience across multiple assets is also acceptable.
• Demonstrated ability to lead. motivate and elicit top performance from teams in a cross functional, highly matrixed pharmaceutical/biotech environment, preferably with global scope, in any discipline which involves a broad understanding of all phases of drug commercialization.
• Ability to objectively exercise judgment and create pragmatic solutions to address complex cross-functional problems, and to be accountable for obtaining stakeholder advice to make informed decisions, to move a program forward in the face of uncertainty or incomplete data. Can stand alone or take unpopular decisions to ensure appropriate organizational decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with and influence senior executives
• Experience of how different elements (discovery, development, regulatory, commercial etc.) fit together in the drug commercialization lifecycle and has demonstrable ability to rapidly assimilate new knowledge of relevance to drug development and commercialization
• Deep expertise in the strategy and execution for commercialization of drugs including R&D, Regulatory, Commercial and /or Manufacturing
• Ability to objectively exercise judgment and create pragmatic solutions to address complex cross-functional problems and to be accountable for obtaining stakeholder advice to make informed decisions, in order to move a program forward in the face of uncertainty or incomplete data. Ability to delegate appropriate accountability and decision-making to supporting teams and functions.