Associate Director, Business Insights Lead

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie'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 Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

Purpose

Reporting to the Director, Strategy, Analytics & Business Insights (SABI), the Associate Director, Business Insights serves as the primary analytical and strategic partner to the Clinical Site Management (CSM) organization. This role owns portfolio-level business insights for Clinical Site Management — translating complex, ambiguous business questions into data-driven analyses that directly inform Sr. Director and VP-level decisions across site strategy, study design, resourcing, and risk management.

The Associate Director builds and sustains trusted relationships with Sr. Directors and their leadership teams across all geographic areas and across the clinical study lifecycle, ensuring SABI’s analytical capabilities are embedded into how every leader plans and executes their operation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement:
  Serve as the primary SABI point of contact and trusted advisor to Area heads and Clinical Field Excellence leadership, proactively identifying where data and analytics can resolve ambiguity in portfolio-level decisions.
• End-to-End Insight Delivery:
  Lead delivery of portfolio-level insights — from hypothesis generation and data identification through analysis, insight generation, and recommendations — following SABI’s hypothesis-driven problem-solving approach.
• Analytical Product Ownership:
  Own and evolve key analytical products for Clinical Site Management (e.g., site  allocation models, country/site performance benchmarking, enrollment scenario planning, operational trend analyses), ensuring they remain decision-relevant as portfolio priorities shift.
• Cross-Geographic Support — Americas to Europe to Intercontinental:
  Provide analytical and decision-support coverage to all global stakeholders, extending proven approaches where transferable and adapting them to country/region-specific needs.
• Business Need Translation:
  Partner with Sr. Directors and CSM leadership across all functions to translate emerging business needs into scoped, actionable analytical work streams.
• Executive Communication:
  Influence Sr. Directors/VP-level decisions, tailoring communication to executive audiences.
• Risk & Gap Identification:
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• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with SABI’s other leads (across CSL and CSM) and adjacent CAP functions (Study Feasibility & Analytics, Clinical Acceleration Solutions) to ensure consistency and reuse of analytical approaches across therapeutic areas.
• CDO-Wide Initiatives:
  Provide analytical and strategic support for priority CDO-wide initiatives, partnering across functions and applying SABI capabilities beyond assigned therapeutic areas to advance enterprise objectives.
• Team Capability Development:
  Provide project-based coaching and mentorship to junior team members and rotational analysts supporting SABI work, while maintaining accountability for the quality and analytical rigor of assigned outputs.
• Global Stewardship:
  Maintain a global mindset with an objective and long-term view of stakeholder needs across all CSM functions, balancing responsiveness to Sr. Director requests with SABI’s focus on high-impact, analytically complex work.

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