Manager, Material Review and Promotion

Company Description

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.

This role can be located in either Mettawa, IL or Florham Park, NJ.

The Manager, Material Review and Promotion facilitates the management of Advertising & Promotional materials as they pertain to the U.S. Commercial MRP (Material Review Process).

• Facilitation of cross-functional team (Medical, Regulatory, Commercial, Legal, Compliance, others) review and approval of:
  • Advertising materials
  • Promotional materials
  • Sales Training materials
  • Promotional Labeling materials
• Leads management of cross functional team members and advertising agencies
• Open communication of material status with cross-functional team members and advertising agencies
• Tactical support and project timeline oversight of materials through MRP
• Lead consultant and trainer on the MRP, supporting to all team members responsible for uploading and approving materials
• Timely review of all promotional, non-promotional materials through U.S. Commercial, Medical reviewers, Regulatory reviewers, and other key stakeholders

• Management and development a staff of project managers
• Solutions and contingency plans to facilitate business success
• Holds self and team accountable for results
• Serves as a mentor and coaches others on the MRP
• Proactively provides consulting, expertise and MRP process training to cross-functional team members
• Evaluates and updates processes to adapt to a changing environment and to optimize efficiencies
• Coordinating logistics to ensure timely production, fulfillment and shipment of materials
• Provides Leadership for innovative solutions to project hurdles
• Develops a strong knowledge of customers’ goals and priorities, partners to support those objective

• Leads the review process for promotional and non-promotional materials that are routed through the MRP
• Perform “Final Sign-off” on material submissions uploaded into Veeva
• Validate that the metadata / review tier aligns with the submitted materials
  • Determine if legal/compliance is required
  • Determine if Editorial Quality Check is required
  • If additional reviewers are not aligned with the selected review tier, tag additional reviewers and update review tier as necessary
  • Ensure sources files are uploaded into the Veeva for production vendors
• Validate all back-end approvals prior to routing material to Regulatory Affairs for Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) submission
• Oversee release of approved material for distribution
• When material withdrawal is required, inform inventory vendors
• Initiate production of updated package inserts
• Identify promotional material that needs inventory updates and Initiate inventory update process
• Proactively looks for and leads ways to improve agility by streamlining and simplifying internal processes and drives implementation of process changes
• Strong understanding of Agency and Printer process. Offering guidance and leadership to commercial team members and agencies as it relates to printing processes

Project manages a team of 10 to 20 cross-functional team members

• Schedule, manage and facilitate formal concept review requests, schedules live review meetings to resolve and discuss reviewer comments (i.e., Tier 1 reviews, Formal Concept Reviews)
• Creates and communicates weekly review team meeting agendas
• Prioritize and schedule any additional live meeting requests (e.g., exceptions, revise & resubmits) as needed
• Schedule and facilitate weekly live prioritization meetings with business owners
• Review dashboard within Veeva to understand upcoming volume of materials being planned for submission
• Act as a neutral…