Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 141500
• Salary Max: 268500
• Workday Global Grade: 20
• Compensation: USD 141,500 - USD 268,500 - yearly

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  .

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Purpose:

The Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships plays a central role in advancing Oncology Early Development (OED) strategy by connecting strategic initiatives, partnerships, and emerging capabilities to OED priorities, helping the organization deliver its pipeline with greater speed, quality, and efficiency. This role serves as program and operations lead for P1

PER, OED's preferred site network, managing site performance and investigator relationships. The role also leads innovation initiatives, moving successful pilots to scale across OED, and manages OED's key external partnerships, including CROs.

Responsibilities:

• Lead global, complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives and innovation projects for OED.
• Drive innovation pilot-to-scale efforts by engaging innovation partners and providing program management, KPIs, and leadership alignment to inform scaling decisions.
• Develop project plans, risk and contingency plans, and effectiveness metrics for each initiative; lead problem solving and risk mitigation at a global level.
• Represent OED in cross-Abb Vie initiatives, bringing a first-in-human perspective to process, technology, and organizational implementations.
• Lead program and operations for P1
  
  PER, OED's preferred site network, including engagement planning, site operational capabilities, KPIs, and alignment with Abb Vie's broader site engagement strategy.
• Partner with study teams, OED, and country affiliates to maximize use of P1
  
  PER sites across the OED portfolio.
• Coordinate site and investigator engagement, including conference meetings and study coordinator meetings, to strengthen relationships and OED's visibility with leading oncology sites.
• Manage day-to-day relationships across OED's partnership portfolio, including CROs and vendors; track performance against KPIs, identify issue trends, and support partnership governance forums to promote partner accountability.
• This position will report into a director level and will manage matrix teams. This position may have 1-2 direct reports

• Bachelor’s degree (or ex-US equivalent) is required, typically in scientific field. An Associate’s degree/R.N. (or ex-US equivalent) with relevant experience is acceptable
• 8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of roles associated with drug development (research and development, commercial, project management, operations) Minimum of 2 years supporting cross-functional teams in a core function (Program Management, Development, Regulatory, Operations)
• Developing leadership skills
• Good communication skills both written and oral
• Strong project management experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Preferred:
  Experience with both global and regional teams in the pharmaceutical industry
• Demonstration of leading a global team PMP, Change management, Lean Six Sigma or process improvement experience desirable

Key Stakeholders:

Clinical Operations, Clinical Science, Pharmaceutical Development, Drug Development Project Management, Precision Medicine, Country Affiliates, Purchasing & Supplier…