Director II, Clinical Innovation, Clinical Design

Company Description

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—immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care—and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

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The Clinical Innovation team is an ambitious team of Scientists, Engineers, and Data Scientists with a unique blend of business, scientific, and technical expertise. We deliver transformative solutions to advance evidence generation, interpretation, and utilization. As the program continues to grow, we’re seeking a strong leader to drive the development of core capabilities toward an approach designed to consider, measure, and interpret all elements that contribute to a personalized outcome.

As a Director in Clinical Innovation, you will play a leadership role in building the future of evidence generation designed to modernize the approach to clinical design. The position requires the ability to define key questions and creatively apply methodology and analytical skills to bring resolute answers through novel study design. The position may be filled at either the Director I or Director II level, depending on the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The role is based onsite in Irvine, CA.

• Define objectives and develop study design scenarios and options to support novel non‑interventional and interventional studies.
• Create data‑driven rationale packages to support decision making internally and externally (health‑authority facing).
• Work hand in hand with clinical science and data sciences to leverage the power of cross Clinical Innovation solutions to build supporting study elements and maximize our approach within and outside Clinical Innovation.
• Identify and cultivate strong functional and cross‑functional relationships to drive organizational synergies and develop meaningful solutions that span translation to late development studies.
• Stay ahead of emerging biostatistical, scientific, and technological trends to support novel study design.
• Represent Clinical Innovation in forums designed to align on good decision making associated with identifying the best approach to gain institutional knowledge with a balance of thoroughness and agility.

• For a Director I, MD or PhD in Biological Sciences and 7+ years of experience in clinical and experimental design.
• For a Director II, MD or PhD in Biological Sciences and 10+ years of experience in clinical and experimental design as well as 5+ years in leadership.
• Demonstrated ability to build novel experimental designs that drive strong business impact (enable decisions, influence agency, answer key questions).
• Highly collaborative and genuinely enjoys working hand‑in‑hand in a team environment to develop solutions that advance Abb Vie’s overall mission.
• Demonstrated research background with proven track record of building on foundational work to advance projects to a resolute finish.
• Experienced in identifying creative solutions for hard‑to‑solve challenges.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously; experience managing projects within a complex matrixed organization.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills—can build presentation materials to influence all levels of the organization and help the team turn ideas into reality.
• Good commercial, entrepreneurial, and innovative thinking, comfortable with ambiguity.
• Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure balanced risk assessments are made.

• 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…