Director, Strategy, Analytics, and Business Insights

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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.

Abb Vie is building an industry leading data ecosystem that drives insight generation and operational efficiencies to deliver medicines to our patients safer and faster. We are looking for motivated leaders with expertise of insights, analytics and research to join our team to support our data-driven organization.

Reporting to the Director II of Strategy, Analytics & Business Insights, the Director of Strategy, Analytics and Business Insights will function as a key partner with the Clinical Development Operations (CDO) Leadership and the Extended Leadership team, as well as other functions across R&D proactively reviewing and identifying internal and external trends to drive business value and actionable insights. The SABI Director monitors these trends and identifies underlying leading / lagging clinical trial performance indicators, ultimately creating fit-for-purpose recommendations to senior leadership.

Requires frequent interaction with Sr. Leadership and cross-functional management to influence key decisions that impact Abb Vie’s ecosystem. Will lead critical cross-functional initiatives that will enable the transformation of Clinical Development Operations. This role will also serve as the Chief of Staff to the Head of Clinical Acceleration and Performance serving as a key strategist to ensure delivery of the function’s most important objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with CDO VPs, TA Heads, Sr. Directors to proactively identify trending and review analytics to drive action steps, while leading cross-functional teams
• Communicate context, insights and objective analysis to CDO LT and other R&D leaders throughout the organization to support decision making.
• Support CDO LT in planning, organizing, implementing, and maintaining strategies and initiatives
• Present key findings and insights at executive leadership meetings and follow up with additional analysis as required, anticipating/identifying issues that could affect timelines or quality and develops options and solutions
• With input from relevant stakeholders, maintain and evolve existing processes for gathering, summarizing, and distributing relevant industry benchmarks / trends relevant to Abb Vie’s pipeline.
• Develop reporting and new ways to measure trends to monitor Clinical Study KPIs, as well as leading / lagging indicators on improvement projects that support the transformation of becoming a data-centric organization.
• Provides strategic direction across system owners, ensuring integrity of the data and the systems used to support Abb Vie’s clinical trials
• Anticipates emerging technology/methodology needs that can support the utilization of our data to produce efficiencies and create new value proposition
• Conduct ad-hoc short-term consulting projects to answer critical questions from leadership
• Ensures consistency on insight generation and analysis across therapeutic areas; however, customize as per the nuances across TAs

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or business field in statistics, mathematics with previous experience working directly in a clinical setting
• 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical with knowledge of clinical trials, clinical trials process and technology, analytics-related; fewer years of experience will be considered if the candidate(s) have advanced degrees (PhD, MBA, Masters of Statistics preferred)
• Excellent interpersonal, problem-solving and analytical skills. Demonstrated history of successful execution in a fast-paced environment and in managing multiple priorities effectively
• Strong effective communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate analytical…