Director, Patient Services Marketing & Strategy - Specialty

Director, APS Marketing & Strategy – Specialty Portfolio

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.

The Director, APS Marketing & Strategy – Specialty Portfolio leads Abb Vie Patient Services strategy and cross-functional execution across the Specialty portfolio. This role shapes and optimizes patient support strategies that help patients start, stay, and succeed on therapy while advancing portfolio priorities, improving operational performance, and ensuring disciplined financial stewardship.

The leader partners with brand teams, APS leadership, field teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to evolve patient support programs, care models, launch plans, and measurement strategies across multiple specialty assets and lifecycle stages. Success requires portfolio thinking, strong marketing and strategy capability, and the ability to influence within a complex matrixed environment.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the strategic APS partner to Specialty brand teams, representing APS in integrated planning forums and aligning patient support strategy to portfolio and brand objectives.
• Lead development, optimization, and lifecycle management of specialty patient support programs and care models, including launch support, program redesign, and priority initiatives.
• Translate patient, provider, market, brand, access, field, operations, and analytics insights into effective support strategies.
• Lead annual and long-range planning for the Specialty portfolio.
• Develop and implement KPIs, dashboards, and measurement plans.
• Lead business reviews and senior leadership updates.
• Drive cross-functional alignment and strengthen collaboration.
• Act as a thought partner to brand and APS leaders.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, patient services, strategy, marketing, or related commercial functions.
• Demonstrated experience in portfolio strategy, commercialization, patient support, launch planning, or cross-functional leadership.
• Experience working across multiple brands or therapeutic areas in a matrixed organization.
• Strong business acumen, financial understanding, analytical capability.
• Experience with patient support programs, access/reimbursement, care models, or the specialty pharmacy ecosystem preferred.
• Strong communication, presentation, executive presence, relationship-building, and change leadership skills.
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, complexity, and competing demands.

Leadership

Competencies:

• Portfolio-minded and enterprise-oriented
• Strategic, operationally grounded, and financially disciplined
• Strong cross-functional collaborator, influencer, and change leader
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, complexity, and competing priorities
• Results-driven with strong accountability and resource stewardship

Additional Information:

• 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 the posted range.
  
  This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Abb Vie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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