Strategic Marketing Manager I​/II, Rheumatology - West Region

Overview

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.

CA, NV, WA, CO, UT

The Rheumatology Regional Marketing Manager (RMM) will work closely with multiple Abb Vie cross‑functional teams to ensure collaboration, alignment, and successful development of area marketing strategy and execution. This field‑based marketing role will be responsible for the optimization of national and regional marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with Annual Strategic Brand Plans.

• Act as the face of the Abb Vie Marketing team with External Experts, developing, implementing, and maintaining interactions for the purpose of insight generation within assigned geographies.
• Work within a team‑based environment to optimize brand performance across Abb Vie Rheumatology.

• Lead projects compliantly and effectively through the promotional review process to deliver high‑quality work in a timely fashion (meets deadlines) and ensure that regulatory guidelines and Abb Vie processes are followed.
• Manage strategy, execution and budgeting for national and regional conventions, External Expert consulting, advisory boards, and commercial peer‑to‑peer education programming.
• Continually apply knowledge and evaluate the effectiveness of key marketing tactics, making strategic recommendations to leadership on opportunities for brand optimization.
• Provide in‑depth insights based on the brand’s key business questions to drive brand performance.
• Lead partnerships with field leadership in assigned geography to optimize pull‑through of marketing strategies.
• Understand a geographical area’s competitive landscape, provider dynamics and competitive intelligence across the assigned geography.
• Coordinate the direction and deliverables of multiple external vendors and internal departments including Agency Partners, Marketing functions, Market Research, Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, and IT.

• Identify, build, and strengthen commercial relationships with External Experts, emerging leaders, and relevant patient and professional associations within assigned geography.
• Develop regional engagement plans for External Experts and ensure consistent tactical execution throughout the year to drive key marketing engagement.
• Demonstrate In‑depth understanding of external and internal drivers across multiple external stakeholder groups and appropriately connect Abb Vie’s Integrated Brand Teams on opportunities for collaboration based on aligned objectives, in compliance with industry standards.

• Mastery of verbal and non‑verbal communication and presentation skills, live and virtual, to effectively engage internal leadership and external stakeholders.
• Experience working in a collaborative working environment with integrated, cross‑functional teams by understanding priorities, key responsibilities and influencing without direct authority to drive results.
• Ability to navigate a field and headquarter based matrix organization, to impact and/or drive decision making across functions to drive strategy and brand performance.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment.
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Previous experience in sales, sales management, or marketing with at least 2 years of experience in Rheumatology/Immunology (preferred).
• Travel up to 60% of the time including evenings and weekends.
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment.
• Valid driver’s license:
  Ability to pass a pre‑employment drug screening test and meet safe driving requirements.

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith…