Director Medical Affairs Impact, Insights, and Care Gaps

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. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, You Tube, Linked In and Tik Tok.

As a pivotal leader within Medical Affairs and Health Impact (MHI), the Director of Impact, Insights, and Care Gaps will spearhead the evolution of global medical impact, insights and care gaps ensuring alignment with Abb Vie's long-term vision and strategic aspirations. This role is responsible for the strategic innovation and execution of impact capabilities that measure and track the medical impact across MHI.

The Director will ensure agile, transparent and impactful synthesis of insights to strategically inform therapeutic area advancements and foster dynamic stakeholder collaborations. The leader will develop, implement and scale Care Gap capabilities to enhance asset and engagement strategies to advance the standards of care for patients.

• Strategically establish, scale, and integrate the Care Gap model to enhance asset and engagement strategies. Utilize real-world data in compliance with regulations to identify gaps in standards of care across Abb Vie's portfolio. Leverage insights from these care gaps to guide asset and engagement strategies while closely monitoring MHI's impact, with the overarching aim to elevate standards of care for patients.
• Lead the innovation of medical impact metrics that align with the broader vision and strategic pillars of MHI, emphasizing patient impact and long-term aspirations.
• Oversee the measurement and tracking of performance against impact-focused metrics, providing strategic insights to drive MHI and enterprise excellence and informed decision-making.
• Lead the creation and management of holistic MHI dashboard content, collaborating with PMBO and TA strategy teams to ensure consistent and strategic metric tracking.
• Transform impact tracking from static reporting to a dynamic, real-time, dashboard-centric approach, enhancing agility and responsiveness.
• Create industry‑leading impact worldwide measurements for MHI leveraging real‑world data analytics and scalable key performance indicators to compliantly demonstrate impact of medical education, evidence generation and strategic scientific exchange.
• Integrate impact metrics into strategic pathways, interpreting insights and trends to guide future strategy for TA strategy and field teams.
• Drive compliant and collaborative engagement with cross‑functional stakeholders, optimizing the use of enterprise‑wide platforms, data, and processes.
• Shape and implement the MHI insights strategy, partnering with Data Link to ensure efficient, rapid synthesis of insights, and closing the feedback loop to TAs and partners.
• Explore and leverage emerging technologies to automate insight synthesis, defining frameworks for data‑informed decision‑making.
• Develop systematic approaches for collecting, execution, and measuring insights to assess MHI’s strategic impact.
• Advance data visualization methodologies to effectively communicate insights and strategic narratives.

• Minimum years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry – 15+ with Bachelors, 12+ with Masters, 10+ with PhD. 7 years in Medical Affairs preferred.
• Demonstrated proficiency in leading cross‑functional, global teams with a focus on strategic impact and innovation.
• In‑depth knowledge of digital analytics including emerging trends in digital media, data management, and analytics technologies.
• Strong analytical and strategic reasoning skills combined with a deep business acumen and innovative problem‑solving abilities.
• Comprehensive understanding of the pharmaceutical landscape, including key drivers of medical and HEOR impact.
• Exceptional communication skills, capable of articulating complex concepts in a…