Director Strategic Insights - AI Strategy

Director, Competitive & Strategic Insights - AI Strategy

• Full-time
• Salary Min: $160,500
• Salary Max: $305,000
• Workday Global Grade: 21

Competitive & Strategic Insights (CSI) focuses on competitive intelligence for Abb Vie’s industry‑leading pipeline and R&D areas of interest. The team drives best‑in‑class CI, partnering closely with Asset Teams, TA and R&D leadership. CSI informs and influences Abb Vie strategy across multiple stakeholders and communicates intelligence and insights to guide decision‑making. The Director, CSI AI Lead will drive enterprise‑wide CI capabilities through AI and additional technologies in partnership with cross‑functional partners.

The role is high‑visibility, high‑impact, and requires a strategic, proactive leader who thrives at the intersection of science, technology, and collaboration.

• Own the enterprise integration strategy across competitive intelligence systems and data sources and ensure stakeholders have a single version of truth.
• Lead the business strategy for integrating CI platforms, syndicated data sources, internal repositories, AI agents, dashboards, knowledge graphs, and external vendor capabilities into the ODIN ecosystem.
• Evaluate existing and emerging CI, market intelligence, syndicated data, social intelligence, literature, patent, clinical trial, and pipeline intelligence tools to determine integration, continued use, rationalization, or retirement.
• Partner with BTS to define business requirements for CI knowledge graph and agent‑enabled workflows, ensuring AI agents are grounded in approved, traceable, and validated intelligence sources.
• Lead ODIN business governance forums, including intake, prioritization, roadmap trade‑offs, executive updates, capability decisions, and cross‑functional alignment across CSI, Commercial, BTS, APEX, CBSO, R&D, and enterprise functions.
• Support documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high‑value ODIN use cases; maintain a use‑case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned versus realized value across program phases.
• Enable enterprise CI AI capabilities, partner closely with CI leads, BTS, analytics, and platform stakeholders to align feasibility, timing, and execution—without owning coding or engineering tasks directly.
• Translate CI questions into compelling, intuitive visual experiences that surface patterns, risks, and opportunities across AI platforms, including ODIN.
• Track, maintain, and report on platform KPIs, adoption metrics, user engagement, and feedback, providing regular updates to business owners to inform rollout and prioritization decisions.
• Drive and implement communication and training for ODIN and additional AI CI resources at the enterprise level, and across the BUs.

• Bachelor’s degree in health/life sciences required; an advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) in Life Sciences/Medicine is preferred.
• 7–9 years of experience in Pharma/Biotech with 3–5+ years in CI or market research in Pharma/Biotech pipeline assets; immunology clinical development/regulatory experience preferred.
• Expertise with CI methodologies.
• AI & Technical Fluency:
  Ability to engage credibly with AI/ML partners and internal experts, translate technical concepts into business context.
• Proven track record of defining and executing end‑to‑end product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for AI‑enabled CI capabilities, including making trade‑off decisions across business value, feasibility, and timing.
• Familiarity with competitive intelligence platforms (e.g., Evaluate Pharma, Cortellis, Pat Base, Citeline).
• Strong oral, facilitation, and written communication skills; ability to distill complex information into concise and impactful messages and communications; PPT proficiency.
• Ability to interact effectively with/present to all levels of the organization; stakeholder management and executive presence.

• Business Technology Services, Commercial, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, Innovation, Transformation, TA Strategy.

• Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick leave).
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• 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.

US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation may request accommodations.