Senior Director, Immunology Strategy - Corporate Business Strategy Office

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.

To enable Abb Vie’s continued leadership in Immunology, the Senior Director, Immunology Strategy manages multiple complex Immunology therapeutic or disease areas plus enterprise-level initiatives, engages at the VP/executive level, sets broad strategic direction, and influences the highest levels of organizational leadership. The incumbent should bring a consulting background and demonstration of leadership within multiple roles preferably within Immunology.

The Senior Director, Immunology Strategy is responsible for building and leading teams that integrate expertise across Discovery, Development, Commercial, Corporate Business & Strategy, and other key functions to drive a variety of initiatives that include creating and executing long range Therapeutic Area (TA) strategies, addressing key above brand strategy questions, and integrating internal and external opportunity evaluations. Achieving these goals requires a combination of excellent collaborative skills to enable stakeholder management and alignment, broad strategic thinking, and an ability to drive complex analyses using a wide variety of data and insights to synthesize into actionable strategic outputs.

• Builds and leads a range of Multiple complex Immunology therapeutic or disease areas strategy and responsibility for large pan-TA initiatives cross-functional teams to drive Immunology and CBSO priorities
• Is accountable for the overall quality, rigor, and integration of wide range of strategic deliverables (including DAS and sLRP), spanning across multiple complex pillars. Also drivers key TA-wide initiatives—with full ownership of delivery, process excellence, and organizational alignment.
• Operates with high autonomy—drives strategic innovation and process improvement, guides and / or manages Associate Directors or Directors, and elevates the strategy team brand
• Fosters end-to-end innovation on Immunology/ enterprise-critical topics and projects through collaboration with TA Steering Committee (TASC), and other senior R&D and commercial focused leadership teams (including Asset Strategy Teams (AST) and early Brand Strategy Teams)
• Serves as strategic partner to R&D and Commercial senior leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and work streams
• Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how Abb Vie should prepare and/or response
• Help communicate and execute TA strategies across Abb Vie
• As appropriate, facilitate identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies and new clinical endpoints (e.g., digital or imaging tools, biomarkers, drug delivery systems, devices, and other platform technologies) that can be employed to improve or accelerate key strategic priorities
• In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment, and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes

• Bachelors or equivalent degree required. Advanced degree (Pharm
  
  D, PhD, MD, MBA) highly preferred.
• Minimum Years of Experience – 12+ with Bachelors, 10+ with Masters, 8+ with PhD
• Research /development, commercial, project management, portfolio management, business development, or related experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with a track record of expertise in one or more therapeutic areas
• Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross‑functional global team environment. Proven performance in a matrix environment…