Associate Director, Intercontinental Business Insights

Job Description

The AD, Intercontinental Business Insights is to be a visionary leader driving the acceleration of insights generation and data management across Intercontinental, with a verticalized responsibility from area to affiliate. Abbvie Future Fit programs includes Winning With Data as a core capability. This role is critical to achieve the transformation of the company into a data‑driven organization. The AD, Business Insights will lead and champion the development of analytic solutions that have a direct impact on business decision‑making, harmonize KPIs, and optimize performance tracking through innovative automation technologies.

The role will also be responsible to accelerate and harness AI as an innovation technology into the area business operations.

• Leadership and Strategic Vision: Lead the integration of WWD capability into the Intercontinental Area HQ by crafting a forward‑thinking vision that aligns with business goals. Define analytic strategies and performance dashboards that guide critical decision‑making processes for Area Commercial, Finance, Market Access, Medical, and HR stakeholders.
• Ownership and Accountability: Take full ownership of the creation, deployment, and optimization of analytical solutions aligned with the International WWD operating framework. Drive business impact by ensuring that solutions are practical and scalable across Intercontinental. Lead KPI definition, use case scope, and visualization requirements to maintain standardized and efficient operations.
• Verticalized Responsibility: Own and coordinate the business insights agenda end‑to‑end across the Intercontinental Area and affiliates, ensuring priorities, capabilities, KPI standards, and analytic solutions are aligned from Area strategy through local execution.
• Proactive Partnership: Cultivate strong partnerships with Area Commercial, Finance, Market Access, and other critical teams. Collaborate and facilitate cross‑functional synergy to ensure that business insights drive substantial value and transformative change.
• Global and Affiliate Engagement: Lead strategic engagement with Global initiatives, advocating for Intercontinental perspectives and ensuring seamless rollout and adoption of insights initiatives. Promote the sharing and reapplication of best practices to elevate capabilities across Intercontinental affiliates.
• Area AI Ambassador: Champion the acceleration of AI usage within the Area team, focusing on integrating AI technologies to boost efficiency and foster innovation. Lead initiatives that educate and empower teams to harness AI in their operations, ultimately contributing to a transformative business environment.

Skills and Requirements:

• Advanced proficiency in data management, analytics, and enterprise BI tools (Foundry).
• Demonstrated experience in leadership roles with a passion for decision‑making and achieving results.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a strong focus on influencing and negotiating at all levels of the organization.
• A proven track record of managing and implementing projects independently, emphasizing quality, urgency, and attention to detail.
• Good understanding of data science, AI, ML concepts and data privacy and regulatory frameworks.
• Interest in technology trends and application of technology to improve end user’s experience.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific or business field, statistics, mathematics.
• 10 years of experience in Marketing Analytics/Market Research or analytics‑related; fewer years of experience will be considered if the candidate(s) have advanced degrees (PhD, MBA, Masters of Statistics preferred).
• Extensive experience in data consulting or similar, designing BI, analytics and data related solutions, with a strong focus on driving strategic change and leading innovations in BI and analytics.
• In‑depth knowledge of the healthcare industry and pharmaceutical sector, with a focus on strategic planning and execution within a matrix environment.
• Strong familiarity with Abb Vie processes (e.g., brand planning and quantitative/qualitative market research) and a proven ability to integrate…