Associate Director, International Brand Excellence

AbbVie'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 AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

Reporting directly to the International Director of Brand Excellence Capability, this pivotal role demands a blend of operational expertise, marketing competencies, adept project management, and finesse in engaging and influencing cross-functional stakeholders across International Brand Teams (INBTs), Areas, and Affiliate teams. Your primary focus will be on leading the Functional Plan and Launch Excellence process for the international organization.

Your role involves active collaboration and alignment with INBTs, Functional leadership, and Customer Excellence Capabilities to ensure a cohesive strategy-to-execution connection is reflected in Functional planning guidance and templates, and that Launch Excellence remains relevant and valuable to the business. Through robust stakeholder engagement, your responsibilities encompass gathering insights to drive the development of processes, systems, and tools supporting both Functional Plan and launch excellence, which may at times extend to overall capability enhancement.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead the Launch Excellence Framework:
   • Enhance and embed the Launch Excellence Framework as the universal cross-functional framework for brand launches, fostering standardized ways of working across International, Area, and Affiliate teams.
   • Maintain and optimize the Launch Readiness Tool and visualizations/dashboards to enable launch excellence, ensuring connectivity with all relevant organizational processes and tools.
   • Nurture the dynamic launch community to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organization.
2. Elevate Strategy-to-Execution Connectivity:
   • Play a pivotal role in implementing IMCO's new commercial operating model, with a primary emphasis on Launch Excellence.
   •    Elevate Functional and Tactical planning standards for International and Affiliate teams through digitalization to enable data-based decision making.
3. Streamline Processes and Enhance Agility:
   • Implement streamlined processes across various business functions to enhance agility and meet the diverse needs of Affiliate, Area, and Global cross-functional teams.
   • Customize existing processes and tools to ensure flexibility and adaptability for stakeholders, thereby driving increased adoption and effectiveness.

In summary, this role offers an exciting opportunity for those looking to make a real difference in a fast-paced setting. You'll collaborate with top professionals, shaping important strategies and experiencing personal and professional growth. The impact of your work is significant within our global organization. The experiences gained and relationships formed along the way are invaluable rewards for your efforts. This role is ideal for motivated individuals eager to excel and contribute meaningfully to our organization's success, ultimately benefiting the patients we serve.

• Over 3 years of experience brand management including launch of new assets, demonstrating the ability to drive significant business value.
• Proven track record in managing multiple core marketing responsibilities and business processes with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional groups and a natural inclination towards agility and process optimization to deliver continuous value.
• Affiliate experience and or International Brand team experience is required.
• People management such as district / business unit manager experience is a plus.

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. 

AbbVie is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.