Corporate Affairs Manager Adriatic

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 X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

• Corporate affairs responsbility for Slovenia and Croatia
• Lead and manage thrid party vendor in Slovenia acting on AbbVie behalf
• Lead and implement strategies at a cross-country level supporting AbbVie brands
• Lead, develop and execute on the external communication plan for Slovenia and Croatia in alignment with your Hungarian colleague
• Lead, develop and execute on the internal communication plan for Slovenia and Croatia in alignment with your Hungarian colleague
• Collect and provide information on the media development and patient advocacy changes and their impact on Abbvie
• Establish constructive and transparent communication with local and regional teams
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align priorities as part of planning process
• Support product launches, ongoing business interests and External affairs activities.
• Prepare the market for our innovations, reach maximum awareness at decision making bodies

Stakeholder engagement

• Be the partner of key media and patient advocacy stakeholders, media representatives, journalists and patient advocacy groups to build positive reputation for Abbvie AHA
• Identify and engage with influencers in the healthcare sector to promote Abbvie values and interests
• Generate stakeholder’s insights, analyze, and utilize Healthcare value drivers
• Engage relevant external stakeholders to deliver on agreed business strategies and priorities
• Manage relationship with the external vendors responsible for corporate affairs and patient advocacy
• Provide customized value proposition to internal and external stakeholders

• Relevant University degree
• Minimum 4-5 years direct experience in Public Affairs, or Patient Relations
• Language requirements Croatian & Slovenian & English
• Thorough understanding of the framework of the Slovenian and Croatian markets
• Strong track of building ethical, compliant and professional relationships with relevant stakeholders
• In-depth knowledge of CRO and SLO Public Affairs, and Patient relations requirements
• Excellent relation building skills
• Organizational, analytical and planning skills

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