Director, Innovation - Medical Affairs and HEOR

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.

The Director of Innovation, Medical Affairs and Health Economics Outcomes Research (MA HEOR) will lead a team dedicated to the evolution of the MA HEOR business model. This individual will partner with MA&HEOR leaders to bring innovative solutions to ensure the organization achieves its maximal impact of enabling patients to live longer, better quality lives. This individual will be responsible for bringing innovative solutions to evolving external/healthcare landscapes, while also leading the MA HEOR organization through advancement with its internal processes and resourcing approaches.   The Director of Innovation’s team will partner across all business units to identify opportunities and execute projects to advance ways of working and outcomes. The Director of Innovation will report directly to the VP, Strategy & Innovation, MA HEOR.

• Builds and leads a team serving as an innovation hub to drive MA HEOR strategic evolution. Inspire a ‘fail fast’ mindset while constantly communicating best practices and opportunities to scale across the organization.


• Fosters end-to-end innovation on MA HEOR strategies, with internal focus on process, resourcing, governance, and external focus on the evolving healthcare landscape, evidence generation, launch readiness (not an exhaustive list)


• Monitor, understand, and prioritize external trends of relevance to the MA HEOR business, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond. Identify opportunities and deliver strategic initiatives that will address mission-critical questions and position AbbVie MA HEOR for future success


• Lead strategic discussions on external trends, competitor strategies and potential disruptors, and translate these to strategic choices


• Serves as a strategic partner to MA HEOR and other senior cross functional leaders across major transformational initiatives to define objectives, scope, clear deliverables and workstreams, ensuring capable delivery within the team


• Oversee delivery of individual modules within complex, cross-functional initiatives, including, driving the problem-solving process and supporting research and analytics, and distilling pragmatic recommendations for management consideration


• Facilitates identification, evaluation, and implementation of novel tools and technologies that can be employed to improve or accelerate internal and external ways of working


• Leverage sophisticated analytical mindset to identify opportunities and optimize process, governance and procedures to drive measurable impact and elevated business outcomes


• In collaboration with relevant functions, drives internal and external stakeholder assessments in order to anticipate changes in the external environment (e.g. regulatory trends, changing payer environment), and to understand the patient journey and levers to improve outcomes



 
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Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day),Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

• Bachelors or equivalent degree required.   Advanced degree (PharmD, 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 or functional areas


• Recognized team player with proven facilitative leadership skills in a cross-functional global team environment.   Proven performance in a matrix environment with ability to influence and align stakeholders


• Excellent interpersonal skills.   Ability to interact externally and internally to support business strategy


• Strong people leadership skills, with the ability to provide timely and direct feedback and motivate a team behind a common vision


• Strong analytical skills.   Recognized ability to evaluate complex issues from multiple perspectives to ensure that balanced risk assessments are made


• Demonstrated experience in implementing organizational change through innovative approaches


• Excellent oral and written communication skills.



 
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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.

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