Company Description

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.

Job Description

AbbVie’s Digital Science Team is a novel capability team with a unique blend of medical knowledge, digital technologies, regulatory and data science expertise that lead the development and validation of digital health solutions to objectively measure aspects of diseases, detect treatment benefits, unlock new value for our portfolio, and drive the future of the business. As a part of AbbVie’s Digital Science Team, you will have the opportunity to shape the future of medicine development with Digital Health solutions. The Director of Digital Health Innovation and Capabilities plays a vital strategic leadership role within the Digital Science Team. In this role, you will lead and optimize Digital Health Technology (DHT) search and evaluation, as well as manage DHT vendors, to support digital strategies in drug development. These efforts help bring medicines to market faster and elevate the standard of care. Furthermore, you will oversee and manage digital programs with value metrics and resource forecasting to continuously foster the value of digital solutions in transforming drug development for AbbVie and our patients.

Responsibility:

Collaborate closely with Digital Health Strategists and other stakeholders to ensure the best-in-class and fit-for-purpose DHT is identified and evaluated with rigor to meet the scientific, regulatory, operational, quality, and strategic requirements.
Deliver DHT S&E results to strategists and R&D wide stakeholders in quality and timely manner. Provide DHT subject expertise input in various internal meetings when needed
Review existing S&E processes, standardize, and optimize it with GenAI to accelerate the speed of the delivery
Manage DHT Catalog and vendors relationships, establishing strategic partnerships when necessary
Collaborate within Digital Science Team and manage multiple digital projects with people and project management skills, e.g. create project plans, value/KPI trackers, monitor scope, budget, timeline, and report milestones/progress
Stay abreast of new and evolving regulations, guidelines and policies related to digital health and clinical development
Responsible for mentoring and coaching junior and/or supportive matrix team members and ensure the proper methodologies and scientific rigor are applied to deliver high-quality S&E results
Identify business needs and develop guidance, SOPs, and good practice documents. Support/Create training, workshops, and educational webinars to help establish a knowledge base of digital health technologies and digital endpoint development and strategy within AbbVie.
Establish external presence and thought leadership in the field of DHT S&E, and maintain healthy relationships with various players within broader digital health ecosystem, including peers, vendors, global agencies, participate in peer-review journal publications, presentations at global congresses
Help influence external stakeholders such as regulatory agencies, HTAs, advocacy groups, consortia, industry trade organizations, and investigators

Qualifications

*This position will be required to sit on-site 3 days / week in the Lake County, IL area

*This position will be hired based on the qualifications below:

Director, Digital Health Technologies (DHT) Search & Evaluation & Operation

Qualifications:

Masters or higher degree in technology, engineering, data science, healthcare, medical & regulatory science or related field with at least 8-10 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry, MBA or consulting experience a plus
Experience in building business case, value-driven mindset, know-how ROI analyses
Strong knowledge about the regulatory requirements around DHT in clinical development applications, and critical success factors and obstacles impacting clinical trials and outcomes
Big picture orientation and understanding the interplay of drug development, digital health, data science, regulations and the changing pharmaceutical and healthcare environments
Strong ability to collaborate and influence across functions in a highly matrixed organization
Self-motivated, organized, can-do attitude, collaborative, open-minded, excellent time-management
Expert communication in verbal, written, slide-making, presentation skills
Experience managing and developing talent

Associate Director, Digital Health Technologies (DHT) Search & Evaluation & Operation

Masters or higher degree in technology, engineering, data science, healthcare, medical & regulatory science or related field with at least 6-10 years of relevant experience in pharma or medical device industry, MBA or consulting experience a plus

Experience in building business case, value-driven mindset, know-how ROI analyses

Strong knowledge about the regulatory requirements around DHT in clinical development applications, and critical success factors and obstacles impacting clinical trials and outcomes

Big picture orientation and understanding the interplay of drug development, digital health, data science, regulations and the changing pharmaceutical and healthcare environments

Strong ability to collaborate and influence across functions in a highly matrixed organization

Self-motivated, organized, can-do attitude, collaborative, open-minded, excellent time-management

Expert communication in verbal, written, slide-making, presentation skills

Experience managing and developing talent

Additional Information

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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Associate Director/Director, Digital Health Technologies (DHT) Search & Evaluation & Operation