Job description
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 is committed to being an industry leader in accelerating the transformation of molecules to medicines to maximize the value for patients and AbbVie. To do so, we must drive establish solutions to enable early, timely and systematic integration of varied, global perspectives into strategic decision-making during the drug development process. The Director, Patient Inclusion sits within the Clinical Development Operations (CDO) organization. This role will report into the Director II, Patient Inclusion.
Responsibilities:
Enhance Patient Access & Integrate Global Patient Insights
- Develop business strategy for the creation of global disease area patient and care-partner councils in priority indications to enable direct access to patient voice across R&D
- Identify, develop and operationalize strategic business capabilities (e.g., insight integration, supplier sourcing, engagement frameworks) that advance trial equity ,to ensure clinical trial patients reflect the global and varied real work populations living with the disease, enhance participant experience, and improve feasibility.
- Work cross functionally to develop business strategy for integrating global patient insights into asset strategies to enhance patient access to clinical trials and ensure that AbbVie’s treatments appropriately address the varied needs of patients
Strategic Initiatives & Business Capability Development
- Lead the design and implementation of cross-functional strategic initiatives that embed inclusive patient engagement into R&D decision-making and enterprise processes.
- Serve as a strategic advisor and capability lead, ensuring that the Patient Inclusion function aligns with evolving enterprise priorities, regulatory guidance, and drug development milestones.
Enterprise Integration & Strategic Collaboration
- Serve as a strategic partner to R&D disease area teams, clinical operations, and enterprise strategy leads to ensure capabilities are actionable, scalable, and aligned to development priorities.
- Lead initiatives that assess and champion enterprise-wide adoption of inclusive practices through frameworks, tools, and platforms that democratize patient insights and improve strategic foresight.
- Integrate new capabilities developed within Patient Inclusion into business workflows by aligning with drug development milestones, governance structures, and therapeutic area priorities across the enterprise.
Operational Excellence & Regulatory Readiness
- Provide oversight for embedding patient engagement into the Pipeline Commercialization Model, with clear connection points to disease area strategy, program design, and launch readiness.
- Lead functional readiness related to new legal, regulatory, compliance and policy guidance, as it relates to standard operating procedures and policies related to clinical development
- Understand the evolving needs of the team, appropriately prioritizing demands, selecting appropriate solutions, tools and platforms to be deployed to drive executional excellence of patient engagement activities
- Partner with Senior Leadership on KPI development, progress tracking, and impact reporting to executive stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree required, Advanced degree is desirable.
- Minimum of 10 years + of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent
- 10 years+ of project management and people management (preferred)
- Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines required.
- Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment is desirable.
- Excellent collaborator and articulate communicator – easily build relationships across geographic locations and gains cross functional alignment.
- Ability to communicate persuasively with clarity, flexibility, and adaptability to changing requirements, resourcefulness, and creativity
- Strategic thinker with excellent business and financial aptitude, very analytical and uses data to drive the business and continuous improvements.
Additional Information
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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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