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

The Director, Global Patient & Community Partnerships- Immunology will bring strategic connectivity across functions to enable a more holistic, strategic approach to patient advocacy within our Immunology business.  The Director will be responsible for working with cross-functional stakeholders to advance enterprise strategies for patient advocacy and community engagement for priority disease areas within their therapeutic area; cultivating meaningful, impactful relationships with patient advocacy groups starting early in the R&D process and throughout the lifecycle to help incorporate and amplify the patient voice across AbbVie, and supporting a consistent and one AbbVie approach to engaging the patient advocacy community.  The Director will report to the Senior Director, Global Patient & Community Partnerships in Corporate Affairs.

Responsibilities include:

Lead the enterprise-wide strategy for patient advocacy and community partnerships for the therapeutic area, collaborating in a ‘hub and spoke’ model with functions to enable a more strategic, enterprise approach to patient advocacy and community engagement across the lifecycle; foster better visibility and connectivity among functions to better align and share best practices and insights, and to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of patient advocacy and community stakeholders to support mutual goals.Collaborate with internal functions to develop and align on a comprehensive patient engagement plan for specific disease areas, enabling broad understanding of engagement goals, enhancing strategic engagement and improving visibility across functions to reduce redundancies.Constantly evaluate opportunities to engage the patient advocacy and community voice across the lifecycle; help to facilitate an inclusive, patient centric approach to patient advocacy focus groups and advisory boards and other mechanism to enable diverse and inclusive insights.Conduct comprehensive landscape assessments for select disease areas to inform engagement strategies, and continuously evaluate the global ecosystem of patient groups to identify new partnership opportunities, supporting functional engagement and business prioritiesBuild and nurture long-term, meaningful relationships with patient advocacy groups, community-based organizations, and others that are based on mutual trust, respect, transparency and shared goals.Foster an environment of learning through the facilitation of best practice and insight sharing from across functions and geographies to ensure insights from patient advocacy and community engagement are systematically embedded across the lifecycle, fostering patient-centric decision making.Support functional capability-building for patient group engagement where needed, including facilitating training sessions to ensure consistent, compliant, and effective interactions with patient groups.
Qualifications
Minimum of 10 years of experience in healthcare/biopharma in patient advocacy, patient engagement, corporate affairs, community engagement, or other patient-focused rolesDemonstrated expertise in developing and executing insight-driven, patient-centric, and measurable patient advocacy strategiesVery strong business acumen, strategic and critical thinking; creative and solutions orientedStrong track record of building and maintaining meaningful, trust-based relationships with patient advocacy communities, demonstrating deep respect, understanding and appreciation for the patient voice and equityStrong understanding of the expansive opportunities for patient advocacy organizations to be engaged throughout the lifecycle, and the value of patient advocacy and where engagement and insights can have most impactDemonstrated ability to work strategically and effectively across functions in a highly matrixed organization, to influence without authority to advance towards mutual goalsStrong planning, execution, and project management skills and strong interpersonal skills to quickly build rapport and credibility with AbbVie leaders across functionsStrong communications, critical thinking and interpersonal skills, strong ability to influence without authority, the ability to speak and write persuasively and with clarity, strong organizational skills, flexibility, and resourcefulness and creativity, and ability to work collaboratively in a fluid organizational environment.Must be an individual who works well in a team environment and enjoys working in a collegial, yet highly demanding culture. Must be able to work collaboratively with senior business leaders and other internal stakeholders across the enterprise.
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​

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