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 developing inclusive clinical research programs. To do so, we must deliver customer-centric solutions with patients and sites that enable equitable trial access and enhanced trial experiences. The Senior Manager within the Diversity & Patient Inclusion team is responsible for driving the Diversity Action Plans, a framework required by the FDA for all clinical studies (PhIII) to  improve clinical trial diversity. With this role, you will be an important member of the team that will be driving change in the internal culture, behaviors, and ways of working to strengthen our understanding of disease disparities and the effects on clinical trial populations. This role will report into the Associate Director, Diversity & Patient Inclusion.  

Responsobilties:

Drive the strategic implementation of the action plan for AbbVie’s Clinical Trial Diversity approach across the portfolio  

Collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop process improvements to the clinical trial lifecycle to increase physician and patient diverse participation 

Influence leaders and peers to change internal behaviors to strengthen our understanding of disease disparities and the effects on diverse populations 

Create operational best practices that can be shared within and outside of the clinical teams 

Work with key stakeholders to develop and implement indication level strategies to increase diverse representation in clinical trials 

Manage key themes and best practices from external partner engagement activities to broaden base knowledge about clinical research in underrepresented communities and diverse investigators  

Develop impact strategy to drive metrics reporting for clinical trial diversity and inclusion strategies to demonstrate changes from baseline data  

Manage alignment between the EED&I program and AbbVie’s business strategy 

Serve as an SME on clinical trial diversity  

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in a scientific field required, Advanced degree is desirable. 

Minimum of 6-8 years of pharma-related/clinical research experience or equivalent 

6-8 years of study or project management  

Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines required. 

Ability to adapt to changing requirements, resourceful, and creative. 

Excellent collaborator and articulate communicator – Manages relationships across geographic locations and gains cross functional alignment. 

Knows how to translate a plan into a strategic action plan with associated KPIs to measure impact  

Strong medical writing preferred 

This a remote opportunity that can be anywhere in the US. 

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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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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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. 

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion.  It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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