Associate Director, Marketing Strategy & Communications Lead – Psychiatry

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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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

This role may be based in either Florham Park, NJ, or Lake County, IL.

The Associate Director, Psychiatry Marketing Strategy and Communications Lead will report directly to the Head of HCP Marketing and be responsible for the following: 

• Partner with the HCP Marketing Directors to drive the framing and communication of the marketing strategy across the IBT and to senior leadership  
• Marketing liaison on all salesforce initiatives-communications, sales meeting coordination, Pulse Team field feedback calls, and sales training. 
• Build positive and collaborative working relationships with HCP Marketing leads, Sales leadership, Sales Training, and Regulatory/Legal teams to maximize the impact of psychiatry product tactics, programs, and messaging. 
• Demonstrate the ability to lead without authority, while building a collaborative, integrated approach across the neuroscience therapeutic area.  
• To support program implementation, the Associate Director must be comfortable with prescription data analytics and partner closely with both Market Research and Analytics (MABI) and Field Force Effectiveness (FFE) teams. 

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies:

• Demonstrates the ability to communicate ideas & make the complex easy for others to understand. 
• Works collaboratively and proactively, maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills, with a demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy.  
• Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functional partners outside of immediate team. 
• Self-starter, learns fast, and quickly grasps the essence of scientific, marketing, and sales concepts, and can change course rapidly where required 
• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills 
• Experience working within matrix-based teams and project management to rapidly implement growth programs 
• Executes highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners and is visibly inclusive and transparent. 
• Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy. 
• Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel 
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with launch, &/or on-market commercial teams, preferred.    

Leadership Skills: For this role, we're looking for a leader who is:  

• Excellence Focused; Optimistic; Open and Authentic 

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Proven marketing experience with increased proficiency in all marketing skills.
• Previous cross franchise/cross channel marketing experience preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD)  
• Prior medical, clinical, medical communications, or HCP AOR experience in psychiatry and psychopharmacology strongly preferred 
• Minimum 7 years of pharmaceutical industry or pharmaceutical industry support experience required, at least 2 years of experience with field sales strongly preferred 
• Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organization levels and disciplines, including executive leadership 

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. ​

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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