Job 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  . Follow @abbvie on  X ,  Facebook ,  Instagram ,  YouTube ,  LinkedIn and  Tik Tok .

Job Description

Headquartered in the Chicagoland Area, AbbVie is a global research-based biopharmaceutical company formed in 2013. The Company's mission is to create an innovation-driven, patient-focused specialty biopharmaceutical company capable of achieving sustainable top-tier performance through outstanding execution and a consistent stream of innovative new medicines. With market leadership in therapeutic areas that serve millions of patients worldwide, AbbVie employs more than 50,000 colleagues. We are proud to be recognized by Great Place to Work and Fortune as #3 on the World’s Best Workplaces list. This is our eighth consecutive year on this prestigious list of the top 25 employers.

Known for consistently achieving business performance while having the internal reputation of delivering one of the strongest cultures for its colleagues, the U.S. Specialty organization is a diverse family of people and products committed to improving the lives of the 8 million patients we serve. U.S. Specialty has an excellent opportunity for a strategic and results-driven Director of Strategic Planning and Communications (“SPC”) leader to serve as a trusted business advisor and “right-hand” to our U.S. Specialty Vice President (“the VP”). Leveraging strong knowledge and insights of the priorities of the eight businesses comprising U.S. Specialty, this role provides critical support to the VP in decision-making, alignment, translating strategy into actionable execution that accelerate organizational goals, change management, and executive communications. Operating at the intersection of business strategy, leadership, and communications, the Director SPC plays a pivotal role in optimizing leadership effectiveness by navigating complex relationships, influencing leaders and other stakeholders without direct authority, fostering collaboration, and driving & measuring organizational success.

Key Responsibilities Include (but not necessarily limited to):

• Own U.S. Specialty’s Strategic Planning and Business Operating Rhythms: Develop business planning, agenda-setting, preparation of and facilitation for leadership meetings, and governance to ensure cross-team coordination and strong business performance. Connects the dots and opportunities across U.S. Specialty and the broader enterprise, leveraging this intelligence to drive goal execution. Lead the day-to-day rhythms of tracking goals, meeting minutes and follow-up’s, and roadblock identification while identifying how to bring colleagues and/or teams together to unblock.
• Optimize VP Effectiveness: Streamline decision-making, manage VP’s priorities and commitments, and provide strategic counsel to maximize the VP's focus and effectiveness on driving business outcomes. The Director SPC will have a strong pulse of the organization by knowing the most important business drivers across both U.S. Specialty and the broader enterprise at any given time. Providing regular briefings to the VP, the Director SPC will be a strategic air-traffic controller applying strong judgment to identify mission-critical work.
• Lead Internal Communications: Build, author, project-plan, and deliver executive communication strategies and activities (e.g., bios, speaking engagements, videos, pan-U.S. Specialty initiatives, etc.) that enhance alignment, reinforce values, foster collaboration, and increase transparency across the organization. Align with other Communicators across the enterprise, modeling All for One AbbVie behaviors. Indirectly lead franchise SPCs’ development, ensuring vertical and horizontal alignment across U.S. Specialty.
• Lead Special Projects: Deliver high-stakes, time-bound initiatives to drive organizational results or improve organizational effectiveness that might otherwise fall through the cracks
• Lead the Office of the VP, which includes an Associate Director of Communications, an Associate Director of Commercial Capabilities, and an Administrative Assistant
• Proactively anticipate and engage with U.S. Specialty leadership and matrix partners in solution-planning for strategy gaps or operational improvements that optimize our business execution
• Lead our AbbVocates team in prioritizing organizational initiatives that advance colleague engagement, strengthen high-performing teams, and amplify AbbVie’s culture 
• Partner with Finance in owning and managing the VP’s budget

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree Required; advanced degree preferred (e.g., MBA)

• Minimum 10+ years of successful and relevant leadership experience required
• Effective blend of High IQ and High EQ, with backgrounds in Commercial, Strategy, Management Consulting, Communications, or senior Operations roles preferred
• Strong knowledge of the pharma industry including trends and issues as they relate to AbbVie
• Advanced project management capabilities leveraging tools, technologies, and systems that drive clear and simple processes
• Demonstrated success in examining business environments, learning fast, grasping the essence, and executing with agility and resilience in response to opportunities and/or shifting priorities
• Proven ability to shape narratives, craft compelling messages, and represent leadership in both internal and external forums across diverse stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills that build relationships across a matrixed organization, foster alignment, inspire trust, and enable higher performance
• Exceptional communication (written, verbal, presentation) skills and executive presence
• Raises the bar in performance, embraces the ideas of others, and manages innovation to reality
• Proactive problem-solver with proven ability to stay one step ahead

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​

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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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