AbbVie

Associate Director, Thought Leader Liaison

AbbVie$130K — $155K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required; master's degree preferred
  • Previous hematology experience
  • Exceptional presentation and interpersonal skills
  • Proven track record for meeting or exceeding goals
  • In-depth knowledge of oncology commercial issues
  • Required regular business travel, by air or car
  • Ability to work effectively in a remote setting while traveling

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain relationships with oncology hematology experts
  • Communicate external expert insights across leadership and teams
  • Plan and execute marketing consultancy arrangements
  • Support congress-related activities and initiatives
  • Collaborate with internal cross-functional partners
  • Ensure speaker bureau is trained and aligned with needs
  • Foster a culture of compliance
  • Execute national and regional advisory boards
  • Refine the Venclexta External Expert Engagement strategy
  • Contribute to regional strategy formation with partners

Benefits

  • Paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Eligibility for long-term incentive programs
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Associate Director - Thought Leader Liaison, Venclexta - South reports to the Director, Thought Leader Strategy.

The Associate Director - Thought Leader Liaison, Venclexta - South is a remote-based, hybrid role supporting Venclexta. Candidates should reside within the territory (within reasonable distance of a major airport). The South territory includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. TLL will focus on engaging and maintaining relationships with leading hematology external experts across the assigned territory to provide critical insights that shape strategy and tactics. Additionally, this role partners with fellow commercial team members, agencies, legal, compliance, medical and co-marketing colleagues to successfully drive the business forward. TLL must demonstrate the ability to lead without authority and contribute to building a collaborative and integrated commercial team.

Key Responsibilities Include:
  • Develop, implement and maintain accountability for interactions and feedback with national and regional oncology hematology external experts
  • Ensure external expert perspectives are shared and considered consistently across leadership and the Integrated Brand Team
  • Manage planning and execution of marketing consultancy arrangements
  • Engage in congress related engagement activities nationally, including supporting and executing any ongoing TL strategies and tactics
  • Partner with internal cross functional partners including, and not limited to, sales, marketing, medical affairs, legal, compliance, and, and managed care
  • Collaborate with brand to ensure speaker bureau fully staffed, trained, and aligned to educational needs
  • Ensure a culture of compliance
  • Develop and execute national and regional advisory boards in collaboration with brand team and co-promotion partners
  • Partner to develop, refine, and execute and the Venclexta External Expert Engagement strategy
  • Contribute to the formation of regional strategies with cross-functional partners
  • Participate in cross-functional project teams and/or supporting the Marketing Team and overall franchise


Qualifications

Basic Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree required; master's degree preferred
  • Previous hematology experience
  • Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, collaboration and data discussion skill sets
  • Proven track record for consistently meeting or exceeding qualitative and /or quantitative goals
  • Proven & thorough knowledge of commercial issues associated with highly competitive oncology therapeutic area
  • Business travel, by air or car, is regularly required
  • Position is remote based. This role requires the ability to work effectively while engaged in travel and delivering timely results

Preferred:
  • 5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic or biotech industry, specifically in oncology
  • Previous experience with hematology thought leaders with demonstrated access to key accounts
  • Previous experience developing productive insight collection activities with top tier External Experts
  • Previous field management, marketing, or commercial experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
  • Health care certification/qualification (e.g. APP, RN, RPh, other)
  • Advanced degree in life sciences
  • Thorough knowledge of Oncology market
  • Launch experience in pharmaceutical marketing or sales


Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8-hour day)

Travel
Yes, up to 75 % of the time

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 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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50,000 employees
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$288.5 billion
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Net Income
$4.6 billion
Founded
2013
5 Year Trend
+17%
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