Job DescriptionCompetitive & Strategic Insights (CSI) focuses on competitive intelligence for AbbVie's industry-leading pipeline and R&D areas of interest. The team strives to drive best-in-class Competitive Intelligence, partnering closely with Asset Teams, TA and Research & Development (R&D) leadership. CSI informs and influences AbbVie strategy according to the pipeline commercial operating model and in coordination across multiple stakeholders. CSI communicates intelligence and insights to the broader organization to influence strategy and decision-making.
The Director, CSI AI Lead will drive enterprise-wide CI capabilities through AI and additional technologies, in partnership with cross-functional partners (e.g. Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Commercial, etc.). In this role, you will also be a key business owner for ODIN, AbbVie's enterprise market and competitive intelligence platform, driving overall strategic direction and implementation. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a strategic, proactive leader who thrives at the intersection of science, technology, and collaboration.
Responsibilities: - Own the enterprise integration strategy across other competitive intelligence systems and data sources and ensure stakeholders have single version of truth. Lead the business strategy for integrating competitive intelligence platforms, syndicated data sources, internal repositories, AI agents, dashboards, knowledge graphs, and external vendor capabilities into the ODIN ecosystem.
- Across the CI portfolio of capabilities, evaluation of existing and emerging CI, market intelligence, syndicated data, social intelligence, literature, patent, clinical trial, and pipeline intelligence tools to determine whether they should be integrated into ODIN, continued as specialized platforms, rationalized, or retired.
- Partner with BTS to define business requirements for CI knowledge graph and agent-enabled workflows, ensuring AI agents are grounded in approved, traceable, and validated intelligence sources.
- Lead ODIN business governance forums, including intake, prioritization, roadmap trade-offs, executive updates, capability decisions, and cross-functional alignment across CSI, Commercial, BTS, Achieving Protocol Excellence (APEX), Corporate Business Strategy Office (CBSO), R&D, and enterprise functions
- Support documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned versus realized value across program phases.
- Enable enterprise CI AI capabilities, partner closely with CI leads, BTS, analytics, and platform stakeholders to align feasibility, timing, and execution-without owning coding or engineering tasks directly
- Translate competitive intelligence questions into compelling, intuitive visual experiences that surface patterns, risks, and opportunities across AI platforms, including ODIN
- Platform KPIs & Adoption Metrics: Track, maintain, and report on platform KPIs, adoption metrics, user engagement, and feedback, providing regular updates to business owners to inform rollout and prioritization decisions.
- Use Case Development & Benefits Tracking: Support the documentation, prioritization, and feasibility assessment of high-value ODIN platform use cases; maintain a use case inventory and benefits tracker capturing planned vs. realized value across program phases.
- Drive and implement communication and training for ODIN and additional AI CI resources at the enterprise level, and across the BUs
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in health/life sciences required; Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD) in Life Sciences/Medicine is preferred
- 7-9 years of experience in Pharma/Biotech with 3-5+ years of experience CI or market research in Pharma/Biotech pipeline assets; immunology clinical development/regulatory experience preferred
- Expertise with CI methodologies (preferred)
- AI & Technical Fluency: Ability to engage credibly with AI/ML partners and internal experts, translate technical concepts into business context
- Proven track record of defining and executing end-to-end product vision, roadmap, and prioritization for AI-enabled CI capabilities, including making trade-off decisions across business value, feasibility, and timing
- Familiarity with competitive intelligence platforms (e.g. Evaluate Pharma, Cortellis, PatBase, Citeline)
- Strong oral, facilitation, and written communication skills; ability to distill complex information synthesized into concise and impactful messages and communications; PPT proficiency
- Ability to interact effectively with/present to all levels of the organization; Stakeholder management and executive presence
Key Stakeholders: - Business Technology Services, Commercial, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, Innovation, Transformation, TA Strategy
Additional InformationApplicable 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 thisposting 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 anduntil paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.
