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Job Title: Associate Director, Commercial Strategy and Operations
Company Name: AbbVie
Location: Mettawa, IL
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 01/16/2026
Expire Date: 02/15/2026
Job Categories: Advertising/Marketing/Public Relations, Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical, Engineering, Finance/Economics, Human Resources, Sales, Science, Quality Control, Research & Development
Job Description
Associate Director, Commercial Strategy and Operations

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 atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.


Job Description

The Associate Director will helpdrive commercial strategy and business operations projects across the U.S. Specialty and Therapeutic Operations business, that includes Primary Care, Anti-Infectives, Womens Health, Gastrointestinal, Market Access, Patient Services, Digital Lab, Analytics, and Operations. Specific activities will include:

  • Strategic Excellence
    • Lead key commercial on-market strategic initiatives that capture additional value in short term (12-24 months) across franchises as well as launch readiness for late-stage assets
    • Lead key strategic initiatives across U.S. Specialty that identifies longer-term growth (e.g., Strategy LRP, BD assessment, Roadmap and Brand planning)
  • Operational Effectiveness
    • Executing opportunities to drive operational effectiveness within and across business units with key cross-functional partners, e.g., Finance and HR
    • Facilitate effective and collaborative cross-functional engagements to optimize AbbVie capabilities, e.g., with Integrated Brand Teams, Customer Experience, Medical, Compliance HEOR, Business Technology Solutions, etc.
    • Lead development of business and operational reviews to senior Commercial and Executive leadership

The Associate Director will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to identify and develop strategic and operational opportunities. Hence, this position will foster positive working relationships and be highly collaborative with each franchise brand teams, Finance, Medical, R&D, Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), and other cross franchise teams to gain input into developing strategic and operational projects. The Associate Director must demonstrate the ability to lead without authority, while building a collaborative, integrated approach across the organization

This position reports to the Director, Strategy and Operations, and will support data analytical execution, creating strong narratives on insights and communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership.


Qualifications

  • BA/BS required, MBA or advanced degree (PhD, MD) preferred
  • At least 3-5 years of professional industry experience with a successful track record in management consulting (at least 2+ years), pipeline management, or pharmaceutical marketing with strong analytical and strategic marketing skills.
  • Previous experience in pharma R&D, Corporate Strategy, Brand Management, and/or Marketing
  • Deep understanding and experience with primary care products both inline and in development.
  • Demonstrated excellent communication and presentation skills across a variety of organization levels and disciplines, including senior executives

Essential Skills, Experience, and Competencies

  • Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills as well as demonstrated ability to learn new disease states
  • Strong ability to communicate ideas & make the complex easy for others to understand.
  • Good financial acumen with an understanding of P&L drivers
  • Self-starter, and proactively driving projects toward successful completion
  • Experience with matrix-based teams and project management
  • Works collaboratively and proactively, maintains high degree of planning, coordination & project management skills, demonstrated ability to problem solve & resolve conflict with diplomacy.
  • Builds strong relationships with peers and cross functional partners outside of immediate team.
  • Exhibits strong emotional intelligence, diplomacy, maintenance of confidentiality, maturity, and organizational savvy.
  • Self-starter, learns fast, quickly grasps the essence of concepts, can change course rapidly where required, demonstrates intellectual curiosity.
  • Executes highly effective working team meetings with internal and external partners and is visibly inclusive and transparent.
  • Excellent command of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel
  • Experience working with pre-launch, launch, &/or on-market commercial teams, preferred.

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

  • Excellence Focused; Optimistic; Open and Authentic

Additional Information

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

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in thefuture.
  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
  • This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

US & Puerto Rico only - to learn more, visithttps://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html

US & Puerto Rico applicants seeking a reasonable accommodation, click here to learn more:

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Company Name: AbbVie
Website:https://careers.abbvie.com/en/job/associate-director-commercial-strategy-and-operations-in-mettawa-il-jid-23281?_atxsrc=HBCUConnect&utm_source=HBCUConnect
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