Associate Director, AI Solutions

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 www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. Job Description: The Marketing Analytics and Business Insights (MABI) function supports AbbVie’s US organization and is comprised of highly regarded researchers, analysts, data scientists and strategists who are committed to being best-in-class within the biopharmaceutical industry. We serve as strategic in-house counsel, ensuring that all decisions leverage the key insights that we develop. We continue to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work. We are a passionate, diverse, flexible, and inclusive organization with a culture that supports the best ideas, wherever they originate. We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative – and we’d love for you to join us. The Associate Director AI Solutions reports to the Director, Data and Analytics Product in the MABI Center of Excellence (MABI CoE) team. The MABI CoE Data and Analytics Product team is responsible for leading the development and lifecycle management of enterprise-level solutions that empower brands to make effective data-driven decisions to maximize business performance and enhance patient experience. The Associate Director AI Solutions is a leadership position that will play a critical role in driving innovation and business growth by leveraging AI and advanced analytics. This individual will be responsible for assessing analytics requirements, researching methodologies, conducting feasibility assessment, and recommending the best solution. Additionally, the person will lead proof of concept development and building scalable analytics capabilities while minimizing complexity. This individual will collaborate with internal and external partners to deliver impactful solutions. Key Responsibilities: • Meet with leaders across various functional areas (e.g. data governance, data ops, strategy, marketing, technology, and finance) to understand business challenges. • Establish roadmap for AI integration into data and analytics solutions. • Conduct research and feasibility assessment to identify challenges that can be addressed by leveraging AI advancements and recommend candidate solutions. • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics through internal and external partnerships. • Identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation through the application of cutting-edge techniques and algorithms. • As applicable, lead the development of proof-of-concept solutions to demonstrate value. • Lead the design, development, testing, and deployment of these solutions while ensuring reliability, scalability, and maintainability. • Create and deliver presentations and read-outs to various levels of leadership to communicate project status, findings, and recommendations. • Perform core analyses with limited supervision to generate insights and drive informed decision-making. Supervisory / Management Responsibilities: • Lead up to 2 direct reports. Manage vendor relationships and budgets. Qualifications: Key Competencies: • Advanced understanding of the AI/ML landscape and advancements • Strong written and oral communication, presentation, and inter-personal skills • Demonstrated ability to present complex topics to senior management and contributing to high level presentations and discussions • Experience working with and managing multiple internal partners and external agencies • Strong collaboration skills and ability to influence development and adoption of capabilities • Strong planning and organization skills. • Strong focus on teamwork, relationship-building and influencing others; acting courageously and constructively, with agility and a high degree of accountability. Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Statistics, Economics, Engineering, or other quantitative discipline; advanced degree preferred. Required Experience: • 10+ years of experience in marketing analytics • 8+ years of experience in advanced analytics and statistical modeling • 6+ years of experience defining data and technology requirements to support analytics • 6+ years of experience leveraging multiple sources of data and integrating them to deliver actionable recommendations Preferred Experience: • Advanced Hands-on experience with Python/R/SQL • Familiarity with various prescription and patient data sources such as Symphony Health, IQVIA, etc. 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 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 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