Director, Marketing Insights

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. 

The role of the Marketing Insights Director within U.S. Commercial, AbbVie is to develop and execute an integrated Insights plan in support of the strategic and tactical plans that drive the components of the franchise business.

This position’s primary objectives are: Lead and develop the insights function for the franchise, ensure successful execution of the strategic and tactical plans against key stakeholders including patients, physicians and payers driven by strong and differentiating insights that are clearly communicated to, understood by and acted upon by the appropriate marketing team(s).

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic plan development and tactical plan execution by ensuring that motivating insights are identified by the franchise teams and executed by both the XFranchise and franchise teams.
• Provide guidance and direction to consumer marketing teams in understanding physician and patient behaviors regarding media consumption and the associated investment, integration and improved efficiencies of paid media assets.
• Lead insight creation and sharing for new product development opportunities from ideation to launch. Integrate insights from common platform to guide development of semi-custom platforms for specific franchise adoption
• Understand market research design and implications for the therapeutic area and identifies sound approaches to research based on the hypotheses and situational constraints; interprets research findings and synthesizes them into actionable business insights.
• Leads the market research team in a manner that ensures that market research professionals have access to, use, and are properly trained and instructed in the application of appropriate methodologies; both traditional and cutting edge innovative research methodologies, and capabilities.
• Apply principles of strong verbal and visual communication that includes strong client relationships and strong visualization and storytelling skills that integrate insights from a wide array of available resources.
• Guide the marketing and brand strategy through synthesized insights and recommendations on the consumer/patient, physician, category, brand, payor and channel.
• Comfortable in collaborating and influencing integrated brand team members though all facets of the business process, and communicating /influencing/presenting to senior management.
• Play a leadership role in advancing the function in addition to the direct team.
• Possess strong understanding of the broad healthcare environment and specific therapeutic areas to identify and proactively address opportunities and threats.
• Be on top of relevant trends, identify and champion opportunities with action plans to senior management.
• Significantly increase the productivity of AbbVie and CA&O partner resources through effective use of external suppliers and contractors aligned with key AbbVie efficiency objectives.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Psychology, Sociology, Life Science, Market Research
• 10+ years of experience in the identification, articulation and application of customer insights at least 5 years in pharmaceutical industry and the use of this information in the development of business plans and strategies. It requires strong leadership skills and a proven ability to work closely and effectively with all corporate functions and senior management.
• Intimate knowledge of the marketing and sales planning processes and the ability to develop and use specialized market research techniques in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Command of the following software programs (PowerPoint, Excel).

Preferred:

• Master’s Degree (Business Administration, Statistics, Economics) with a concentration in marketing/sales/market research

Accountability / Scope:

• Reports to Director, Commercial Insights and Analytics
  Builds relationships and interacts with direct staff/team, internal peers, forecasting, finance, Customer Experience, legal, RMs, SDs, marketing directors and product managers, GMs/VPs, vendors.
• Budget responsibility: $2MM - $10MM
• Focus (Scope): 60% Strategic/40% Tactical
• Travel: 20%

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• 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. ​

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