This role is field-based, and candidates should live within a reasonable distance to the geography. 

The geography includes the following states and we are open to hiring candidates who live in the following areas:

• California
• Washington
• Nevada
• Arizona

The Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager will work closely with multiple AbbVie cross-functional teams to ensure collaboration, alignment, and successful development of area marketing strategy and execution. This field-based marketing role will be responsible for the optimization of national and regional marketing initiatives, ensuring alignment with Annual Strategic Brand Plans.

The Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager will act as the face of the AbbVie Marketing team with our External Experts, developing, implementing, and maintaining interactions for the purpose of insight generation within assigned geographies. Additionally, the Neuroscience Area Marketing Manager works within a team-based environment to optimize brand performance across AbbVie Neurology.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Marketing

• Lead projects compliantly and effectively through the promotional review process to deliver high-quality work in a timely fashion (meets deadlines). Ensures that regulatory guidelines and AbbVie processes are followed
• Manage strategy, execution and budgeting for national and regional conventions, External Expert consulting, advisory boards, and commercial peer-to-peer education programming.
• Continually applies knowledge and evaluates the effectiveness of key marketing tactics, making strategic recommendations to leadership on opportunities for brand optimization
• Ability to provide in-depth insights based on the brands key business questions to provide input on marketing strategy, resource optimization and tactic development that drives brand performance
• Lead partnerships with field leadership in assigned geography to optimize pull-through of marketing strategies
• Responsible for understanding a geographical area’s competitive landscape, provider dynamics and competitive intelligence across the assigned geography
• Coordinate the direction and deliverables of multiple external vendors and internal departments including Agency Partners, Marketing functions, Market Research, Legal, Regulatory, Medical Affairs, Office of Ethics and Compliance, and IT
• Driving a personal auto or company car or truck, or a powered piece of material handling equipment

Thought Leader Engagement

• Identify, build, and strengthen commercial relationships with External Experts, emerging leaders, and relevant patient and professional associations within assigned geography
• Develop regional engagement plans for External Experts and ensure consistent tactical execution throughout the year to drive key marketing engagement
• Demonstrate In-depth understanding of external and internal drivers across multiple external stakeholder groups and appropriately connecting AbbVie’s Integrated Brand Teams on opportunities for collaboration based on aligned objectives, in compliance with industry standards