Purpose Statement:

Bring impactful pharmaceutical products to customers as quickly and efficiently as possible via leading China Asset Strategy Team and working closely with regional and global teams to deliver the most competitive asset strategies

Location：Shanghai/Beijing

Major Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

• Defines and execute China development strategy for assigned assets which contributes to sustainable, successful growth of AbbVie pharma business.
• Ensures that the individual development asset add significant value to China pharma, through effective, rapid and broad development of pipeline assets, with adequate consideration of market potential and commercialization aspects.
• Ensures optimal performance of China Asset Strategy Team (C-AST) and deliverable teams by leading, driving and coordinating all development activities for China
• Foster continuous improvement mindset as one team from learnings throughout asset lifecycle

Role

Develop an integrated asset strategy for China.

• Creates the most competitive strategy based on unmet medical needs, market potential, regulatory requirements and operational feasibilities.
• Brings new products to the market through fastest and cost-effective approach.

• Provides inputs to global Asset Strategy Team (AST) ensuring China development strategy is integrated into the global development strategy.

• Ensures alignment on the program development strategies within China AST and with relevant stakeholders including China commercial, JAPAC, Intercon and global AST.
  • • • Represents China AST at global ASTs and the appropriate decision bodies in China.

Lead the China Asset Strategy Team

• Sets challenging individual asset-related objectives for and together with the team members to be considered in team member’s objective setting.
• Maintains motivation within the team: Foster ‘trust and transparency’ within the team in order to optimize team functioning.
• For asset-related activities, provides regular feedback to team member concerning their contribution to the team performance to target objectives.

Accountable for advancing assets with speed, quality and good control in budget.  

• Defines and oversee development timelines and milestones in alignment with
          C-AST members, key stakeholders in China, JAPAC, Intercon and AST
• Drives and steers the implementation of the asset strategy in China, by leading C-AST and cooperating with ASTs.
• Proactively develops proposals to manage/mitigate/resolve risks for asset strategy and delivery in China.
• Empower China functional leads to be accountable and responsible for functional deliverables and deliver in an agile and operationally-efficient way for committed timelines and budgets in China.

Other key attributes

• Build strong connections with the global Asset Strategy Leadership group.
• Be a key contributor to China portfolio strategy.
• Contribute to align China strategy with cross affiliate stakeholder management.
• Lead AbbVie-wide initiatives to build leadership capability and enhance team performance, directing activities with appropriate internal stakeholders.