The Associate Director, APEX Specialty PCS will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate insights generation activities in support of assigned franchise/brand, including market research, analytics, and competitive intelligence. The individual will derive high-impact learnings using many sources/techniques, lead key internal initiatives, and partner across teams and organizations to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. The ability to influence decisions based upon careful and strategic thinking and understanding of the business is critical to success.

Responsibilities

• Act as intelligence partner across Specialty PCS, focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and burgeoning trends within Specialty therapeutic categories.

• Be conversant with custom research methods, adept at supplier and stakeholder management, and able to independently lead custom research projects that deliver compelling and actionable learnings.

• Perform thought-provoking and sophisticated syntheses of learning across research, analytics, and market intelligence sources to develop actionable insights and recommendations that shape strategies and tactics.

• Maintain organizational knowledge of the market, competitive trends, and industry developments and effectively communicate this knowledge to internal stakeholders.

• Design and execute measurement plans, inclusive of selected operational and performance indicators, to ensure the organization’s understanding of execution of, engagement with, and impact of in market tactics.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure insights across Commercial and R&D are leveraged appropriately to inform strategic and tactical decisions. Build strong relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.

• Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.

• Leverage internal resources, external vendors, and AI to maximize learnings and accelerate AbbVie’s understanding of key therapeutic categories within Specialty.

• Monitor and manage research and analytics programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.

• Ensure all research and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.