Associate Director, Regional Marketing- West

Responsibilities

• 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 market drivers, 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
• 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

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Previous experience in sales, sales management, or marketing with at least 2 years of experience in Immunology (preferred)
• Travel up to 75% of the time including some evenings and weekends

Preferred

• Mastery of verbal and non-verbal communication and presentation skills, live and virtual, to effectively engage internal leadership and external stakeholders
• Experience working in a collaborative working environment with integrated, cross-functional teams by understanding priorities, key responsibilities and influencing without direct authority to drive results
• Ability to navigate a field and headquarter based matrix organization, to impact and/or drive decision making across functions to drive strategy and brand performance
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Knowledge of applicable regulations and standards affecting Pharmaceutical Products

Benefits

• 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 long-term incentive programs.