Head of Marketing, Retina Eyecare

Irvine, CA (On-site)

$182K/yr – $346K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 2 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and drive the Retina marketing strategy and cross-functional leadership to guide launches, lifecycle growth, and franchise performance across multiple functions.

  • Lead P&L planning, budgeting, and strategic investment decisions.
  • Coordinate executive communication and cross-functional alignment across Sales, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, and Finance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Retina Marketing Strategy: Sets the overarching Retina Marketing strategy across in-line and pipeline assets. Ensure strategies reflect enterprise priorities, customer needs, market dynamics, and asset life-cycle considerations.
  • Business and P&L Leadership: Own marketing inputs to the Retina business plan, including forecast assumptions, operating budgets, resource allocation, performance objectives, and investment trade-offs.
  • Brand Performance and Execution: Direct development, execution, measurement, and optimization of integrated marketing plans. Establish clear performance indicators, identify risks and opportunities, and hold the organization accountable for timely, high-quality delivery and business results.
  • People and Culture Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop direct and indirect team members; set clear priorities, roles, and decision rights; foster high-performing culture grounded in trust, accountability, agility, collaboration, and enterprise leadership.
  • Launch and Life-Cycle Management: Lead commercial strategy and readiness for launch products, including go-to-market planning, positioning, customer and site-of-care readiness, distribution, access considerations, etc. Ensure continued optimization of established brands.
  • Customer and Market Insight: Maintain deep understanding of retina specialists, patients, practices, sites of care, health care decision makers and competitive dynamics.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the senior Marketing representative for Retina aligning Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, Trade, Supply Chain, Patient Services, Analytics, R&D, Global, etc. around shared priorities, decisions, resourcing, and execution.
  • External Partnerships and Reputation: Oversee agency and vendor partnerships and guide appropriate engagement with external collaborators, professional societies, and advocacy organizations.
  • Executive Communication and Influence: Provide clear recommendations, updates, and decision frameworks to broader AbbVie leadership. Influence and communicate across organizational matrix.
  • Compliance and Governance: Ensure all strategies and activities comply with AbbVie policies and applicable legal, regulatory, medical, and industry requirements.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
  • Minimum 10 Years Of Marketing Experience
  • Extensive progressive pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or specialty-care commercial experience, including significant leadership in marketing and brand strategy.
  • Demonstrated success leading a franchise, portfolio, or major brand across multiple life-cycle stages, including launch planning and in-market growth.
  • Strong people-leadership experience with a record of building high-performing teams, developing talent, and leading through change in a matrixed organization.
  • Deep expertise across the marketing capability framework, including insights, segmentation, positioning, value proposition, customer experience, creative development, omnichannel execution, and investment optimization.
  • Strong financial and analytical acumen, including forecasting, operating-budget management, resource allocation, performance measurement, and P&L-oriented decision making.
  • Proven ability to lead and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders across Sales, Market Access, Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Operations, R&D, and Global teams.
  • Excellent executive communication, strategic problem solving, judgment, and decision-making skills, with the ability to translate complexity into clear direction and action.
  • Preferred experience in ophthalmology, retina, buy-and-bill, specialty biologics, site-of-care markets, or physician-administered therapies preferred.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
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AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on creating medicines and solutions that put impact first — for patients, communities, and our world. We aim to address complex health issues and enhance people's lives through our core therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, aesthetics and other areas of unmet need. Learn more about us at www.abbvie.com and review our community guidelines at https://www.abbvie.com/social-media-community-guidelines.html.

Founded in 2013
North Chicago, Illinois, USA
60K employees (3,267 in marketing)
78% recommend to a friend
88% CEO approval

Salaries

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$182K/yr – $346K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$23B
Last Raise
$8B
Post IPO Debt, 18 days ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2026
    Post IPO Debt • $8B
  • Feb 2024
    Post IPO Debt • $15B
  • Mar 2023
    Post IPO Equity • $250K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.4M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$37.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
35%
Direct
45.7%
Referral
11.2%
Social
6.1%
Paid
1.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~59.9K

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Head of Marketing, Retina Eyecare

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