Associate Director, Scientific Advocacy & Professional Societies (US Medical Affairs) (REMOTE) - AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn. 

The associate director of scientific patient advocacy is part of the medical affairs team and supports AbbVie’s commitment to build strong relationships with the patient advocacy communities focusing on lung and blood cancers (MM, MDS, FL, MF). This role requires working closely to align goals, objectives, and strategies with colleagues across communications, commercial, medical affairs, legal and compliance to ensure key regulatory/data milestones and activities are communicated with patient communities regionally and nationally.

• Develops and implements advocacy strategies aligned to corporate and business objectives
• Establish, maintain, and enhance strategic relationships with relevant or prioritized patient advocacy, professional medical societies and policy organizations. Identify & direct activities based on business priorities and create mutually beneficial relationships.  Represent AbbVie at key patient advocacy, professional medical and policy meetings and provide updates to management.
• Develops a proactive approach to managing and enhancing company’s relationships with patient communities; builds strong, mutually productive relationships and provides compliant guidance to existing and/or evolving patient organizations
• Provide strategic insight and coordination within AbbVie for relevant meetings with professional societies and to assist with decision making.
• Identify, develop, and advance collaborative programs and initiatives with patient/HCP organizations at the national level as well as finding local opportunities that forward mutual goals and establish AbbVie as a preferred partner
• Facilitates patient engagement including input in oncology trials, works closely with the trial teams to identify opportunities for patient involvement in research studies, manage patient engagement meetings, promote tools, training and communication to create more awareness within AbbVie
• Drive and embed a patient-centric mindset and engagement in the oncology medical affairs team and activities by incorporating patient insights, advising on patient unmet needs
• Build strong, collaborative relationships with team members in communications, medical affairs, commercial, clinical, legal and compliance.
• Ensure cross-functional collaboration with medical, commercial, clinical, and other key stakeholders to optimally manage relationships to ensure alignment and effective execution of patient advocacy strategy/objectives.
• Routinely evaluates opportunities to enhance AbbVie’s visibility in relevant initiatives and build AbbVie ’s reputation for innovative partnerships
• Stays current with relevant information and resources regarding pharma related legislation; provides updates regularly to management
• Strategically manages budgets for sponsorships/grants to patient organizations
• Anticipates and recognizes patient advocacy/policy trends, and implications for AbbVie and brings these insights back to the therapeutic area
• Develops and applies evaluative outcomes and insights to programs and activities to monitor success
• Creates systems and procedures by which to track and internally communicate advocacy relations/interactions
• Ensure a strong connection between employees and the patient community, including identifying innovative and compliant ways for employees to connect/engage with the community

• 10+ years’ experience in patient advocacy and professional society management (oncology preferred) or similar function/experience with a demonstrated track record of success
• Demonstrated understanding of industry and business priorities and concerns and the ability to translate business needs into tactical patient/disease advocacy plans and materials
• Demonstrated experience in implementing patient advocacy/HCP programs that drive business strategy and priorities and engage both internal and external stakeholders
• Project and budget management experience
• Established relationships within the oncology community desired

Skills

• Outstanding oral and written communications and presentation skills
• Relationship builder with exceptional interpersonal and networking skills
• Ability to interact successfully and with confidence at all organizational levels, including senior leadership, and across a wide range of corporate functions
• Strong project management skills, attention to detail and prioritization
• Comfortable working within tight deadlines and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Works collaboratively, independently and with a sense of urgency; able to prioritize areas of strategic importance to the company and to help articulate to senior management
• Self-starter, able to work independently
• Collaborative problem solver who thinks outside the box

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• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• 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 short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

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Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law. ​

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