Associate Director, Analytics and Performance Excellence (APEX) Specialty PCS

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. • BA or BS degree required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred. • ~10 years relevant marketing research, analytics, or competitive intelligence experience required. • Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data (physician-level prescribing, institutional sales data, payer-prescriber-level data, formulary data, patient-level data, etc.) preferred. Experience in CPG or other consumer-facing industries also a plus. • Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving. • Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization. • Proven experience as an integral member of a high-performing work team. • Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment. • Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies. • Demonstrated project management skills. • Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment. • Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.   Applicable only to applicants applying to