Company Description

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.

Job Description

The GCD Exec. Dir. Aesthetics Toxins is responsible for shaping the vision, direction and implementation of the global aesthetics neurotoxins portfolio strategy. The individual is responsible for all aspects of the new product pipeline and overall strategy for the Allergan Aesthetics Neurotoxins portfolio to help support our long-term leadership of the category through innovation and category expansion.

This individual will lead a team to develop and deliver against a pipeline strategy that contributes business growth, drives category leadership, and optimizes the portfolio value. This includes building a deep understanding of the global market landscape, trends, customer and consumer needs, and creating a plan to address gaps through internal and external innovation. They will provide the strategic oversight and guidance to manage the interdependencies and learnings across our neurotoxins franchise, including commercial interdependencies with therapeutic neurotoxins programs, to maximize the success of our pipeline.

The role demands strong leadership and close collaboration with global, cross-functional colleagues, including R&D, Operations, US and International Consumer and Customer Marketing, and Area and Affiliate level delivery teams.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Acts as the accountable commercial owner of the global aesthetics neurotoxins pipeline and franchise strategy
• Builds and leads a high-performing team to gather key global commercial insights - based on market research, competitive intelligence, KOL perspectives and internal insights - to deliver a robust aesthetic neurotoxin strategy
• Identify opportunities for growth via new product introduction and portfolio optimization – creating a unified internal and external innovation strategy
• Responsible for ensuring robust early commercial planning and smooth transition of pipeline programs to downstream execution teams
• Develops close working relationship with leaders across R&D, regulatory/legal, medical affairs, market research, operations, marketing and key opinion leaders; bringing together the best of the business to drive results in a heavily matrixed, fast-paced environment
• Navigates competing priorities across functions and regions to align on the best path forward for the overall global facial injectables business
• Ensures strong cross-functional and leadership alignment on the aesthetic neurotoxin strategy and key commercial inputs into the associated pipeline programs
• Maintains robust understanding of competitor insights and associated implications for the Allergan Aesthetics neurotoxin portfolio
• Supports agile decision making to adapt strategy as needed based on evolving insights and pipeline developments
• Maintains accountability for the development of rigorous aesthetic neurotoxin forecasts to support portfolio optimisation and business decision making, and a rigorous LRP submission
• Owns budget and proactively partner with Finance to ensure timely review of and management of financial resources

OTHER REQUIREMENTS (e.g., travel):

Ability to travel up to 20%, including overnight stays

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Strong strategic thinking, with a proven ability to develop robust strategies and support sound decision making based on drawing together disparate insights
• Demonstrated track record of leading a diverse team through a compelling shared vision, nurturing and developing key talent
• Proven ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally, leveraging strong interpersonal skills to successfully driven consensus in a matrixed organization
• Strong analytical expertise
• Able to pivot appropriately from high level strategic decisions with less than perfect information, to detail orientation and tactical execution
• Highly agile and adaptable, with an ability to adapt strategy as information evolves
• Robust understanding and experience of different stages of the product life cycle, including product launch
• Strong communicator, with excellent oral, written, and presentation skills; proven ability to interact directly with and influence Senior Management and global thought leaders in aesthetics

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree within a relevant course of study
• MBA, PhD, or other advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., Medicine, Sciences, etc.) strongly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals or medical devices, with experience in medical aesthetics strongly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ people leadership experience
• Global experience preferred
• Experienced and comfortable working in a highly matrixed organization

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

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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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status. To learn more, visit https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/equal-employment-opportunity-employer.html (US & Puerto Rico only)