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AbbVie Director, Corporate Strategy in North Chicago, Illinois

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

As a business strategist, you will work closely with senior leaders to drive mission-critical initiatives that will make a real difference for AbbVie’s patients, while positioning our company for sustained top-tier growth. You will report to the Vice President of the Corporate Strategy Group (CSG) as part of the Corporate Strategy Office (CSO). You will also work alongside experienced leaders and be positioned for career growth and rotational opportunities within the company.

Responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional leaders across AbbVie to drive strategic initiatives that will position AbbVie to sustain long-term, top-tier growth

  • Monitor, understand and prioritize external trends of relevance to the enterprise, and help determine how AbbVie should prepare and/or respond

  • Provide targeted support for AbbVie’s long-range strategic planning processes, including helping leaders shape their therapeutic and disease area strategic plans

  • Help communicate our strategy across AbbVie

    Significant Work Activities -Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., medicine, sciences, MBA) preferred

  • 4+ years of experience at a top-tier strategic consulting firm, with healthcare and/or biopharma industry experience

  • Broad industry knowledge, including working understanding of the drug discovery, development and commercialization cycle, and basic knowledge of adjacent industries

  • Exceptional problem-solving skills; ability to frame broad and ambiguous problems and tackle in a logical way; experience developing well-supported business cases

  • Strong communication skills – comfortable presenting to and influencing senior leaders; able to tell clear and compelling stories, distilling essential points to enable high-quality decisions

  • Collaboration – team player, can-do attitude; focused on success of working team and of AbbVie

  • Cross-functional leadership – able to set goals, define clear work plans, sustain momentum, and motivate quality contributions from diverse team members

  • Drive, energy, and passion to advance AbbVie’s mission

  • Additional Information

AbbVie 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.

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