Director II Global Alliances

As Director II of Global Alliances you will work with Immunology therapeutic area leaders to define pipeline and partnering strategies for AbbVie.  You will maintain a portfolio and champion programs governed by alliance agreements between AbbVie and our external partners with a focus on jointly advancing drug discovery development and commercialization of medicines that bring remarkable impact to patients. You will partner with leaders across AbbVie be a high performing team member who exemplifies an interest and expertise in the biopharma industry demonstrate strong desire to define and advance AbbVies strategic agenda and lead all alliancerelated activities in support of AbbVies partnered pipeline.  Once well established you will have opportunities to develop and lead the Global Alliances Immunology Team within AbbVies Corporate Business & Strategy Office (CBSO).

The Global Alliances group provides a high profile and high impact experience for team members. The Director II will leverage their scientific and business acumen to drive alignment on the overarching therapeutic area strategy provide input on business development and therapeutic area pipeline initiatives lead the alliance and all business aspects of partnered programs and make robust recommendations to senior leadership to best position the therapeutic area partnered pipeline for success.

The successful candidate for this position will support defining ABBV Immunology therapeutic area strategy support due diligence and business development activities when assessing and negotiating potential future partnerships and liaise with AbbVies internal business development R&D and Commercial governance to execute pipeline strategy. This individual will work within a crossmatrix team setting composed of both internal and external partners. 

Major Responsibilities:

1. Once established serve as the Global Alliances Team Lead for the Immunology Therapeutic Area including working collaboratively with therapeutic area leaders to execute business development and pipeline strategies.
2. You will have oversight of AbbVies Immunology alliances and team including responsibility for administering and developing the Global Alliances Immunology therapeutic area personnel.
3. Lead a portfolio of highvalue strategic alliances including translating strategic vision for the alliances into action and serving as AbbVies business leader for all aspects of the partnership.
4. Act as advocate for the alliance resolving conflicts and collaborating crossfunctionally to facilitate relationships between the partners.
5. As required per agreement and business need lead riskappropriate diligence coordinate team alignment and make strategic recommendations on partnered assets to senior leaders.
6. Drive the agendas and execute governance meetings between internal and external partners.
7. Support AbbVies business development strategy and operations as appropriate.
8. Support AbbVies corporate partnership events to build and strengthen external relationships with existing and future partners.
9. Establish and promote best partnering practices to gain competitive advantage and establish AbbVie as partnerofchoice.
10. Drive executivelevel discussions to influence complex business decisions and effectively collaborate crossfunctionally to deliver business results.
11. Partner with VP and executive level stakeholders acting as a thoughtpartner on key business decisions that impact the current and future state of AbbVie.

Qualifications :

• Advanced scientific degree (PharmD PhD MD or PhDMD) with a focus on Immunology strongly preferred.
• 510 years of experience in pharmaceutical development or commercialization.
• Strong executive presence business acumen critical reasoning and ability to frame and communicate complex recommendations and decisions is highly valued.
• Experience working with external partners. Ability to think creatively and strategically to successfully mediate and negotiate with individuals and groups internally and externally.
• Experience managing large projects within a complex matrixed organization either as an external consultant or internal crossfunctional lead to influence and align stakeholders.
• Experience with various business development deal models including optionbased models.
• Requires thorough understanding of the research development and commercialization of new drugs through past experiences and a good grounding in scientific development regulatory and commercial concepts in both early and latestage development programs.
• Must demonstrate critical analytic thinking for conflict resolution; risk management; organizational alignment; and develop and present strategic proposals to executive leadership teams that will lead to better business outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks simultaneously and competing priorities.
• Familiarity with legal and contractual governance.
• Basic financial literacy with quantitative and modeling skills and ability to distill complex information.

Additional Information :

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

• 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 shortterm incentive programs. 

• This job is eligible to participate in our longterm incentive programs

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 Companys sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Companys sole and absolute discretion consistent with applicable law. 

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