Director Diversity and Patient Inclusion Global Remote Opportunity

AbbVie is committed to being an industry leader in accelerating the transformation of molecules to
medicines to maximize the value for patients and AbbVie. We must cultivate a collaborative
environment that encourages the cocreation of innovative solutions with our patients and
healthcare providers. In doing so we will build highvalue relationships and enable enhanced trial
experiences for our customers. This role is responsible for creating a customer centric strategy
aimed to develop a sustainable partnership model that empowers patients and healthcare providers
to consistently work with us to improve clinical trial awareness and attract underserved diverse
populations of investigative sites and patients as well as enhance the patient and investigator trial
experience.

• This role is accountable for creating a vision and customer centric strategy that creates a collaborative internal work environment to connect patients and clinical sites with our study teams as well as elevate AbbVies external identity as a preferred partner committed to collaboration to accelerate medicines to our patients
• Develop and implement an internal and external communication plan that raises our profile and differentiates AbbVie as an innovator who demonstrates impactful changes to clinical development through collaboration with our customers
• Develop strategic direction to an adaptive approach to optimizing trial awareness that facilitates patient decisionmaking
• Drive the implementation of the clinical trial diversity and inclusion strategy aimed to attract underserved diverse populations of investigator sites and patients in our clinical trials.
• Drive proactive communication and transparency to advance AbbVies EED&I efforts in our clinical research both internally and externally.
• Drive alignment between the EED&I program and AbbVies business strategy. Continue to refine our clinical trial diversity and inclusion strategies based on analytics and ensuring every team has access to regional indication demographics including AbbVie resources to help resolve previously identified diversity gaps.
• Effectively lead the team to develop industryleading patient engagement capabilities and leverage cuttingedge resources to enable seamless integration of the patient and site perspective into clinical trial planning.
• Establish benchmarking within and outside AbbVie to determine industry leading patientcentered and clinical trial diversity solutions in support of AbbVies program.
• Identify and work crossfunctionally to drive process improvements aligned to reinforce patient centricity and proactive management of diversity and inclusion in clinical trial operations.
• Actively participate in external forums focused on patient centricity and clinical trial diversity to represent AbbVie in this space but also to gather best practices to further enhance AbbVies strategy.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors Degree in a scientific field required Advanced degree is desirable.
• Minimum of 12 years of pharmarelated/clinical research experience or equivalent
• 10 years of patient recruitment project management and people management (preferred)
• Advanced working knowledge of ICH and GCP guidelines required.
• Operational understanding of the global regulatory environment is desirable.
• Excellent collaborator and articulate communicator easily build relationships across geographic locations and gains cross functional alignment.
• Ability to communicate persuasively with clarity flexibility and adaptability to changing requirements resourcefulness and creativity
• Strategic thinker with excellent business and financial aptitude very analytical and uses data to drive the business and continuous improvements.

*Preference is for role to be office based at an AbbVie location but may be potential for the role to be remote.

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. 

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 AbbVies 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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