Associate Director, Thought Leader Liaison at AbbVie in Houston, TX

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About AbbVie
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 including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn,Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
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The Associate Director - Thought Leader Liaison, Venclexta - South reports to the Director, Thought Leader Strategy.
The Associate Director - Thought Leader Liaison, Venclexta - South is a remote-based, hybrid role supporting Venclexta.  Candidates should reside within the territory (within reasonable distance of a major airport). The South territory includes the states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky.  TLL will focus on engaging and maintaining relationships with leading hematology external experts across the assigned territory to provide critical insights that shape strategy and tactics. Additionally, this role partners with fellow commercial team members, agencies, legal, compliance, medical and co-marketing colleagues to successfully drive the business forward. TLL must demonstrate the ability to lead without authority and contribute to building a collaborative and integrated commercial team.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Develop, implement and maintain accountability for interactions and feedback with national and regional oncology hematology external experts
Ensure external expert perspectives are shared and considered consistently across leadership and the Integrated Brand Team
Manage planning and execution of marketing consultancy arrangements
Engage in congress related engagement activities nationally, including supporting and executing any ongoing TL strategies and tactics
Partner with internal cross functional partners including, and not limited to, sales, marketing, medical affairs, legal, compliance, and, and managed care
Collaborate with brand to ensure speaker bureau fully staffed, trained, and aligned to educational needs
Ensure a culture of compliance
Develop and execute national and regional advisory boards in collaboration with brand team and co-promotion partners
Partner to develop, refine, and execute and the Venclexta External Expert Engagement strategy
Contribute to the formation of regional strategies with cross-functional partners
Participate in cross-functional project teams and/or supporting the Marketing Team and overall franchise
qualifications
Basic Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree required; master’s degree preferred
Previous hematology experience
Exceptional presentation, interpersonal, collaboration and data discussion skill sets
Proven track record for consistently meeting or exceeding qualitative and /or quantitative goals
Proven & thorough knowledge of commercial issues associated with highly competitive oncology therapeutic area
Business travel, by air or car, is regularly required
Position is remote based. This role requires the ability to work effectively while engaged in travel and delivering timely results
Preferred:
5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical, diagnostic or biotech industry, specifically in oncology
Previous experience with hematology thought leaders with demonstrated access to key accounts
Previous experience developing productive insight collection activities with top tier External Experts
Previous field management, marketing, or commercial experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
Health care certification/qualification (e.g. APP, RN, RPh, other)
Advanced degree in life sciences
Thorough knowledge of Oncology market
Launch experience in pharmaceutical marketing or sales
Significant Work Activities

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

Yes, up to 75 % of the time
additionalInformation
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 long-term 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 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.​
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