Associate Director, Business Analytics - Migraine

Associate Director, Business Analytics - Migraine

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.

The Analytics And Performance Excellence (APEX) team supporting AbbVie's US Commercial organization is 200+ members strong and growing every day. We comprise highly respected researchers, analysts, and strategists striving to be the gold standard research and analytics organization within the biopharmaceutical industry. We serve as strategic in-house advisors and a pragmatic compass to Marketing, Sales, and Leadership ensuring that all decisions are grounded in rigorous intelligence and earned intuition. We look at 'data' differently as an input into insight generation, not an endgame. We appreciate ambiguity but recognize the need for clarity. We work tirelessly to build new capabilities and skill sets, encouraging our team members to pull up a chair, be themselves, be creative, speak their minds, and do good work. Patients depend on us, and we take that very seriously without taking ourselves too seriously. We are smart, fun, quirky, and innovative and we'd love for you to join us.

Position Overview

The Associate Director, Business Analytics - Migraine, will develop and deploy analytic solutions based on business needs for the Migraine brands to pull through brand strategy and tactics at a national and sub-national level. This position's primary objectives include ensuring successful execution of the analytical plan, deriving findings and implications from physician and patient analytics to strengthen commercial understanding of subnational dynamics and performance, and using analytic insights to identify actionable opportunities to enhance performance.

Major Responsibilities

Develop fact-based promotional investment strategies and guide investment decisions from marketing mix / business optimization and other analysis to optimize performance, influence business growth & inform the annual financial forecasting and brand planning process.

Develop near-term KPIs and longer-term ROI measurements that will inform recommendations to optimize personal and non-personal promotional channels.

Integrally involved with financial planning process, responsible for input into financial planning process & key conduit to Forecasting for all monthly estimates, annual plan, and long-range plan deliverables.

Understand sub-national drivers of cross-brand performance, providing more granularity to performance dynamics across distribution channels and customers.

Leverage innovative, sophisticated analytic models that address critical issues but also meet key business criteria (e.g., cost, risk, business impact) and key technical criteria (e.g., reliability, validity, and predictability).

Effectively work with cross-functional partners to deliver integrated analytics reflecting the diverse contributions across the functions.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree required, with a concentration in marketing / sales / quantitative analysis preferred. Advanced degree preferred.

10+ years of relevant experience in quantitative analysis of sales and marketing information is required, including use of this information in the development of business plans and strategies.

Experience within the Pharma / Biotech industry is a plus.

1-2 years people leadership experience is a plus.

Strong analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, and creativity in problem solving. Experience with current methods Analytics / Machine Learning.

Advanced experience with 3rd party pharmaceutical data sources like IQVIA / SHS Sales Data (APLD, DDD, Xponent, NSP, NPA), and Specialty pharmacy data and one or multiple analytic domains (promo optimization, digital, launch support, etc.) is a plus.

Deep hands-on expertise in current analytical methods & tools (including machine learning)

Advanced communication and influencing skills

Advanced agility, project management and prioritization skills

Advanced vendor management skills

Proven ability to collaborate effectively and to influence in a matrixed organization

High motivation, strong work-ethic and positive attitude while working under tight timelines

Additional Information

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 the company 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.

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 and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer / Veterans / Disabled. US & Puerto Rico only.