Associate Director, Business Insights Lead

AbbVie; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an Associate Director, Business Insights to partner with Clinical Site Management (CSM) and lead portfolio-level analytics across global sites. You will translate complex questions into data-driven analyses and drive decision support for senior leaders.

You will own analytical products for site management, collaborate across regions, and mentor junior staff while aligning with enterprise strategic initiatives and CDO-wide objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in business analytics, strategy, or a related client-facing analytical role.
• Experience managing senior stakeholder relationships and delivering findings to executives.
• Strong analytical and strategic decision-support skills to translate ambiguous questions into data-driven analyses.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to distill complex analyses for non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary SABI point of contact and trusted advisor to Area heads and Clinical Field Excellence leadership.
• Lead delivery of portfolio-level insights from hypothesis generation to recommendations.
• Own and evolve key analytical products for Clinical Site Management (site ID/allocation models, country/site benchmarking, enrollment scenario planning).
• Provide analytical coverage across Americas to Europe to Intercontinental for global stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into scoped, actionable analytical workstreams.
• Influence Sr. Directors/VP-level decisions through executive communication.
• Collaborate with SABI leads and adjacent CAP functions to ensure consistency and reuse of methodologies.
• Support priority CDO-wide initiatives and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Master’s degree in Finance, Analytics, Business, or related quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Company Description

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.

Job Description

Purpose

Reporting to the Director, Strategy, Analytics & Business Insights (SABI), the Associate Director, Business Insights serves as the primary analytical and strategic partner to the Clinical Site Management (CSM) organization. This role owns portfolio-level business insights for Clinical Site Management — translating complex, ambiguous business questions into data-driven analyses that directly inform Sr. Director and VP-level decisions across site strategy, study design, resourcing, and risk management. The Associate Director builds and sustains trusted relationships with Sr. Directors and their leadership teams across all geographic areas and across the clinical study lifecycle, ensuring SABI’s analytical capabilities are embedded into how every leader plans and executes their operation strategies.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the primary SABI point of contact and trusted advisor to Area heads and Clinical Field Excellence leadership, proactively identifying where data and analytics can resolve ambiguity in portfolio-level decisions.
• End-to-End Insight Delivery: Lead delivery of portfolio-level insights — from hypothesis generation and data identification through analysis, insight generation, and recommendations — following SABI’s hypothesis-driven problem-solving approach.
• Analytical Product Ownership: Own and evolve key analytical products for Clinical Site Management (e.g., site ID and allocation models, country/site performance benchmarking, enrollment scenario planning, operational trend analyses), ensuring they remain decision-relevant as portfolio priorities shift.
• Cross-Geographic Support — Americas to Europe to Intercontinental: Provide analytical and decision-support coverage to all global stakeholders, extending proven approaches where transferable and adapting them to country/region-specific needs.
• Business Need Translation: Partner with Sr. Directors and CSM leadership across all functions to translate emerging business needs into scoped, actionable analytical workstreams.
• Executive Communication: Influence Sr. Directors/VP-level decisions, tailoring communication to executive audiences.
• Risk & Gap Identification: Identify and el?
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with SABI’s other leads (across CSL and CSM) and adjacent CAP functions (Study Feasibility & Analytics, Clinical Acceleration Solutions) to ensure consistency and reuse of analytical approaches across therapeutic areas.
• CDO-Wide Initiatives: Provide analytical and strategic support for priority CDO-wide initiatives, partnering across functions and applying SABI capabilities beyond assigned therapeutic areas to advance enterprise objectives.
• Team Capability Development: Provide project-based coaching and mentorship to junior team members and rotational analysts supporting SABI work, while maintaining accountability for the quality and analytical rigor of assigned outputs.
• Global Stewardship: Maintain a global mindset with an objective and long-term view of stakeholder needs across all CSM functions, balancing responsiveness to Sr. Director requests with SABI’s focus on high-impact, analytically complex work.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in Finance, Analytics, Business, or related quantitative field preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience in business analytics, strategy, or a related client-facing analytical role, ideally within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare. 5+ years of relevant experience for advanced degree holders (e.g. PhD, MD, PharmD)
• Demonstrated experience managing senior stakeholder relationships (Director/Sr. Director level or above), including delivering findings and recommendations to executive audiences
• Strong analytical and strategic decision-support skills, with the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into structured, data-driven analyses
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to distill complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences
• Experience with data analytics/visualization tools (e.g., SQL, Power BI, Excel)
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams independently, across more than one therapeutic area or stakeholder group, with sound judgment on prioritization and escalation
• Familiarity with clinical trial operations, drug development, or R&D processes
• Experience supporting multiple therapeutic areas or portfolios concurrently

Preferred

• Prior people-management or mentoring experience
• Working knowledge of AbbVie systems and organizational structure

Additional Information

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

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Companybelieves ingood faith it will pay for this role at the timeof this posting based on the job grade for this position.Individualcompensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, andwemayultimatelypaymore or less than the posted range. This range may bemodifiedin thefuture.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick),medical/dental/visioninsurance and 401(k) to eligibleemployees.
• This job is eligible toparticipatein our long-term incentiveprograms.

Note: No amount of payis considered to bewages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, anddeterminable.The amount and availability of any bonus,commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form ofcompensation and benefitsthat are allocable to a particular employeeremainsin the Company's sole and absolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable 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.