Associate Director, Commercial Data Strategy

Allergan; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Long-term incentive programs

Paid time off

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking an Associate Director, Commercial Data Strategy to shape data products and analytics enablement across the U.S. Commercial organization.

You will partner with IT, data engineering, and business stakeholders to define priorities, establish reusable semantic models, and ensure governed data assets accelerate insights. You will lead cross-functional programs, drive metadata standards, and manage vendor relationships while delivering scalable, enterprise-ready data products for

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in data strategy, data product management, analytics, business intelligence, or technology transformation.
• Demonstrated experience defining and executing enterprise data strategies, data products, or commercial analytics capabilities.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, semantic models, business metrics, and data quality principles.
• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology organizations.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), self-service analytics, governed data products, and AI-ready data ecosystems.
• Experience within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Healthcare, or other highly regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Commercial Data Strategy: Define and advance the roadmap for commercial data capabilities that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI initiatives.
• Domain Data Onboarding & Integration: Lead the end-to-end onboarding of new data sources, vendor assets, and commercial platforms within assigned data domains.
• Data Product Strategy: Act as the business product owner for domain data, defining data requirements, transformation logic, and roadmaps.
• Cross-Functional Orchestration: Manage complex integration programs across matrixed teams; facilitate prioritization and UAT readiness.
• Embedded Governance & Quality: Partner with Data Governance teams to ensure onboarding adheres to enterprise standards and data quality controls.
• Vendor & Ecosystem Management: Evaluate external vendor capabilities and manage relationships with data providers and partners.
• Enablement, Support, & Adoption: Define operational support models and drive adoption of domain data assets for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

Skills

Data strategy

Data product management

Analytics

Data governance

Stakeholder leadership

Cloud data platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Snowflake

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

TheAssociate Director, Commercial Data Strategyplays a critical role in shaping and advancing AbbVie's commercial data strategy, data products, and analytics enablement capabilities. Operating at the intersection of business strategy, analytics, and technology, this leaderis responsible fordriving the development of scalable, governed, and reusable data assets that accelerate decision-making, support advanced analytics, and enable AI-driven business capabilities.

This individual will partner closely with APEX Enterprise, BTS (IT), Data Engineering, Analytics, and business stakeholders to define data priorities, align enterprise investments, and ensure commercial data assets are easy to discover, understand, access, and activate. Operating with a strong product management mindset, the Associate Director balances strategic vision with execution toestablishreusable semantic models, governed metrics, business metadata standards, and enterprise-ready data products that increase speed-to-insight across the U.S. Commercial organization.

Responsibilities:

• Commercial Data Strategy:Define and advance the roadmap for commercial data capabilities that support reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI initiatives.

• Domain Data Onboarding & Integration:Lead the end-to-end onboarding of new data sources, vendor assets, and commercial platforms within assigned data domains. Develop scalable playbooks and frameworks that drastically reduce time-to-value for new acquisitions.

• Data Product Strategy:Act as the business product owner for domain data. Partner with BTS and Data Engineering to define data requirements, transformation logic, and roadmaps, turning raw data into marketplace-ready, fit-for-purpose data products.

• Cross-Functional Orchestration:Manage complex integration programs across highly matrixed teams (Business, APEX Enterprise, BTS, Legal, and Compliance). Facilitate prioritization, align competing business needs, and oversee source-to-target mapping and UAT readiness.

• Embedded Governance & Quality:Partner with Data Governance teams to ensure all onboarding processes adhere to enterprise standards. Drive the implementation of metadata management, business rules, and data quality controls directly into the onboarding lifecycle.

• Vendor & Ecosystem Management:Evaluate external vendor capabilities and manage ongoing relationships with data providers and implementation partners, ensuring operational readiness and optimized cost structures.

• Enablement, Support, & Adoption:Define the operational support models for onboarded data products. Drive enablement strategies that improve the discoverability, usability, and cross-functional adoption of domain data assets for reporting, analytics, and AI use cases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, ora relateddiscipline.

• 10+ years of experience in data strategy, data product management, analytics, business intelligence, or technology transformation.

• Demonstrated experience defining and executing enterprise data strategies, data products, or commercial analytics capabilities.

• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, semantic models, business metrics, and data quality principles.

• Proven ability to lead complex cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across business and technology organizations.

• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake), self-service analytics, governed data products, and AI-ready data ecosystems.

• Experience within the Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Healthcare, or other highly regulated industries preferred.

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 andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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