Associate Director, Commercial Data Strategy

AbbVie; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

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

You will partner with IT, Data Engineering, and business stakeholders to define priorities, govern data assets, and accelerate speed-to-insight with scalable data products and semantic models.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
• 10+ years in data strategy, data product management, analytics, BI, or tech transformation.
• Experience defining and executing enterprise data strategies and data products.
• Strong governance, metadata, semantic models, metrics, and data quality.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake) and AI-ready ecosystems.
• Pharmaceutical/Healthcare regulatory domain experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define the roadmap for commercial data capabilities supporting reporting, analytics, operations, and AI initiatives.
• Lead end-to-end onboarding of new data sources, assets, and platforms with scalable playbooks.
• Act as the business product owner for domain data, partner with BTS to define requirements and roadmaps.
• Manage complex, matrixed programs across Business, IT, Legal, and Compliance.
• Partner with Governance to embed metadata, rules, and data quality in onboarding.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities and manage relationships with data providers and partners.
• Define enablement models to drive adoption and cross-functional usage of data assets.

Skills

Data strategy

Data product management

Analytics

Governance

Cross-functional leadership

AI-ready data ecosystems

Snowflake

Education

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

Tools

Snowflake

Job 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.

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

The Associate Director, Commercial Data Strategy plays 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 leader is responsible for driving 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 to establish reusable semantic models, governed metrics, business metadata standards, and enterprise-ready data products that increase speed-to-insight across the U.S. Commercial organization.

• 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, or a 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.

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 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.

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.

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