Associate Director, Market Research and Analytics - Specialty

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k)

Paid time off

Long-term incentives

Job summary

AbbVie seeks an Associate Director of Marketing Research & Analytics for US Specialty to design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate marketing research initiatives across Hypothyroid franchises for APEX. The role partners with Brand, Medical, and external agencies to inform strategic decisions.

The candidate will derive high-impact learnings from qualitative and quantitative research, behavioral analytics, market intelligence, and internal stakeholder initiatives, influencing

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• ~10 years of relevant marketing research and analytics experience.
• Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data types.

Responsibilities

• Act as an intelligence partner, providing strategic insights and staying current on Hypothyroid franchise issues.
• Identify primary research and analytics opportunities to base decisions on robust insights.
• Lead custom research projects with supplier and stakeholder management.
• Synthesize learning across research, analytics, and market intelligence to shape strategies.
• Communicate market and customer knowledge to internal stakeholders.
• Design and execute measurement plans to assess brand programs and tactics.
• Coordinate monthly program performance assessments driving high impact actions.
• Support data strategy to ensure reliable data assets for agile analytics.
• Develop and communicate actionable insights to improve brand performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to leverage Brand and Market Access intelligence.
• Build strong team relationships and promote career growth.
• Promote proactive communication and psychological safety within the team.
• Present learnings confidently to all levels of the organization.
• Monitor research programs within budget and identify cost-saving opportunities.
• Ensure research activities comply with financial and ethical guidelines.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Presentation skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

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 of Marketing Research & Analytics for US Specialty will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate marketing research and analytics initiatives across Hypothyroid franchises on behalf of APEX. The individual will derive high-impact learnings from qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research, behavioral analytics, market and competitive intelligence, and internal stakeholder initiatives, and partner across APEX verticals as well as with Brand partners, Medical partners and external agencies to inform strategic and tactical decision-making. The ability to influence decisions based upon careful and strategic thinking and understanding of the business is critical to success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as an intelligence partner focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and trends within the Hypothyroid franchise space.


• Proactively identify primary research and analytics opportunities to ensure that decision-making is based on the most current, objective and comprehensive insights across HCPs and patients.


• Be conversant with custom research methods, adept at supplier and stakeholder management, and able to independently lead custom research projects that deliver compelling and actionable learnings.


• Perform thought-provoking and sophisticated syntheses of learning across primary research, analytics, and market intelligence sources to develop actionable insights and recommendations that shape strategies and tactics.


• Maintain organizational knowledge of the market, competitive trends, and industry developments and effectively communicate this knowledge to internal stakeholders.


• Design and execute against measurement plans, inclusive of selected operational and performance indicators, to ensure the organization’s understanding of execution, engagement, and impact of brand programs and tactics.


• Coordinate and manage monthly program performance assessments (i.e. business reviews) on topics that will make the highest impact on the business.


• Help manage data strategy efforts to ensure accurate and reliable data assets are incorporated within agile analytics capability to enable seamless, codeless, visualization-enabled analytics.


• Leverage innovative, sophisticated analytic models that address critical issues, but also meet key business criteria. Be able to effectively communicate the results of these complex analytic models and influence action to improve brand performance.


• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure Brand and Market Access intelligence is leveraged appropriately to inform performance expectations.


• Build solid relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.


• Manage and develop direct reports, identifying opportunities for growth over time. Understand where and how to appropriately expose direct reports to Leadership to both accelerate their career growth and maximize team efficiency across meetings.


• Promote a culture of proactive communication, appreciation of diverse points of view, and recognition to facilitate psychological safety across the team.


• Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.


• Monitor and manage research and analytics programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.


• Ensure all research and analytics activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.

Qualifications

• BA or BS degree (or US equivalent) required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred.


• ~10 years relevant marketing research and/or analytics experience required.


• Experience in pharmaceutical industry and pharmaceutical data (physician-level prescribing, institutional sales data, payer-prescriber-level data, formulary data, patient-level data, etc.) required.


• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, strong business acumen, superior organizational skills, meticulous attention to detail, and creativity in problem-solving.


• Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization.


• Proven experience as an integral member of a high-performing work team.


• Experience with and strong aptitude navigating a heavily matrixed and fast-paced environment.


• Strong leadership skills and the ability to collaborate effectively cross-functionally within the organization and with external agencies.


• Demonstrated project management skills.

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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