Associate Director, Market Research - Dermatology

Allergan; Lincoln (NE); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Director of Market Research to lead initiatives in the dermatology sector. This role involves designing and managing market research projects, collaborating with stakeholders, and providing strategic insights to drive decision-making. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in market research, strong analytical skills, and the ability to influence across all levels of the organization. Join a dynamic team that values creativity and strategic thinking while making a significant impact in the biopharmaceutical industry.

Benefits

Paid Time Off

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k)

Short-term Incentive Programs

Long-term Incentive Programs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant market research experience required.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

Responsibilities

• Act as intelligence partner across Marketing and Leadership.
• Lead custom research projects that deliver actionable insights.

Skills

Market Research

Analytical Reasoning

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced Degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD)

Job description

Company Description

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. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us atwww.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie onX,Facebook,Instagram,YouTube,LinkedInandTik Tok.

Job Description

The Marketing Analytics and Business Insights (MABI) 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 & Analytics organization within the biopharmaceutical industry. We serve as strategic in-house advisor and 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.

The Associate Director of Market Research for Rinvoq Dermatology in Immunology will design, implement, manage, analyze, and effectively communicate market research initiatives across Atopic Derm, Vitiligo & Alopecia. The individual will drive high-impact learnings from qualitative and quantitative primary and secondary research, and internal stakeholder initiatives, and partner with Brand 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 intelligence partner across Marketing and Leadership, focused on providing strategic insights, forming a trusted relationship, and staying abreast of commercial issues and burgeoning trends within the space.
• 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 market research, analytics, and competitive 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.
• Build solid relationships as a team player, while maintaining objectivity and lack of bias to represent the voice of the customer.
• Demonstrate thoughtful confidence in presentation of learnings across all levels of the organization.
• Manage and develop direct reports, with opportunity for team 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.
• Appropriately manage and collaborate with research suppliers.
• Monitor and manage research programs within budget and identify opportunities for cost savings where appropriate.
• Ensure all activities are conducted in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.
• This role requires operation within our hybrid model (3 days in office). We areonlyconsidering talent located within the following location(s): Mettawa, IL.

Qualifications

• BA or BS degree required. Advanced degree (MA, MS, MBA, PhD) preferred.
• 10+ years relevant market research experience required.
• Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industry preferred but not 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

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, andwemay ultimatelypay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in 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 to participate in our short-term incentiveprograms.
• This job is eligible to participate in 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 employee remains in the Company's sole andabsolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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