Associate Director, Portfolio Insights – Neuroscience

AbbVie; South San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking an Associate Director, Portfolio Insights – Neuroscience TA, to lead analytics and coordinate inputs across functions for portfolio decisions. You will present recommendations to TA leadership and mentor teams in valuation, scenario analysis, and decision support.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, enterprise thinking, and advancing analytics with modernized approaches, including AI/ML, to drive better drug development decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in scientific or business field required; MBA and PhD in scientific field preferred.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Experience communicating complex analyses to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact recommendations on project value, trade-offs and scenarios to senior leadership.
• Identify opportunities where valuation and economic analysis improve asset strategy decisions.
• Build value metrics (e.g., raNPV, PI) and scenario analyses to guide drug development decisions.
• Coach team members on valuations and data-driven decision-making.
• Engage with stakeholders to drive linkages and stress-test inputs.
• Support Portfolio Insights processes including R&D planning, prioritization and productivity.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Communication (oral & written)

Project management

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree (scientific or business)

MBA

PhD

Job description

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 141500
• Salary Max: 268500
• Workday Global Grade: 20
• Compensation: USD 141,500 - USD 268,500 - yearly

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 Portfolio Insights team is responsible for enabling AbbVie to make data-driven decisions on portfolio choices both within and across Therapeutic Areas (TAs). Portfolio Insights TA leads provide analytics and recommendations to drive better decision-making across the internal portfolio and BD opportunities on a project and TA-level.

The Associate Director, Portfolio Insights – Neuroscience TA lead acts as the voice of Portfolio Insights for their Therapeutic Areas. They will be responsible for presenting and defending recommendations for Therapeutic Area leadership and driving the analytics and co-ordination of inputs across functions to deliver high quality insights.
Responsibilities:

Deliver high-impact recommendations for their Therapeutic Areas on project value, trade-offs and scenarios to senior leadership within TAs and in AbbVie governance forums.

Proactively identify opportunities where valuation and economic analysis can drive higher quality decision making for asset strategy teams and TAs.

Build value metrics (e.g., raNPV, PI) and any required scenario analysis to drive effective drug development decisions, working with ASLs (asset strategy leaders), Search & Evaluation (S&E), program managers, pipeline commercial leads, forecasting teams and others.

Coach team members on valuations, economic analysis and best practices for data-driven decision-making.

Provide an unbiased assessment of PTRS (probability of technical and regulatory success) for drug development projects, working with clinical development and regulatory teams.

Recommend TA-level prioritization of projects within their therapeutic areas, working with TA leadership and members of the portfolio insights team.

Support on key business processes facilitated by the Portfolio Insights team as the voice of their Therapeutic Areas (including R&D Plan, Financial LRP, Quarterly Portfolio Prioritization, R&D Productivity).

Engage effectively with functional stakeholders (e.g., Finance, PPM) to drive appropriate linkages and constructively pressure testing assumptions/ inputs

Work on continuous improvement efforts within Portfolio Insights to improve the team’s ability to act as proactive strategic advisors that leverage modernized approaches (including AI/ML based predictive solutions) to drive better-decision making for the Portfolio.

Conduct ad-hoc short-term analyses or strategic projects at leadership request

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in scientific or business field required; MBAand PhD in scientific field preferred
• 7-10 years of experience with multi-faceted, broad based understanding of Pharma R&D business processes, investment stage gating and commercial processes; fewer years can be considered if candidate has advanced degrees (MBA, PhD)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to details
• Experience with multi-faceted, broad based understanding of Pharma R&D business processes, investment stage gating and commercial processes
• Demonstrated experience working in fast paced settings, with a proven track record of delivering high quality and insightful analyses
• Effective oral and written communication skills with proven ability to tailor analytical outputs to different audiences
• Strong presence in meetings with willingness to navigate different functional perspectives and push for “enterprise thinking”
• Strong organizational and project management skills commensurate with conducting multiple sophisticated analyses across several assets
• Prior experience in Management Consulting and track record of experience in R&D Strategy / Portfolio prioritization projects a plus
• This role is hybrid requiring at least three (3) days onsite, Tuesday through Thursdayin our AbbVie offices - North Chicago, IL or South San Francisco, CA.
• This role requires up to ~20% travel.

Key Stakeholders:

• PPM (program and portfolio management), ASL (Asset strategy leadership), Pipeline Commercialization, Clinical Development, Regulatory, R&D Finance, Commercial Finance, R&D Strategic Resourcing, Commercial Business Units, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, Innovation, Transformation, Statistics, TA Strategy.

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.

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.