Director, Immunology Public Affairs- Dermatology

AbbVie; Mettawa (IL); Vor Ort; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Zusammenfassung

AbbVie is seeking a Director, Immunology Public Affairs to lead integrated communications for a broad immunology portfolio, including dermatology. You will advise senior leaders, shape external messaging and manage stakeholder relationships to strengthen corporate reputation and trust.

The role requires a strategic thinker with deep media, patient advocacy and cross-functional collaboration experience, guiding campaigns across internal and external teams to achieve business objectives.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree required; emphasis on communications, public relations, marketing, business, journalism or equivalent preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in public relations, with pharma or agency background preferred.
• Proven ability to develop and execute strategic communications programs that drive measurable business impact.
• Experience with traditional and emerging media on topics from data milestones to patient stories.
• Strong communication planning, execution and relationship-building with AbbVie leaders and external stakeholders.

Aufgaben

• Lead integrated public affairs strategies for AbbVie's immunology portfolio, emphasizing differentiation and reputation.
• Translate business priorities and stakeholder insights into creative, business-driven communications.
• Counsel senior leaders to influence critical decisions and protect reputation.
• Collaborate with dermatology and aesthetics teams, driving cross-functional alignment.
• Build and sustain relationships with patient advocates, influencers and external stakeholders.
• Oversee agency partnerships and budget management for communications programs.

Kenntnisse

Public relations

Strategic communications

Media relations

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Crisis management

People leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or related field

Jobbeschreibung

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

Overview

The Director, Immunology Public Affairs leads the development and execution of integrated public affairs strategies across AbbVie’s most expansive immunology portfolio - dermatology. This role serves as a strategic counselor to senior business and cross-functional leaders, translating business priorities, stakeholder insights and the external environment into creative communications that strengthen competitive differentiation, corporate reputation and stakeholder trust. The Director brings strong business acumen, sound judgment, creative thinking and deep expertise in earned media and influencer relations while managing a broad range of internal and external stakeholders. This role reports to the Head, Immunology Public Affairs and will have one direct report.

Responsibilities include

• Drive high-impact public affairs programs to advance the growing dermatology portfolio’s business objectives with emphasis on competitive differentiation and corporate reputation.
• Analyze the communications environment, identify trends, opportunities and risks, while translating those insights into strategic objectives, creative content and informed business decisions.
• Provide strategic counsel to influence critical decisions through informed perspective on the external environment. Anticipate and mitigate external issues to protect reputation and business performance.
• Participate in relevant dermatology integrated business teams, providing public affairs communications perspective, strategic counsel and influence.
• Create intentional connections across the immunology dermatology and aesthetics dermatology businesses to find synergies, key learnings and optimizations to strengthen communications output with an enterprise mindset.
• Partner closely with R&D communications and relevant pipeline commercialization strategy team to ensure sound, consistent and strategic messaging across on-market and pipeline dermatology assets that support a broader, enterprise narrative
• Interface with media proactively and reactively as AbbVie corporate spokesperson on dermatology portfolio milestones, data and other relevant news.
• Build and manage relationships with internal and third-party spokespeople and prepare them for compelling external speaking opportunities.
• Develop and sustain trusted relationships on behalf of AbbVie with patient advocates, influencers and other external stakeholders.
• Champion new ideas, emerging channels and best practices that elevate Corporate Affairs, strengthen audience engagement and improve the impact of public affairs programs.
• Establish clear objectives and measures of success for public affairs strategies, use performance insights to optimize programs and communicate results and business impact to senior leaders.
• Lead work with sound judgment and a strong commitment to AbbVie standards, ensuring communications are accurate, compliant and aligned across relevant business, medical, legal, regulatory and corporate stakeholders.
• Support broader, pan-immunology leadership communications and programming that expands beyond the dermatology portfolio.
• Manage agencies and associated program budgets that support communications programming.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required – emphasis on communications, public relations, marketing, business, journalism or equivalent is preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in public relations. Preferred experience at a public relations agency and/or pharmaceutical in-house communications position with increasing responsibility, or similar roles in regulated industries.
• Expertise in developing and executing strategic communications programs that are creative, insight-driven and deliver measurable business impact.
• Proven track record of working with traditional and emerging news media on a variety of topics from data and milestones to high-profile patient profile stories
• Strong communication planning, execution and process management skills and strong interpersonal skills to quickly build rapport and credibility with AbbVie leaders as well as key internal and external stakeholders, including academic experts, patients and patient advocates, with confidence, empathy and ease.
• Business acumen to appropriately frame the why and contextualize communications priorities that strategically align with business priorities
• Scientific acumen to understand complex concepts and translate for target audiences and channels
• Ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team and navigate a highly matrixed organization using influence/negotiation and relationship management skills
• Proven experience in issues/crisis management, preferred.
• Experience leading high-performing teams, preferred

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• 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.

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