Head of Global Fillers and Regenerative Injectables PCS

Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie Company; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

A leading healthcare company seeks a Head of Fillers and Regenerative Injectables to shape the strategic vision for its product portfolio. The role involves leading a high-performing team, developing market strategies, and ensuring successful product launches. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in the pharmaceuticals or medical device sectors, proven leadership abilities, and strong strategic thinking skills. This is a full-time position based in Irvine, California, offering competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals or medical devices.
• Strong communicator with excellent oral and written skills.
• Proven ability to lead diverse teams and drive results.
• Minimum of 10 years’ people leadership experience.
• Global experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Shape strategic vision for the injectables portfolio.
• Lead a team to develop category strategies.
• Ensure robust early commercial planning for new products.
• Collaborate across functions to drive results.
• Develops cross-functional relationships with R&D, regulatory, medical affairs, and marketing leaders.
• Aligns priorities across functions and regions to optimize the global business.
• Ensures robust cross-functional alignment on strategy and inputs into portfolio programs.
• Maintains understanding of competitor insights and implications for facial injectables.
• Supports agile strategy adaptation as insights evolve.
• Develops rigorous forecasts and LRPs; manages budget with Finance.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical expertise

Understanding scientific data

Communication

Executive influence

Adaptability

Education

Undergraduate degree

MBA or PhD in relevant field

Job description

About AbbVie

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Head of Fillers and Regenerative Injectables PCS (Pipeline Commercialization & Strategy) is responsible for shaping the integrated strategic vision, direction and implementation for the hyaluronic acid, biostimulatory, and regenerative injectables portfolio. The individual is responsible for all aspects of the new product pipeline and overall strategy for the Allergan Aesthetics Fillers & Regenerative Injectables portfolio to help support our long‑term leadership of the category through innovation and category expansion.

This individual will lead a team to develop and deliver against a pipeline strategy that contributes business growth, drives category leadership, and optimizes the portfolio value. This includes building a deep understanding of the global market landscape, trends, customer and consumer needs, and creating a plan to address gaps through internal and external innovation. They will provide the strategic oversight and guidance to manage the interdependencies and learnings across our injectables franchises to maximize the success of our pipeline.

The role demands strong leadership and close collaboration with global, cross‑functional colleagues, including R&D, Operations, US and International Consumer and Customer Marketing, and Area and Affiliate level delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Acts as the accountable commercial owner of the global fillers & regenerative injectables pipeline and franchise strategy
• Builds and leads a high‑performing team to gather key global commercial insights—based on market research, competitive intelligence, KOL perspectives and internal insights—to deliver a robust portfolio strategy
• Supports their team to identify opportunities for growth via new product introduction and portfolio optimization—creating a unified internal and external innovation strategy
• Responsible for ensuring robust early commercial planning and smooth transition of pipeline programs to downstream execution teams
• Develops close working relationship with leaders across R&D, regulatory/legal, medical affairs, market research, operations, marketing and key opinion leaders; bringing together the best of the business to drive results in a heavily matrixed, fast‑paced environment
• Navigates competing priorities across functions and regions to align on the best path forward for the overall global fillers & regenerative injectables business
• Ensures strong cross‑functional and leadership alignment on the strategy and key commercial inputs into the associated pipeline programs
• Maintains robust understanding of competitor insights and associated implications for the Allergan Aesthetics facial injectables portfolio
• Supports agile decision making to adapt strategy as needed based on evolving insights and pipeline developments
• Maintains accountability for the development of rigorous forecasts to support portfolio optimisation and business decision making, and a rigorous LRP submission
• Owns budget and proactively partner with Finance to ensure timely review of and management of financial resources

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree within a relevant course of study
• MBA, PhD, or other advanced degree in a relevant field (e.g., Medicine, Sciences, etc.) strongly preferred
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in pharmaceuticals or medical devices, with experience in medical aesthetics strongly preferred
• Minimum of 10 years’ people leadership experience
• Global experience strongly preferred
• Experienced and comfortable working in a highly matrixed organization
• Strong strategic thinking, with a proven ability to develop robust strategies and support sound decision making based on drawing together disparate insights
• Demonstrated track record of leading a diverse team through a compelling shared vision, nurturing and developing key talent
• Proven ability to collaborate and work cross‑functionally, leveraging strong interpersonal skills to successfully driven consensus in a matrixed organization
• Strong analytical expertise
• Ability to understand scientific data and biologic mechanisms, and compellingly communicate to different internal and external audiences
• Able to pivot appropriately from high level strategic decisions with less than perfect information, to detail orientation and tactical execution
• Highly agile and adaptable, with an ability to adapt strategy as information evolves
• Robust understanding and experience of different stages of the product life cycle, including product launch
• Strong communicator, with excellent oral, written, and presentation skills; proven ability to interact directly with and influence Senior Management and global thought leaders in aesthetics

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 short‑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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