Marketing Automation Senior Specialist - HCP

AbbVie Inc.; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Marketing Automation Senior Specialist to drive high-complexity 1:1 marketing programs within the AbbVie Digital Lab.

You will own end-to-end campaign builds, oversee QA, and lead a team to deliver high-impact omnichannel experiences for Healthcare Professionals. You will collaborate with Brand Marketing, Strategy, and Marketing Analytics to optimize targeting, personalization, and journey orchestration while maintaining quality and on-time delivery in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience.
• 5–8 years of experience in database marketing, CRM, email, digital, direct mail, marketing automation, or 1:1 marketing.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience creating campaigns in enterprise-level marketing automation platforms with Marketo/OC experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build, QC, and execute high-complexity omnichannel campaigns with journeys and triggers.
• Lead and coach team members; manage workload and onboarding.
• Optimize deliverability and monitor email performance across domains.
• Collaborate with Brand Marketing, Analytics, and Tech teams on campaigns.

Skills

Marketing automation

People management

Campaign orchestration

SQL

HTML/CSS

Marketo Engage

Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Adobe Journey Optimizer

Adobe Campaign

Job description

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 Marketing Automation Senior Specialist is part of the AbbVie Digital Lab and will be responsible for playing an integral part of the team building Healthcare Professional (HCP) 1:1 marketing programs. The role combines ownership of high-complexity campaign work with formal people leadership, technical oversight, and cross-functional partnership.

Responsibilities include:

• Build, QC, and execute high-complexity brand omnichannel programs. This includes building journeys (base cadences) and highly complex trigger programs that deliver the right message to the right person at the right time through the right channel.
• Ensure high-quality, on-time, and error-free implementation, testing, and QA of campaigns within the marketing automation platform. Create, review, and share standard quality-control documents and follow the process to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Lead and manage assigned team members, including day-to-day work allocation and prioritization, coaching, performance management, development planning, onboarding, and quality oversight. Maintain a focused campaign workload that allows appropriate attention to people leadership and team delivery.
• Monitor email deliverability across domains for all brand campaigns implemented. Provide recommendations on how to optimize deliverability, resolve IP reputation issues, and ensure proper inbox placement.
• Identify issues, determine root cause, and recommend corrective action for campaign builds, data and audience logic, IP reputation, deliverability, and operational processes.
• Participate in and lead agile delivery activities such as design, build, QA, and continuous improvement. Maintain documents per department document-management policies and procedures.
• Influence and implement capabilities including targeting, personalization, audience segmentation, journey orchestration, and dynamic content to deliver the best customer experience. Build and execute test plans, identify winners, and proactively recommend optimization opportunities that improve deliverability, reach, and engagement.
• Lead internal and external partners to define, execute, and optimize email, direct mail, media, and omnichannel campaigns. Lead or contribute to team innovations, cross-functional projects, and scalable process improvements. Partners include Brand Marketing, Strategy, Business Technology Solutions, Marketing Analytics and Business Insights, Creative, Digital Agencies, and other CRM and technology teams.
• Provide exemplary customer service while setting, maintaining, and exceeding stakeholder expectations. Communicate progress, decisions, stakeholder alignment, risks, and business value to the Associate Director and other partners.
• Keep abreast of 1:1 marketing, CRM, email industry best practices, and new technology through professional organizations, seminars, and conferences. Recommend practical applications to the Associate Director.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or equivalent experience.
• 5–8 years of experience in database marketing, CRM, email, digital, direct mail, marketing automation, or 1:1 marketing.
• Minimum of 5 years of hands‑on experience creating campaigns in enterprise-level marketing automation platforms. Strong Adobe Marketo Engage experience is preferred; experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Journey Optimizer, or similar platforms is also valued. Platform certification or equivalent demonstrated enterprise experience is preferred.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, including coaching, performance management, development planning, workload allocation, and onboarding.
• Ability to think strategically with a strong ability to execute plans and exceed stakeholder expectations and project goals.
• Ability to work independently, lead through ambiguity, and make sound decisions with limited day-to-day supervision.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage multiple projects and team priorities simultaneously in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment, assign priorities, balance capacity, and meet delivery dates.
• Strong client service, stakeholder management, and project leadership skills; must be able to communicate effectively with both business and technical individuals.
• Knowledge of database marketing, CRM, journey orchestration, audience segmentation, personalization, email, digital, and 1:1 marketing concepts and best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify root cause and apply learnings.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, SQL, and HTML/CSS.
• Experience with Adobe products preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and coaching skills.

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 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 be wages 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 employeeremains in the Company's sole and absolutediscretion unless and until paid andmay bemodifiedat the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent withapplicable law.

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