National Manager, Oncology Nurse Educator Field Strategy & Execution

AbbVie Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 139,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie seeks a National Manager, Oncology Nurse Educator Field Strategy & Execution to translate brand priorities into actionable field plans across three hematology franchises. You will partner with Brand, Sales, Training, Analytics, and Medical teams to shape portfolio nursing strategy and develop tools that enable high-quality education for healthcare professionals.

The role emphasizes leading through influence in a matrixed environment, driving cross-functional alignment, and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; nursing, healthcare, business, or life sciences preferred.
• 5+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech, or related industry experience; oncology/hematology strongly preferred.
• Previous field leadership, sales leadership, field operations, commercial strategy, or field effectiveness experience preferred.
• Clinical & Industry Expertise: Strong clinical patient management experience, oncology clinical acumen and understanding of hematology/oncology treatment.
• Strategic & Business Acumen: Translate strategy into focused field execution; understand customer and account dynamics; use data and insights to prioritize resources.
• Influence & Collaboration: Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively across cross-functional teams.
• Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-building skills.
• Judgment & Agility: Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities and lead effectively through ambiguity and change.
• Talent & Growth Mindset: Demonstrated commitment to developing others and continuously expanding personal and organizational capability; ability and desire to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
• Compliance & Integrity: Demonstrated understanding of pharmaceutical compliance and regulatory requirements and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries between clinical education and promotional activity.
• Project Management Excellence: Strong project management, prioritization, and execution skills with a demonstrated sense of urgency.

Responsibilities

• Drive Portfolio Education Strategy & Execution across three hematology franchises.
• Support National Director in creation of portfolio above brand nursing strategy and tactics to support HCP/nurse education of disease and therapy management before, during, and after therapy.
• Lead Through Influence: Build alignment and drive decisions across cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority; navigate competing priorities with strong judgment, credibility, and organizational savvy.
• Optimize Field Operations: Partner with Field Operations to ensure ONE has effective tools, processes, systems, reporting, training, and infrastructure to execute efficiently and compliantly.
• Advocate for ONE: Represent the voice, needs, and value of the ONE organization in cross-functional planning; build compelling business cases for appropriate resources, capabilities, and support.
• Enable Field Performance: Identify emerging field needs, barriers, and opportunities and rapidly mobilize resources and partners to address them.
• Leverage Insights & Analytics: Use field data, customer insights, and performance trends to identify opportunities, inform priorities, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Lead Strategic Initiatives: Own complex, cross-functional projects from strategy through implementation, managing priorities, dependencies, timelines, risks, and stakeholder accountability.
• Strengthen Communication & Engagement: Develop clear, compelling communications and executive presentations that create alignment, reinforce priorities, and keep the ONE and other in-field partners informed and engaged.
• Advance Innovation & Technology: Identify and implement opportunities to use technology, automation, analytics, and AI to improve ONE effectiveness, productivity, and scalability.
• Ensure Operational & Compliance Excellence: Partner with Legal, Compliance, and relevant stakeholders to ensure ONE activities, processes, and resources meet AbbVie standards and requirements. Explore benchmarking against other ONE networks to continuously evolve ways of working.
• Continuously Improve: Benchmark and evolve ONE ways of working, capabilities, and infrastructure to support a high-performing, scalable national organization.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Strategic thinking

Influence without authority

Communication

Judgment & adaptability

Talent development

Compliance & integrity

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

National Manager, Oncology Nurse Educator Field Strategy & Execution

• Full-time
• Salary Min: 139000
• Therapy Area: Oncology
• Salary Max: 250500
• Workday Global Grade: 19
• Compensation: USD 139,000 - USD 250,500 - yearly

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.

The National Portfolio Manager is a strategic partner to the National Lead, Oncology Nurse Educator (ONE) field team, responsible for development and support of portfolio nursing strategy and tactical plan and translating brand and portfolio strategies into effective field execution and ensuring the ONE organization has the tools, resources, processes, and cross-functional alignment needed to perform at a high level.

This role works across three hematology franchises and serves as a key connector between ONE, Brand, Sales, Field Operations, Field Force Effectiveness, Analytics, Training, Medical, and other enterprise partners. This role leads through influence in a highly matrixed environment, balancing portfolio priorities with the unique needs of each franchise while leading above brand portfolio nursing strategy for AbbVie Oncology Hematology portfolio products and customers it serves.

This position will not have external customer responsibilities but is expected to use previous external customer experience to help maximize performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Portfolio Education Strategy & Execution: Translate oncology portfolio and brand priorities into clear ONE field priorities, plans, milestones, and execution requirements across three franchises.
• Support and Direct Creation of Portfolio Nurse Education Strategy: Support National Director in creation of portfolio above brand nursing strategy and tactics to support HCP/nurse education of disease and therapy management before, during, and after therapy.
• Lead Through Influence:Build alignment and drive decisions across cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority; navigate competing priorities with strong judgment, credibility, and organizational savvy.
• Optimize Field Operations:Partner with Field Operations to ensure ONE has effective tools, processes, systems, reporting, training, and infrastructure to execute efficiently and compliantly.
• Advocate for ONE:Represent the voice, needs, and value of the ONE organization in cross-functional planning; build compelling business cases for appropriate resources, capabilities, and support.
• Enable Field Performance:Identify emerging field needs, barriers, and opportunities and rapidly mobilize resources and partners to address them.
• Leverage Insights & Analytics:Use field data, customer insights, and performance trends to identify opportunities, inform priorities, and translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• Lead Strategic Initiatives:Own complex, cross-functional projects from strategy through implementation, managing priorities, dependencies, timelines, risks, and stakeholder accountability.
• Strengthen Communication & Engagement:Develop clear, compelling communications and executive presentations that create alignment, reinforce priorities, and keep the ONE and other in-field partners informed and engaged.
• Advance Innovation & Technology:Identify and implement opportunities to use technology, automation, analytics, and AI to improve ONE effectiveness, productivity, and scalability.
• Ensure Operational & Compliance Excellence:Partner with Legal, Compliance, and relevant stakeholders to ensure ONE activities, processes, and resources meet AbbVie standards and requirements. Explore benchmarking against other ONE networks to continuously evolve ways of working.
• Continuously Improve:Benchmark and evolve ONE ways of working, capabilities, and infrastructure to support a high-performing, scalable national organization.
• Bachelor’s degree required; nursing, healthcare, business, or life sciences preferred.
• 5+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotech, or related industry experience; oncology/hematology strongly preferred.
• Previous field leadership, sales leadership, field operations, commercial strategy, or field effectiveness experience preferred.
• Clinical & Industry Expertise:Strong clinical patient management experience, oncology clinical acumen and understanding of hematology/oncology treatment, nursing practice, healthcare environments, and the pharmaceutical industry.
• Strategic & Business Acumen:Ability to translate strategy into focused field execution; understand customer and account dynamics; use data and insights to prioritize resources and make sound business decisions.
• Influence & Collaboration:Proven ability to influence without authority and lead effectively across cross-functional teams and organizational levels. Demonstrated track record of delivering results, building trusted relationships, and operating with an enterprise mindset.
• Communication:Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to translate complex clinical and business information into clear, actionable messages.
• Judgment & Agility:Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities and lead effectively through ambiguity and change.
• Talent & Growth Mindset:Demonstrated commitment to developing others and continuously expanding personal and organizational capability; ability and desire to grow into broader leadership responsibilities.
• Compliance & Integrity:Demonstrated understanding of pharmaceutical compliance and regulatory requirements and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries between clinical education and promotional activity.
• Project Management Excellence: Strong project management, prioritization, and execution skills with a demonstrated sense of urgency. Proficiency with technology, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities to improve business effectiveness.

Additional Requirements:

• Travel: up to 30%-50%, depending on residence location. Located in the US, preferably near a metropolitan airport.
• Required to satisfy all applicable health care industry credentialing requirements to gain & maintain entry into facilities and organizations. These HCIR credentialing requirements may include, but are not limited to, background checks, drug screens, proof of immunization/vaccination for various diseases, fingerprinting & specific licenses required by states or cities.

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• 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 employeeremains in 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.

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