Senior Sales Analyst, Incentive Compensation

AbbVie; Mettawa (IL); On-site; USD 80,500 - 153,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Paid time off

Short-term incentive programs

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking a Senior Sales Analyst for their Incentive Compensation team in Mettawa, Illinois. The candidate will be responsible for designing and managing sales incentive programs that align with business objectives. This role requires expertise in data analysis, understanding sales operations, and excellent communication abilities. A BA/BS degree and 2-4 years of relevant experience are essential. The position offers a competitive salary range from $80,500 to $153,000 and opportunities for growth within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent experience, advanced degree preferred.
• 2-4 years of previous work experience in sales compensation, sales operations, or analytics.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage sales incentive programs aligned with business strategies.
• Analyze incentive compensation results and identify areas for improvement.
• Create communication materials for leadership regarding incentive programs.

Skills

Sales compensation knowledge

Data analysis skills

Influencing skills

Presentation skills

Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Education

BA/BS degree

Advanced degree (preferred)

2-4 years of experience in sales compensation or analytics

Job description

Company Description

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 – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Senior Sales Analyst, Incentive Compensation (IC), Migraine and Psych is responsible for playing a key role in developing and managing a motivational sales incentive program throughout the Migraine and Psych organization that is aligned to each business\'s strategic objectives. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, modeling compensation plans, running and validating supportive analyses, creating compensation programs that align with business strategies, and ensuring accuracy in all deliverables to internal and external colleagues. Respond timely and accurately to field sales inquiries and work closely with sales and marketing teams and all internal departments. Develop communications including Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel files.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consulting
• Responsibilities include planning, design, analysis, implementation, communications, administration, and validation of all sales incentive programs inclusive of contest and kickers.
• Develop incentive programs based on identified marketing and commercial strategies, available resources, and overarching incentive program design.
• Provide guidance, and support in the development of special incentives.
• Aid in managing and working closely with compensation processing vendor including project management, incentive validation, change implementation and reporting. Individual works closely with field sales, sales management, marketing, marketing analytics and business insights, forecasting, sales reporting, and Executive Leadership in all aspects of field incentives to ensure program elements are aligned with corporate objectives, the programs are fair, equitable, motivating, and valid.
• Leads field sales Recognition program including budget administration and communication. Works closely with the Recognition program vendor to ensure the program requirements and timelines are adhered to and are accurate.
• Work closely with the reporting team to understand and assist with data reporting needs.
• Ensure that upcoming franchise-specific changes are communicated in a timely manner to the outside vendor team.
• Validate and approve franchise-specific results from ongoing operations (attainments, payouts, eligibility, etc.).

Analytics

• Individual must proactively perform regular analysis of IC results to proactively identify areas of improvement and opportunity for increased motivational value. Must analyze impact of changes in franchise-specific sales trends and how market events and overall strategies may impact performance and IC results. Individual will host field sales taskforce meetings/office hours to continually discuss, analyze and refine programs to reinforce desired behavior.
• Support in the administration of sales incentives such as Summit and SPIFFs and creates and develops reports for these programs. Ability to analyze programs.
• Develop reporting, analysis and insights which guide business decision making.
• Provide direct support to Leadership and field personnel to respond to incentive questions and perform investigations.

Communication

• Develop communication materials for Leadership that effectively communicates the incentive program in a clear, motivational way.
• Leading New Hire Training
• Weekly/Monthly field communications on IC data posting

Qualifications

Education

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent experience, advanced degree preferred
• 2-4 years of previous work experience in sales compensation, sales operations, or analytics

Background

• Collaborates and can influence without authority working across organizations.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Confidence in providing subject matter expertise to Stakeholders
• Understanding of field sales activities, roles, and behaviors preferred.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel.
• Ability to clearly and confidently articulate complex and difficult concepts.
• Ability to develop and deliver training and communications.
• Public speaking ability addressing groups of a few to several hundred.
• Excellent business acumen, understanding of basic corporate finance and financial analysis concepts.
• Understanding and experience working directly with pharmaceutical sales data sources.
• Ability to rapidly apply mathematical concepts to assess and respond to verbal questions or proposals.
• Ability to thrive in a team and matrixed environment.
• Ability to develop and execute innovative, creative solutions.
• Exceptional process, project, and resource management skills with consistent ability to meet and exceed agreed upon timelines.
• Organizationally savvy.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Results oriented.

Travel

• Up to 15%

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 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.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie\'s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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Travel: Yes, 15% of the Time

Salary: $80,500 - $153,000