Associate Director, Franchise Strategic Planning and Operations - Oncology

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 . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

Job Description

The Associate Director, Franchise Strategic Planning and Operations serves as a strategic partner to the Franchise Vice President and leadership team, enabling effective governance, execution, and cross-functional alignment across the franchise. This role supports enterprise-level planning, prioritization, and decision-making by driving key business processes, coordinating leadership forums, and ensuring disciplined follow-through on strategic and operational initiatives. The position plays a critical role in translating franchise strategy into coordinated action, improving organizational effectiveness, and advancing business priorities across internal stakeholders and external interface.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor and operational partner to the Franchise Vice President, helping shape priorities, manage complexity, and improve leadership team effectiveness.
• Lead franchise business planning, including short- and long-range strategic planning, annual communications plan, investor relations requirements, and deliverables to AbbVie Oncology portfolio team
• Design and coordinate strategic planning sessions, leadership meetings, and governance forums; prepare agendas, materials, action tracking, and decision logs to ensure clear accountability and follow-through.
• Coordinate leadership team governance structure and content and develop staff agendas to support effective decision-making and seamless execution across the franchise.
• Oversee critical cross-functional initiatives and special projects, ensuring progress against milestones, risk mitigation, and escalation of issues as needed.
• Partner with functional leaders to develop and execute internal communications, franchise town halls, and culture-building efforts that reinforce strategic priorities and employee engagement.
• Support the Vice President in preparing for and coordinating leadership alignment meetings and other enterprise governance interactions to ensure cohesive messaging and efficient decision-making.
• Monitor key milestones, risks, dependencies, and decisions across the franchise; establish transparent operating rhythms and reporting to support accountability and execution discipline.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years’ sales leadership, marketing or other relevant in-house experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree required. Preferred MBA or Master’s Degree
• Advanced project management and communication skills.
• Working knowledge of the market including trends and issues as they relate to AbbVie.
• Thrives in fast-paced environments.
• Able to manage multiple, simultaneous projects with moderate-high complexity, often under a tight deadline.
• Works well with cross-functional stakeholders and can own projects from idea phase to implementation, adapting and iterating as needed.
• Outcomes-focused with a high degree of attention to detail.
• Demonstrated relationship management, interpersonal skills, ability to motivate, lead, influence, and engage without direct authority.
• Sound, logical problem solving and decision making 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 Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of thisposting 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 anduntil 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 and serving our community.  Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. 

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